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Clio And Voltaire

Voltaire—Historian. By J. H. Brumfitt. (0.U.P., 25s.) THAT lavish and increasingly erudite series, Les Editions de la Pleiade, has just announced an edition of Voltaire's......

No Longer The Vogue

Guide to Western Architecture. By John Gloag. (Allen and Unwin, 63s.) IN the Thirties there was a theory of architecture to which those of us who thought we were ahead of our......

Exploding World

The Human Sum: How Many Should We Be? Edited by C. H. Rolph. (Heinemann, 18s.) So Malthus was right after all; and a world pre- occupied with the danger of obliteration is rush......