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For Better Or Worse

HISTORIANS of social institutions, being mostly Victorians at heart, usually fall into one of two categories. Either, like Canon Demant, they think things are getting worse; or,......

Into Unknown Territory

THE PENGUIN BOOK OF SPANISH VERSE. Introduced and edited by J. M. Cohen. (Penguin Books, Ss.) THAT amorphous body composed, at least at some time in our liyes, of most of us,......