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Shakespeare Plain

MARTIN SEYMOUR-SMITH The New Penguin Shakespeare: general editor T. J. B. Spencer. Macbeth (editor G. K. Hunter); A Midsummer Night's Dream (editor Stanley Wells); Julius Caesar......

World Today

D. C. WATT The Approach of War, 1938-1939 Christopher Thorne; The Framework of EConomic Ac- tivity : The International Economy and the Rise of the Twentieth Century Anthony......

Discreet Coercion

FRANCIS KING The period covered by this entertaining history is the twenty-odd years between the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry and his 'hairy barbarians,' to shake Japan......