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How Lawyers Think

The Legal Mind. By Gerald Abrahams. (H.F.L. 18s.) ' LEGAL, literature intended for lay consumption tends on the whole to be singularly unenticing. There are, of course,......

A View Of Spain

The Spanish Temper. By V. S. Pritchett. (Chatto and Windt's. 15s.) TT is not so much Africa that starts at the Pyrenees, for Mr. Pritchett, as Europe that abruptly stops there.......

Essays On Enlightenment

Catherine the Great and Other Studies. By G. P. Gooch. (Long- mans. 21s.) ,,,MR. GoocH is one of the most considerable of modern historians. when compared with his more massive......