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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......

Cara And The Regius Professor

With Dearest Love to All: The Lite and Letters of Lady Jebb. By Mary Reed Bobbitt. (Faber, 25s.) IT is, I think, a good test of a book that you buy it and give it to your ft......

Ends Of The Earth

THE aim of the Kon-Tiki expedition, if you remember, was to show that the similarities be- tween the cultures of South America and Poly- nesia were the result of South American......