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Writing For His Country
Maximilian's Lieutenant A Personal history of the Mexican Campaign 1864-7 by Ernst Pitner, trans. and edited by Gordon Etherington-Smith, IB Tauns, £34.50. GORDON......
All The Ironies Of A Holy Life
Father Ralph by Gerald O'Donovan, Brandon Press, £6.95 I T WAS HIS MOTHER'S idea that Ralph O'Brien should be a priest, he was to grow up unspotted from the world, holy as a......
A Detaii. From The Finials On The Campaniles Of The Western
transept of Antoni Gaudi's Expiatory Church of Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Each detail on the finial represents a bishop's symbols of office: mitre, staff and ring. Those on......
Lent ' Reading
The first in a series of extracts from books that may be helpful reading in Lent. AMONG THE REASONS THAT we in the modern world have difficulty giving credence to the reality of......
Looking For An Earthly Paradise
Paradise Dreamed: Now Utopian Thinkers have Changed the Modern World by Pamela Neville-Sington and David Sington, Bloomsbury, £18.99 h opes HISTORY, the hopes and dreams of men......