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Triumph Of The Polymaths

Philip Ziegler T HE P HOENIX by Leo Hollis Weidenfeld, £20, pp. 389, ISBN 9780297850779 ✆ £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 L ONDON L IGHTS by James Hamilton John Murray, £25,......

The Lark And The Economist

Mirabel Cecil B LOOMSBURY B ALLERINA by Judith Macrell Weidenfeld, £25, pp. 476, ISBN 978 0297849087 ✆ £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 J udith Mackrell describes her subject......