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Life And Times

Monckton Milnes : The Flight of Youth, 1851-1855. By James Pope- Hennessy. (Constable. 25s.). kr is not the easiest task to criticise a book with which the critic, is as much in......

The Pious Lovers

A &IAN of sedate enthusiasm and of prescribed though admirable taste, perhaps a prig and certainly a dilettante, John Evelyn is one of the most problematical of English......

Books Of The Week

Grand Inquest The Struggle for Europe. By Chester Wilmot. (Collins. 25s.) CHESTER Witmor in his Struggle for Europe has produced a masterly book which places the main events of......