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Algebra And Splendour

Race and Nationalism. By Thomas Fra (Allen and Unwin, 30s.) The Vision Splendid. By C. E. Lucas Phil f (Heinemann, 25s.) THE pile of books purporting to be the real (1 on the......

Grammar Schools In A Barbarian Age, When Teenagers Enjoy A

sub- culture inaccessible to an older generation, grammar schools- are still a civilising influence. With some of the independent schools, they are `virtually alone in......

Murals And Miniatures

PHILLIP MADDISON gets a medal and goes to prison in the eighth and latest of Mr. William- son's herculean sequence of late-Victorian and Georgian novels. He also makes some......