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Firm Stand

PENRY WILLIAMS Shaping of the Elizabethan Regime: bethan Politics, 1558-72 Wallace affrey (Cape 63s) fessor MacCaffrey views the first o years of the reign of Elizabeth I a dual......

Axel Grinding

DONALD McLACHAN Press Power: A Study of Axel Springer Hans Dieter Midler (Macdonald 42s) Axel Springer, who controls an astonish- ingly large slice of the West German press, is......

Books Beauty And The Beastly

TONY TANNER The fourth volume of Leon Edel's biography, Henry James: The Treacherous Years (Hart- Davis, 84s), covers the final decade of the last century, a period when James......