30 JUNE 1973, page 19

An Outbreak Of Ideas

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Paperbacks The latest publications from Penguin testify to , that strange amalgam of taste, inventiveness and fashionable cant which has become their hallmark. To begin with the......

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Bookend G. Hodder and Stoughton, as befits publishers founded in congregationalist spirit, have usually tended to keep a low profile. With a fine religious list and wide range......