Disraeli epic in slow motion review
A glowing but cautious appraisal of Disraeli by Robert Blake. The Oxford author traces the Victorian prime minister’s public life from restless youth through entangling affairs to political rise and Suez era coup. Blake stresses diligence and saline candor, acknowledging drama yet noting a slower, less vivid biopic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Times
G. E. Buckle
Disraeli
Oxford
Ral Blake
B. R. Jerman
Althoug
Monypenny-Buckle
Mr Blake
Benjamin Disraeli
Stock Exchange
Uaanceesfal
England
Clara Bolton
Henrietta
Francis Sykes
Basildon
Berkshire
Bradford
Lord Melbourne
Khedive
Suez Canal Company
Rothschilds
Lytton Strachey
Hansard
Lubbock
Browning
Robert Langbaum
del Sarto
Fra Lippo Lippis
Ferrara
Blougram
Gigadilos
Mafia not alone in the crime business
Review of Michele Pantaleone's The Mafia and Politics. The piece critiques the book as serious yet tedious, tracing how the Mafia diversifies into business and politics beyond Sicily while noting that crime persists globally. It contrasts with Norman Lewis and cites broad crime economics in Britain, the USA, and Sarkdinia, arguing reform alone may not stamp out crime.
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Mafia
Italy
Sicily
Pantaleone
Norman Lewis
South Tyrol
Sardinia
Britain
USA
Fred Freed
Underworld
The
Ussr
Durkheim
Verity Hewitt Pty Ltd Christmas and New Year Greeting
The management and staff of Verity Hewitt Pty Ltd extend Christmas wishes to friends and clients. They reflect on past years of service and express anticipation of continuing to serve in 1967.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verity Hewitt Pty Ltd
Browning Criticism and Royal Spy Reviewed by Critics
This essay review contrasts Philip Drew’s Browning collection with Edna Nixon’s Royal Spy about the Chevalier d Eon. It notes Leavis era tensions, praises the Browning essays by Badger Langbaum and Preyer, and critiques Nixon for stilted prose and incomplete analysis of transvestism.
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Philip Drew
Methuen, Price
Stg
Chevalier D'Eon
Edna Nixon
Heinemann
Kingsbury Badger
William Dewvane
Robert Langbaum
Robert Preyer
Browning
Andrea del Sarto
Drew
George Santayana
Percy Lubbock
Exploration and voyages across New Guinea and Torres Strait
A review summarises Ivan Champion’s explorations from the Fly to the Sepik in 1928 29 with limited gear and carriers earning six pounds a month and detecting Telefomin before broader highland crossings. It compares Champion’s field notes with Marie Bassett’s HMS Rattlesnake voyage portraits using Brierly and Huxley sources, noting strengths and misattributions while highlighting their intertwined histories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Guinea
Sepik
Ivan F. Champion
Landsdowne Press
Ivan Champion
Border Patrol
Torres Straits
Papua
Kennedy
Jacky-Jacky
T. H. Huxley
John Macgillivray
Owen Stanley
Brierly
Carron
Basset
Barbara Thompson
Huxley
Macgillivray
Sonnets in Paperback The Elizabethan Sonnet
J W Lever's Methuen paperback priced 16 shillings presents a scholarly study of the Elizabethan sonnet tradition. First issued 1956, the work offers wide references for advanced students and touches on Shakespeare, Paradise Lost, and Wyatt as new research is incorporated.
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Lever
Shakespeare
Powell
Wyatt
H.H
Pats of Books offers wide range of Cheshires Paperbacks
Holiday reading chosen from Cheshires Book shop Garema Place with many titles across genres. Sun Books list includes Ring Lardner Jr The Festacy of Owen Muir and The Long Prospect, plus Safire Australia Satirised and travel and sport reads. Other editions feature Australian wine guides to classics, science fiction, plays, politics, and history with prices mostly under one shilling or a few pence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheshires
Garema Place
Sun Books
Owen Muir
Ring Lardner Jr
Allen Son
Judah Waten
Elizabeth Harrower
BD. E. Murphy
Gary Player
Time Arts
Ninette Dutton
Ronald Anderson
Penguin Books
Picamiso
Francoise Gilot
Carlton Lake
China
P. Fitzgerald
Bruce Cation
Frederic Pohl
Nigel Dennis
Marc Spark
Angus Wilson
R. H. Tawney
Germany
Rudolf Walter Leonhardt
Howell
Charles Haldeman
Ellery Queen
Colin MacInnes
Edward Lewis Wallant
Ernest Hemingway
George Miles
Nicolas Belley
Shack
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Disraeli Epic
Robert Blake
Eyre and Spottiswoode
Price
W. F. Monypenny
Henrietta Sykes
Left
Michele Pantaleone
Chatto & Windus
Victoria
Melbourne
Happy
Verity Hewitt
Canberra
Garema Arcade
Robert Browning
Leavis
F. E. L. Priestley
Slack
Marie Bassett
Fly
Everest
Australia
Karius
Champion
Telefomin
Bolivia
New
Marnie Bassett
Cape York
Oswald Brierly
Port Essington
Toro McArthur
National Library
McArthur
John
Bassett
Sonnets
J. W. Lever
Methuen
Pats of Books
Uscipati Noti
Euro
Pri
Nev
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