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Christmas In Alexandria

A. N. Wilson The Foreigner: A Search for the First Century Jesus Desmond Stewart (Hamish Hamilton pp. 181, £9.95) There are two sorts of biography which 1 justify endless......

To Us Who Know

A. L. Rowse The Golden Age Restored: the Culture of the Stuart Court 1603-1642 Graham Parry (Manchester University Press pp. 276, £22.50) H istorians are disappointingly......