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Before And After Babel

James Buchan T HE U NFOLDING OF L ANGUAGE by Guy Deutscher Heinemann, £20, pp. 360, ISBN 0434011355 ✆ £18 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 T he origin of language is one of the......

Viragos On The March

Ian Thomson R ENAISSANCE W OMAN by Gaia Servadio I. B. Tauris, £19.95, pp. 274, ISBN 1850434212 ✆ £17.95 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 L ucrezia Borgia was not the fiend......