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Red Limelig Ht Stalingrad — Paint Of Return. By Ronald Seth.

(Gotta ncz, 21s.) THE name of Stalingrad has a Homeric ring. But just as Troy towers were burned for a light woman, so. one is tempted to say, Stalingrad was razed for a whim :......

Old Soldier

Wellingtonian Studies: Essays on the first Duke of Wellington. Edited by Michael Howard. (Wellington College, 7s.) THIS country is terrified of its generals becoming its......

Savage Beauties

Primitive Peoples Today. By Edward Weyer. (Hamish Hamilton, 63s.) EVERY academic discipline must have a subject matter and 'The Study of Primitive Man' is a decent compromise......