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Himself And Shaw

Shaw. By C. E. M. Joad. (Gollancz. 12s. 6d.) DR. JOAD has an engaging habit of being serious at his own expense, and it is clearly to this habit that we owe the present volume.......

A Georgian Election

TILE Oxfordshire election of 1754 is one of the most famous in English history. It stands beside those in Middlesex in 1768, in Westminster in 1784, in Yorkshire in 1807. Yet it......

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