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Hope Is At A Discount
THE CHRISTIAN HOPE, by J. E. Fison (Longmans, 21s.). C ANON FISON begins his book by suggesting that the present hold of Marxism over so many peoples is to be most fundamentally......
All Sorts
By Fr. Bernard Basset, S.J. Down with a bang come big ideas I T has been instructive and amusing to listen to many discussions about Our Lady's Year. Certainly a great many......
Fr. Vann's Gem
The need for a fourth edrItion of Fr. Gerald Vann's The Pain of Christ (Blackfriars, bs. 6d.) proves how steady is the demand for this gem of contemporary spiritual reading. The......
Realism In Art And Beyond
SEEING AND KNOWING, by Bernard Berenson (Chapman Sc Hall, 18s.). CARAVAGGIO : HIS INCONGRUITY AND HIS FAME, by Bernard Berenson (Chapman Sc Hall, 18s3. A T first sight this......
A Man Who Was An Empire
Christopher Dawson has written the introduction to the latest reprint of Gibbon's Decline and Fall in six volumes of Everyman's Library (Dents, 75. each). In it Mr. Dawson......
Liturgy: Guide For Two Sets Of Culprits
By Fr. Clifford Howell, S.J. THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHRISTIAN WORSHIP: An Outline of Liturgical History, by Dom Benedict Steuart, 0.S.B. (Longmans, 30s.). T HE half-century which h......
Mannequin On Makogai
THE UNCLEAN, by Guy des Cars (Allan Wingate, 12s. 6d.). "I l HAVE been expecting you," were Sister Marie Ange's first words to Chantal. This simplicity ignored the journey from......
Alcuin On The Latest Books
TWELVE YEARS' PILGRIMAGE -TO NOWHERE A PRIEST IN RUSSIA AND TIIE BALTIC, by Fr. Charles Bourgeois. Introduction by Sir David Kelly, translated by the Earl of Wicklow (Clon more......