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Walpole's Rehoboam

Philip Ziegler Horace Walpole's Correspondence Volumes 35 and 36 edited by W. S. Lewis and others (Oxford University Press E10.00 each) "The year 1933," proclaimed recently the......

Thinking Of The Key

Robert Nye A Common Sky: Philosophy and the Literary Imagination A. D. Nuttall (Chatto and Windus for Sussex University Press £3.95) This is a study of the dullest note in The......