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Side Lines Of History

Vanished Supremacies: Essays on European History, 1812-1918. By Sir Lewis Namier. (Hamish Hamilton, 18s.) THIS collection of essays is described by Sir Lewis Namier as the......

Papalism Triumphant ?

The Vatican Revolution. By Geddes MacGregor. (Macmillan, 21s.) IT was on July 18, 1870, that the final vote-about the Pope's infallibility was taken at the Vatican Council. On......