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Richard Cobb On The Paris Riots

Prelude to Revolution: France in May 1968 Daniel Singer (Cape £3.95) This is a very modish book. The author, who writes in Basic Marxisto-American ('When History Quickens its......

The Postal Strike

Regular subscribers to the SPECTATOR may be assured that the copies they have missed during the postal strike will be 'forwarded to them as soon as postal deliveries are......

John Bayley On Studies In German Literature

'German', wrote Pushkin, 'is the only liter- ature in which the critics preceded the authors.' Pushkin in fact knew very little about it, but his perception has point : since......