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The King-maker Of 1688

A Character of the Trimmer. By H. C. Foxcroft. (Cambridge University Press. 18s.) VOLUME 50 of The Dictionary of National Biography appeared in 1897. The life of George Savile,......

Tuscany At War

War in Val d'Orcia. By Iris Origo. (Jonathan Cape. 10s. 6d.) War in Val d'Orcia is the record of her life kept by an Englishwoman, Marchesa Origo, from January 30, 1943, the day......

A Russian Symbolist

Alexander Blok: The Spirit of music. ,(Lindsay Drummond. 5s.) THIS is the fifth volume in the Russian Literature Library, and con- tains six short essays by the great Russian -......