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Background For Heroes

" HE drank a little tea and some sherry. He wound up his watch, and said, now he'had done with time and was going to eternity." So Burnet on Lord William Russell's last hour.......

Scottish Biographies

Lord Bothwell. By Robert Gore-Browne. (Collins. 15s.) Life and Letters of Duncan Forbes of Culloden. By Georgo Menary. (MacLohose. 12s. 6d.) Scornsu history is so often......