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Tempus Edax Rerum

Paul Johnson A HISTORY OF CIVILISATIONS by Fernand Braudel, translated by Richard Mayne Allen Lane, £25, pp. 600 T his book should not have been pub- lished here, at any rate in......

Glimpses Of The Mystifying

Cressida Connolly THE PALACE THIEF by Ethan Canin Bloomsbury, £15.99, pp. 227 E than Canin is practically perfect. The four stories which comprise The Palace Thief reveal a......