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All Souls And Others

A.L. Rowse Collisions, Essays and Reviews. David Cal l° (Quartet Books £1.50) What strikes one first about this collection of reprinted articles is the contemporary olie he .:......

Skilful Satyr

Geoffrey Elton The Rump Parliament 1648-1653 Blair Worden (Cambridge University Press £8.40) The wave of precise historical scholarship, devoted to an exhaustive use of the......