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Locust Years

Louis XV. By G. P Gooch. (Longmans, 25s.) DR. Gooch has spent a long life in the service of historica l scholarship, and few historians are more skilled than he in making the......

Beware The Jabberwock

MORE COMIC AND CURIOUS VERSE. Selected by J. M. Cohen. (Penguin Books, 3s. 6d.) !:1 - is a pity in a way that (as can readily be guessed) the 'curious' in the title of this......