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The German Myth

" Deutschland ist Hamlet," the poet Freiligrath wrote more than a hundred years ago, likening Germany brooding over its lost freedom to the unhappy ghost which walked the......

Vicars Choral

Life in a Medieval College. By Frederick Harrison. (John Murray. 21s.) CANON HARRISON'S book has nothing to do with Oxford or Cam- bridge, nor does it deal only with the Middle......