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General Rommel

Rommel. By Desmond Young. (Collins. 'is. 6d.) • ON page 93 of this book Mr. Desmond Young says: I apologise for liking German generals. I suppose I ought not to do so." And that......

Potted Butler

THE majority of Samuel Butler's contemporaries knew him as a man of one book, Erewhon, but his reputation expanded rapidly after his death in 1902. This was due largely to the......

Socialists In Italy

THIS book appears opportunely at a moment when recent events have once again brought the Italian Left into prominence and shown up both its strength and its weakness. Agrarian......