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Pitiless Patriots

THOMAS BRAUN if History of Sparta 950-192 W. G. Forrest (Hutchinson paper 1 Is 6d, cloth 25s) States that deny political freedom to their citizens normally let them keep their......

Balm In Gilliatt

AUBERON WAUGH What's It Like Out? and Other Stories Penelope Gilliatt (Seeker and Warburg 30s) Surely no mise-en-scene has ever been more conducive to boredom, or productive of......

Invitation To Baroque Delights Books

SACHEVERELL SITWELL The themes of these three books,* the first of them Sicilian, the second and third Bavarian, by and large, now receive serious treatment for the first time......