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Prussia Triumphant

B:smarck and the Creation of the Second Reich. By F. Darnistaedter. (Methuen. 21s.) FOR close on ten years out of the forty-eight of this century we have been at war with......

The Importance Of Fiction

The Great Tradition. By F. R. Leavis. (Chatto and Windus. 12s. 6d.) - HOWEVER much one may differ from Dr Leavis—and why should anybody want a book with which he wholly agrees......