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Trying Too Hard

Beryl Gray GEORGE ELIOT: COLLECTED POEMS edited by Lucien Jenkins Skoob Books, f9.95, pp.481 o n 1 January 1865 — that is, a little under halfway through her career as a writ-......

Benefiting From A Military Point Of View

Jasper Griffin THE PUNIC WARS by Nigel Bagnall Hutchinson, £19.99, pp. 355 I t is a mark of a civilised society when its military men read books; much more so when they write......