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Books

Study of a history man Bevis Hillier ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE: A LIFE by William H. McNeill OUP, £16.95, pp.346 A mold Toynbee was a `macrohisto- rian': he had what his American bio-......

Against Memory

Be it a girl or a great book or vista by the sea, I've found it comes to mean much less to me as the years go by, For he who loved it must be shaped afresh by memory. And this......