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Advent Of A Culture

Ronald Hingley Pushkin: A Biography Henri Troyat (George Allen and Unwin £8.95) Henri Troyat's comprehensive biography of Russia's greatest poet Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)......

A Virtuous Historian

A.L. Rowse Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government. Papers and Reviews 19461972 Two Volumes, G. R. Elton (Cambridge University Press £10.80) Professor Elton is a......