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A O Laboratory Report On Humour
THIS MAKES THE ENGLISH LAUGH B1 B. IL WYNDHAM LEWIS THE ENGLISH SENSE OF HUMOUR, by Sir Harold Nicolson (Constable, 15s.). D ESIRING a number of years ago to discover what made......
Lesson Of The Petrovs' Story
EMPIRE OF FEAR, by Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov (Deutsch, 85.). E XCEPT for the highly dramatic chapter describing the feelings and the adventure s of Mrs. Petrov in the Canberra......
Do You Paint?
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Pictures In Church : No. 295
P ALMA IL VECCHIO was a close follower of both Ciiorgione and Titian and although he scarcely achieved more than mediocrity he fitted in so well with his period and painted such......
Premier Shrine Of England
By H. Martin Gillett THE SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM, by J. C. Dickinson, Fellow and Chaplain of Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 18s. 1\4 R.......
Alcuin On The Latest Books
In Honour o His Flesh VIRGINITY, by J. M. Perrin (Blackfriars, 12s. 6d.). A MONG the most serious gaffes that the genius Simone Weil made in the writings which now enjoy such......
An Odyssey Among
THE NEW NOVELS By Elizabeth Hamilton THE ODYSSEY OF ACURIO. by Mairin Mitchell (Heinemann, 16s.). THE ARISTOCRATS, by Michel de Saint-Pierre, translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury......
Plato In Sicily
By Fr. C. C. Martindale, S.J. PLATO IN SICILY, by G. R. Levy (Faber and Faber, 15c.). THIS book relates the three visits paid by Plato to Sicily during the last 40 years of his......
Handsome Tribute
UT this is a fine book, one that pays handsome tribute to the worth of Walsingham. If the author gives one the sense that he is treading on unfamiliar ground when treating of......