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Dream Days

PATRICK ANDERSON There was more to life than the production of coal, the expansion of the cotton trade, the growth of population and the chauvinistic self- satisfaction of......

Shorter Notices

Metternich's Europe : Selected Documents edited by Mark Walker (Macmillan 84s). This volume in the Documentary History of Western Civilisation has often a very contemporary......

English Icarus

KENNETH ALLSOP 'We live by Death's negligence,' a nineteen year old airman entered in his journal in the summer of 1943. The procrastination was soon repaired. One year later......