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Boer, British And Black

The Cradle Days of Natal : 1497-1845. By Graham Mackeurtan. (Longman, Green. 15s.) THREE peoples went towards the making of Natal. The Zulus were there first by right of......

The Prince Of Journalists

Hazlitt's Selected Essays. (Nonesuch Press. 8s. 6d.) OF all our immortal friends and masters, Hazlitt perhaps has the most fertile mind. There is nothing that does not interest......

The " Divine Emilie"

THE paths of the true Voltairean (using the word not in its nineteenth-century sense, which was synonymous with " atheist ") are many and varied ; but few are pleasanter than......