13 JANUARY 1956, page 22

Yesterday In Bohemia

CAFE ROYAL. By •Guy Deghy and Keith Waterhouse. (Hutchin- son, 21s.) 'I REMEMBER Romano's, just as it- used to be'—this was a line, often repeated, in a song sung at a revue a......

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John Evelyn BY J. H. PLUMB T HE timing of these two books,* doubtless accidental, is excellent—one displays Evelyn as he wished to be known to his descendants, the other reveals......

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This book will surely rank henceforth as the standard History of Christian mediaeval philosophy. Every movement and every individual theory is expounded, briefly sometimes, but......