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Fog Patches

MAzziNi. By Gaetano Salvemini. (Cape, 18s,) THE thoughts and enterprise of Mazzini illustrate in a nineteenth- century idiom more than one plausible generalisation about human......

Digging

RECENT ARC-DEC/LOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN BRITAIN. Edited by R. L. S. Bruce-Mitford. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 42s.) WE have in recent years had many books popularising the methods......

Anti-machiavel

THE REASON OF STATE and THE GREATNESS OF CITIES. BY GIOVANNI BOTERO was a dismissed Jesuit who had a minor political career in the employment of Italian princes. He published......