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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......

Big Bangs

Peter Ackroyd Tear His Head Off His Shoulders Nell Dunn (Jonathan Cape £1.95) Concrete Island J. G. Ballard (Jonathan Cape £1.95) 'Character', the last refuge of the humanist's......