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Beautifying The Baltic

Henry Hobhouse THE SCANDINAVIAN GARDEN by Karl-Dietrich Bidder Frances Lincoln, £30, pp. 250 I t is lucky that political correctness does not yet apply to the inanimate, or it......

The Uses Of Philosophy

Nicholas Fearn THE DREAM OF REASON by Anthony Gottlieb Allen Lane, £20, pp. 480 E ver since Thales fell down a well while studying the stars, historians have been unable to......