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Political Vacuum Cleaning

The Device of Government : An Essay on Civil Polity. By J Laird. (Cambridge University Press. 6s.) IN the course of this most admirable example of what the Fre call " high......

Books Of The Day

Connoisseurs at Work Wilson Steer. By Robin Ironside. (Phaidon Press. 2os.) Manet Un Bar Aux Folles-Bergere. By Raymond Mortimer. Gal- lery Books, No. 3. (Lund Humphries. 4s.......