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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......