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Johnson On Johnson: A Very Private View
Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate, Hogarth Press £6.95. Dr Johnson by Mrs Thrale, Edited by Richard lngrams Chatto & Windus £10.95. DR Johnson died two hundred years ago......
The Shifting Sands Of Mistrust
The Haj by Leon Uris, Andre Deutsch £9.95 THIS latest offering from the pen of Leon Uris in no way will disappoint the expectations of those who have read and enjoyed his......
Find Your Way With Wagner
Who's Who in Wagner's Life & Work by Phillip Hodson, Weidenfeld and Nicolson £12.95 THIS A-Z of Wagner's life and work succeeds admirably as a general introduction, and almost......
Enchantment
Indian Diary 1952-53 by Edward Ardizzone, (The Bodley Head £15). AS Malcom Muggeridge says in h is Introduction to this profusely illustrated diary, "It was a sort of twilight......
A Guide Through The Maze
A Dictionary of Political Thought by Roger Scruton, Pan Reference £3.95 THE net - of politics is cast wide in this book, as indeed it must be, and you will find entries for......
A Bargain Price World
Paperback World Atlas John Bartholomew & Son Ltd., £2.75. IN the past atlases of the world have usually been of the coffee table variety and, because of their cost, have tended......
Jumping On The Reformation Wagon
The Reformation and the English People by J. J. Scarisbrick, Basil Blackwell, £14.50. THE first thing to be said about Professor Scarisbrick's The Reformation and the English......
The Irish Chameleon In Terror
Citizen burke by Eilis Dillon, Hodder & Stoughton £8.95. THE Father James Burke who made a brief appearance in Eilis Dillon's novel, Wild Geese, is the central character of her......
An Honourable View Of A Rebel
/aces of Philip: A memoir of Philip Toynbee by Jessica Mitford, Heinemann, £9.95 PHILIP Toynbee was asked by The Times in 1980 to prepare an obituary of Jessica Mitford. The......