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Vico In English

GIAMBATTISTA Vico occupies a key place in the history of philosophy. He lived, mostly at Naples, from 1668 to 1744, a period which saw the first reaction from Descartes's......

A Famous Composer

BOOKS about great musicians are in general very bad ; especially those written in recent times, for it is notable that in the case of the older masters the earlier a biography......

Reforming Tories

Some Proposals for Constitutional Reform, Being the Recom- mendations of a Group of Conservatives. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 7s. 6d.) ONE of the very many advantages of......