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Wrong Turning — Left Or Right

David Pryce-Jones THE FOUNDING MYTHS OF ISRAEL by Zeev Sternhell, translated by David Maisel Princeton University Press, £25, pp. 419 T h h e state of Israel is about to......

An Unlikely Couple

Anne Somerset PARTICULAR FRIENDS: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF PEPYS AND EVELYN edited by Guy de la Bedoyere Boydell & Brewer, £25, pp. 352 T he correspondence between John Evelyn and......