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High Claims

Medieval Thought from St. Augustine to Ockham. By Gordon Leff.. (Penguin Books, 3s. 6d.) FOR most people, other than historians, if the Middle Ages still live at all, it is......

Gneu, Gou, Gu

WE have it on the authority of Sir Harold Nicol- son, as Strix was saying - recently, that 'the appreciation of nonsense . . . is a phenomenon which can rarely be found except......