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Hugh Trevor-Roper Europe's Physician: The Various Life of Theodore de Mayerne. Yale University Press, 464 pages, $35
If anything can redeem the posthumous standing of Hugh Trevor-Roper, Lord Dacre (1914-2003), Europe's Physician should do so. But is he thus redeemable? The mixture of spite, gullibility, and suppressio veri which formed Trevor-Roper's chief contribution to public fife over the decades was ruthlessly epitomized in an Encounter piece by A. J. P. Taylor--himself hardly a neophyte in the malice department--when he caught Trevor-Roper red-handed doctoring extracts: His "methods of quotation might ... do harm to his reputation as a serious historian, if ...