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Maligned Sacrificers Of Children

Jasper Griffin THE PHOENICIANS edited by Sabatino Moscati BompianilJohn Murray, f60, pp. 766 P osterity has no mercy for the defeated. The Phoenicians, an energetic seafaring......

Practising What The Other Preached

Antonia Douro THE GODWINS AND THE SHELLEYS by William St Clair Faber, f20, pp.572 W illiam St Clair's look at the philo- sopher and the poet inspects the links in the chain that......