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Interim In The Empire

HISTORIANS tend to chop up their subject into convenient lengths which they can arrange in conventional patterns. The story of the first British Empire, and its conclusion in......

A Bit Of What You Fancy

The Burlesque Tradition in the English Theatre After 1660. By V. C. Clinton-Baddeley. (Methuen. 18s.) IT was Stephen Leacock who advised Mr. Clinton-Baddeley (after he had......