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A Good Man But Not A Great One

Evelyn Joll COUTTS LINDSAY 1824-1913 by Virginia Surtees Michael Russell, £15.95, pp. 213 C outts Lindsay, we learn from this most admirable biography, was born with many......

Rightly Detained, But For Too Long

John Grigg IN THE HIGHEST DEGREE ODIOUS by A. W. Brian Simpson Clarendon, £35, pp. 464 A t the beginning of the second world war emergency legislation was passed, empowering the......