The Career Of Thomas Stamford Raffles Has , Attracted Many
biographers. Charles Wurtz- 'burg spent a lifetime preparing a book on Raffles and his times, and this long and careful study has many claims to be the definitive bio- graphy of......
It Must Be Difficult For Anyone, However Talented, To Write
a light essay about law which does not qualify for the comment that Sir Alan Herbert would have done it better. By aiming at his own favourite targets a special brand of gently......
The Growth Of Papal Government In The Middle Ages. By
Walter Ullmann. (Methuen, 42s.) THE greatest success story of the early Middle . Ages is not that of any secular ruler; not of William the Conqueror or Pepin; not even o the......
British Railway History, 1830-1876. By Hamilton Ellis....
30s.) IT is a curious thought how much of the knotted tangle of the British railway system is due to the, ruthless and often dishonest self-seeking of a few men a century ago;......
Shorter Notices The History Of M. Sartre's Kean Is Curious
and important. The play is a rewriting by Sartre of a • play by Alexandre Dumas pert, in turn a re- writing of a play by Theaulon composed in 1836, and inspired by the career of......
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