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Land Of Bent Grass
The Northern Isles. Edited by F. T. Wainwright . (Nelson, 30s.) EACH of these three volumes is a welcome eari" tribution to the literature of the Highlands and Islands. Everyone......
Mad World
Carlos the Bewitched. By John Nada. (Cape, 30s.) PROFESSIONAL historians rarely bother with the flesh of history: their concern is with the bone structure; the way it grows and......
Princes In Part Ibus
The Rothschilds, By Frederic Morton. (Secker and Warburg, 25s.) 'The East India Company,' Nathan [Roths- child] would reminisce at a dinner party near the end of his life, 'the......