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The Outsider

Anthony Nutting A. P. Herbert: A Biography Reginald PoUnd (Michael Joseph 27.25) Among the many futile reforms enacted by the Labour Party in office, perhaps the Pettiest and......

The Sunnier King

John Kenyon Louis XIV and Absolutism and Louis XIV and Europe edited by Ragnhild Hatton (Macmillan £10 each, £4.95 paper) Less than twenty years ago anyone who did not read......