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Philanthropic

A. L. Rowse A Devon Family: The Story of the Aclands Anne Acland (Phillimore pp. 192, £7.50) Thousands of biographies are published; family histories are few and far between.......

Prisoners Of The Fleet

Paul Foot The Rise and Fall of the Political Press in Britain: Volume I, The Nineteenth Century Stephen Koss (Hamish Hamilton, pp. 480 £20) One cannot hope to bribe or twist,......