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Play The Game!

TIBOR SZAMUELY The Game of Nations Miles Copeland (Weidenfeld and Nicholson 50s) The main argument against this book being an elaborate hoax is that a hoaxer would have been......

Legal Aid

G. A. FORREST The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward Sir F. Pollock and F. W. Maitland (cut' 2 vols 65s each) This work, now re-issued with an intro- duction by......

Shorter Notices

Pop from the Beginning Nik Cohn (Weiden- feld and Nicolson 36s). Slick, snide but still just perceptibly swinging, Mr C,ohn's history of pop provides some handy grid references......