2 JANUARY 1959, page 34

Letter To Lord Kinross

MY LORD, I have lately been much diverted by a volume of essays and descriptions (entitled The Candid Eye) in which your Lordship, emulating the ingenious M. Voltaire, portrays......

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When Parnell's Irish in the House Pressed that the British Navy's cat- O'-nine-tails be abolished, what Shut against them? It was Neither Irish nor English nor of that Decade,......

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Tawney's Equilibrium

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