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Puritans And Prudes

1r is generally agreed, declares Miss Muriel Jaeger, that, between 1787 and 1837, the sweetness and light of the Age of Reason passed into the sombre earnestness of the......

Feminine Touch

WHENEVER a young man seeks to demolish completely a person or institution there is usually someone at hand to suck a pipe-stem thoughtfully and ask him to remember that there is......

Hispania

ROMAN SPAIN. By F. J. Wiseman. (Bell and Sons, 18s. 6d.) OLWEN BROGAN'S Roman Gaul was welcomed as the first book to give a concise account in English of the history and remains......