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Books

By ANGUS WILSON ' I N the latest edition of the Soviet Encyclopedia Catherine II appears as the supreme type of eighteenth-century auto- crat. Aristocratic and bourgeois......

Another Domesday

Man and the Land. By L. Dudley Stamp. (Collins: New Naturalist Series, 25s.) ANOTHER well-polished piece of natural history has slipped off the Collins production line. Like......