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Paltry Antiquarian

PETER QUENNELL Lord Elgin and the Marbles William St Clair (our 42s) In 1799 Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th of Kincardine, must have considered him- self—and with very......

Continent Isolated

D. W. BROGAN Printing and the Mind of Man compiled and edited by John Carter and Percy H. Muir (Cas- sell 7 gns) • This interesting and in many, or, at any rate some, ways......

A High Victorian

JOHN BAYLEY 'My dear Dunn, Charles has just found your trousers here and they are going at once to you. . . .' Like so much Victorian correspon- dence Rossetti's has all the......