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Reigning Not Ruling

John Vincent LORD SALISBURY: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY by David Steele UCL Press, £45, pp. 441 L ord Salisbury (1830-1903) has a num- ber of claims on our attention. He was the......

A Career Broken But Not Destroyed

Philip Glazebrook BAKER PASHA, MISCONDUCT AND MISCHANCE by Dorothy Anderson Michael Russell, £20, pp. 253 W ritten as fiction the life of Valen- tine Baker might appear to be......