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The Historian's Mind

Conflicts. By L. B. Namier. (Macmillan. 8s. tkl.) THE difference between the historian and the historiographer should be so obvious as to need no new emphasis. Yet in these......

Dick Sheppard

FEW religious teachers in our own day have more deeply moved the heart and conscience of England than Dick Sheppard. If any- one could have converted London to Christianity he......

Realpolitik

MR. GELBER wrote some years ago a solid, useful, academic book on The Rise of Anglo-American Friendship. It is possible that his studies in that field showed him the close......

A Proust Friendship

Marcel Proust : Lettres a Une Arnie. Recueil de quarante-et-une lettres inedites adressies I Marie Nordlinger I899-1908. (Editions du Calame, Manchester. LI Is.) A scAftcrrt of......