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The Kirk's Conformity

The Scottish Reformation, 1560. By Gordon Donaldson. (C.U.P.. 30s.) CENTENARIES perpetuate legends : books pub - lished on these occasions can usually be relied on for the......

Former Pupils

, 16s.) A nOlique and the King. By Sergeanne Colon. (Heinemann, 21s.) IN th e central, most arresting episode of Neville 6 awes's uneven, talented, irascible novel, the J......

Former Weapons

AT a time when a new wave of ostrichism in re- gard to defence is sweeping the country it is as well to be reminded by so un-militarist a military pundit as Captain Liddell Hart......