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Cycle Of Cathay

DENNIS J. DUNCANSON China in Crisis edited by Ping-ti Ho and Tang Tsou (University of Chicago Press 3 vols 90s each) China Readings edited by Franz Schurmann and Orville Schell......

Naked Truths

JOHN KELLY The Greek Patristic View of Nature D. S. Wallace-Hadrill (Manchester University Press 35s) There is a muddled idea, which is nevertheless widely accepted, that......

The Third Department P. S. Squire (cur 70s)

Smooth work RONALD HINGLEY The Russian political police made a fittingly bizarre debut in the sixteenth century with the establishment by Ivan the Terrible of his notorious......