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The Mature Pepys

Samuel Pepys, The Saviour of the Navy. By Arthur Bryant. (Cambridge University Press. 12s. 6d.) THERE are historical biographies and biographical histories ; but it is extremely......

New Light On Canning

Tins book, based on a great mass of unpublished papers, Canning's letters to his aunt, his cousin and his wife, and a full journal kept by Canning between 1793 and 1795, makes a......