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Art And Forgery

THE word " fake " can mean many different things. At one end of the scale it covers Van Meegeren's forgeries of Vermeer and Floren- tine reliefs by Bastianini ' and at the other......

The German Problem

From Charlemagne to Hitler. By J. S. Davies. (Cassell. 12s. 6d.) MR. DAVIES has written a political history of Germany in which Lord Runciman gets seven lines to Frederick......

The Wordsworthian System

Wordsworth's View of Nature. By Norman Lacey. (Cambridge University Press. 8s. 6d.) THIS short study is no attempt to break new Wordsworth ground. That would be difficult after......