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Beginning The World Unforgettable And Prosaic
• • Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut (Cape, £9.50). 1 REMEMBER a silly bed-sit sort of poster of ten years ago of a ship at sea, The gist of its caption was that the liner — r u d der......
A President And An Irish Gentleman
Erskine H Childers: President of Ireland by John Young (Colin Smythe, £9.75). IT was high time that an adequate biography of Ireland's popular Protestant President appeared, and......
Great Civsations
• • • • The Celts of the West by Venceslas Kruta and Werner Forman (Orbis, £1235). THE text is by Venceslas Kruta, Professor of Classical and prehistoric archaeology at the......
Architecture In Norman Britain By Bryan Little,...
BRYAN Little is well known to readers of the Catholic Herald for his articles on historic Catholic houses. He writes brilliantly on Norman Architecture in Britain because he......
Sad And Bleak Polish Outlook
Poland Under Black Light by Janusz Anderman: Translated by Nina Taylor and Andrew Short (Readers International, £7.95). A GREAT many Poles will probably never forgive General......
A Helping Hand For Parents In The Labyrinth Of Adoption
Adoption of Children by J F Josling and Allen Levy (Longman, £16.95). THERE WILL always be children who, for one reason or another, have been deprived of their natural parents,......
John Xxiii By Peter Hebblethwaithe (geoffrey Chapman,...
edition of this widely acclaimed biography of Pope John. It is timely as we are all thinking and talking and perhaps worrying about his Council both in Rome and everywhere else.......
Tempting St Anthony
Flaubert and Turgenev: A Friendship in Letters edited and translated by Barbara Beaumont (Athlone Press, £18). LETTERS, journals and commonplace books are all part of a......
Glorious Dozule
Dozule: The Glorious Return of the Son of Man by Pere Manceaux (Nouvelles Editions Latines, Paris). BETWEEN 1972-78, forty nine Messages were alleged to have been given by Our......
Treasury Of The Past
THE chief contribution in the current issue of the Scottish Catholic Historical Association's journal, The !tines Review (vol 36 no 1), is Elaine Finnie's study of the fortunes......