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Historiography

MAN ON HIS PAST. By Herbert Butterfield. (C.U.P., 22s. 6d.) ACTIVMES emerge. naively, like games that children invent for themselves. Each appears, first, as a direction of......

Books

The Scholar as Critic BY KINGSLEY AMIS T HE generation of scholars and teachers which included Saintsbury, Bradley, Raleigh and W. P. Ker is unlikely to draw any cheers from the......