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The Magus of the North

From the June/July 1994 Print Edition

Normally, convention dictates that when reviewing a book by a well-known scholar one should devote one’s opening comments to an assessment of that scholar’s achievements. A sense of what is practicable in so short a space prompts me otherwise. With his acuteness of intellect, range of . . . . Continue Reading »