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How To Make Mummy Eyes
SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES, by N. Wooster (Penguin Books, 4d. 6d.). T HOSE who delight in collecting out-of-the-way information—and there are worse frailties—will find some choice......
Belisarius Was Top
SOLDIERS A N D SOLDIERING, by Field-Marshal Lord Wavell (Jonathan Cape, Ss. 6d.), 1953. By Brigadier H. A. Joly de Lotbiniere TN this little work Lord Wavell'sson 1 has......
Man-about Town
THE TATLER : SIR RICHARD STEELE, edited and selected by Lewis Gibbs (Dent's Everyman's Library, 6s.). S TEELE is an elegant and agreeable writer; the prose of the period,......
Waugh On The Future
LOVE AMONG THE RI INS, by Evelyn Waugh (Chapman & Hall, 6s.). IT'S in the well-worn scenery of the near future — see Brave New World. Nineteen Eighty-Four, etc. etc., that Mr.......
Authors Should Disapprove
WINTER ADVENTURE, b y Margaret West (Museum Press, 7s. 6d.). \N T RITERS of children's adventure stories—even some of the best of them—often offend by dragging their child......
French Record Of English Taste
THE TATE GALLERY, ART ET STYLE No. 27 (Tate Gallery, 20s. or loose plate edition, 28s.). S ELDOM has a foreign publication devoted a complete number to things British. but in......
Unrelieved Grief Is Almost A Pagan Conception
By Fr. CONRAD PEPLER, O.P. T HE two recent articles in THE CATHOLIC HERALD on "Art as a Means to Worship" have shown that there exists a sharp cleavage between the Christian......
All Sorts
By Fr. BERNARD BASSET, S.J. The Faith in the North H ALE YORKSHIRE, i hope, will he going to Bradford this Sunday for the great Coronation pageant in the Odsal Stadium. I wish I......
Unique Anglican
By B. E. Kenworthy-Browne FATHER BENSON OF COWLEY, by M. V. Woodgate (Geoffrey Bless, 10s. 6d.). A T long last the story of this remarkable life has been written. though nearly......
Children's Corner
D EAR Children: Have you heard about Linda, the sheep whose fleece is being spun into wool by hand and then hand - woven into material for a coat for Princess Anne? I hope we......