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P Olished Pebbles
Richard Eales The Sporting Scene: White Knights of Reykjavik George Steiner (Faber 0.40) The 1972 World Championship chess match between Robert Fischer and Boris Spassky already......
Shorter Notices
Polybius F. W. Walbank (University of California Press £4.05) Polybius was the first man to unite political science and history. A Greek Romanophile of the second century BC, he......
Bookend
Bookbuyer Bookbuyer, not always the first to applaud publishers, who are often too busy applauding themselves, would like to make an exception for a little-known Leicester......