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The Trouble With Utopia

A Clean, Well-lighted Place. By Kathleen Nott. (Heinemann, 18s.) T ALSO observed.' said Socrates in his speech to the court, 'that the very fact that they were poets made them......

Jerusalem Stillborn

The Levellers and the English Revolution. By H. N. Brailsford. (Cresset, 55s.) THE peculiar problem facing the historian of the English Revolution is one of communication.......