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Scourge Of The Thugs

J. ENOCH POWELL As I write, I see on the shelf in front of me a dumpy book, with covers sun-bleached, worn and gnawed by cockroaches. It is William Sleeman's Rambles and......

Bagehot Right Or Wrong

BOOKS ROBERT BLAKE On his own definition Bagehot was not strictly an historian at all. He observes in his essay on Lord Brougham, published in 1857 when he was thirty-one, that......