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Antiquarian Portraiture

A Seventeenth Century Country Gentleman. By E. A. B. Barnard. (Heifer. 10s. 6c1.) IN this little volume, the publishers tell us, a seventeenth-century gentleman is "vividly......

Dull And Lively History

A History of the Roman World from 30 B.C. to A.D. 138. By Edward T. Salmon. (Methuen. 20s.) Roman Panorama. By H. Grose-Hodge. (Cambridge University Press. 8s. 6d.) EVERY......

France And England

England and France, 1939-1943. By R. B. McCallum. (Hamish Hamilton. 10s. 6d.) IT has become customary to examine and diagnose Anglo-French relations as if they were a kind of......