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Grey Eminence

TIBOR SZAMUELY Dubcek William Shawcross (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 65s) 'Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory'. Disraeli's celebrated phrase......

Arts Festival And Fringe

and a co-existence problem NICHOLAS de JONGH Conceived in the limiting post-war era the Edinburgh Festival must at first have seemed a lovely, life-affirming idea, a distraction......

Warm Steele

J. H. PLUMB Sir Richard Steele Calhoun Winton (John Hopkins Press 86s) Professor Winton's first volume of his life of Steele, Captain Steele, was rightly and widely acclaimed,......