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The Tricks Of The Old Historians

Raymond Carr NOT BY FACT ALONE by John Clive Collins Harvill, £15, pp. 334 T he Sixteenth Century Journal is about to publish an article entitled Who's on Top? Gender as......

His Hart's In The Highlands

James Teacher OUTSIDE DAYS, SOME ADVENTURES WITH ROD AND GUN by Max Hastings Michael Joseph, £14.95, pp.216 his is a collection of articles on coun- try sports that have already......

Sad Life Of A Funny Genius

John Whitworth NO LAUGHING MATTER: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FLANN O'BRIEN by Anthony Cronin Grafton Books, £16.95, pp.260 E verybody I know who actually reads books has a copy of......