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A View Of One's Own

Selected Essays and Addresses. By A. H. Smith. (Blackwell, I 8S.) WARDEN SMITH of New College was an indi- vidualist without arrogance and without vanity. He never sought to......

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The Forrestal Doctrine By GORONWY REES T may well be that when future historians 1 come to describe the political evolution of the world after the Second World War, they will......

Jimsday

This, among the Romans was the raillery of Slaves!—Swift; Hints toward an Essay on Conversation. `PICARESQUE' was the word the reviewers found to describe Amis's Lucky Jim when......