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Books The Great Succession Struggle

By ROBERT RHODES JAMES T HE Prime Minister, although still enjoying much respect, had too evidently outstayed his welcome. The last great measure on which he had set his heart,......

Pushkin's Monument

Eugene Onegin is the greatest poem in the Russian language and, arguably, the greatest Russian novel as well. Can it be made accessible to the English-speaking reader who has no......

Genius For Sale

Pindar. By C. M. Bowra. (O.U.P., 50s.) BERGSON remarks, in Creative Evolution, that 'the Greeks trusted to nature, trusted to the natural propensity, of the mind, trusted to......