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The Quest

Richard Calvocoressi t has become almost a cliche of literary I history that English writers in the 1930s were attracted to one of two sharply con- trasting beliefs: Marxism and......

Poetic Justice

James Knox The Scottish Reformation: Church and Society in sixteenth-century Scotland Ian B Cowan (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £11.95) I t is impossible to like John Knox. He was......