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Old Salts

PETER VANSITTART Etchings of a Whaling Cruise J. Ross Browne (Harvard/our 95s) Men and Ships Around Cape Horn 1616 - 1939 Jean Randier (Barker 70s) Emigrating to America at......

Mother Tongue

J. 0. URMSON Speech Acts J. R. Searle (cue 45s) In the 'thirties and 'forties philosophers were talking a great deal about language. Wittgenstein was telling us that traditional......

New Thrillers

Fun with guns PETER PARLEY Blind Man with a Pistol Chester limes (Hodder and Stoughton 30s) Message Ends David Craig (Cape 21s) Spies of Good Intent Gabriel Veraldi (Deutsch......