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Behind The Arras

The Hurling Time. By Maurice Collis. (Faber, 32s. 6d.) WHAT is history : a story, a lesson? Why do we read about the past: to relax, to escape, to learn, and what to learn?......

The Lucky Aristocrat

Looking Back: The Autobiography of The Duke of Sutherland. (Odhams, 25s.) AFTER plodding through a couple of deadweight forewords to His Grace's autobiography, one by' Viscount......