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Books

An egoism of state Hugh Trevor-Roper Venice: The Rise to Empire John Julius Norwich (Allen Lane £7.50) In the seventeenth century, when absolutism was the rule and revolution......

Onegin In His Own Rhyme

Alastair Forbes Eugene Onegin Pushkin Translated by Charles Johnston (Scalar Press £4.50) 'Breeding in a woman, as in a horse, means a lot,' observed Lermontov's Pechorin, that......