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A Great French Spiritual Writer
JACQUES R1V1ERE: a life of the Spirit, by Bradford Cook (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 25s.). O UR stran g e provincialism in so lar g ely ignoring the writings of fellow Catholics......
Virtuoso Dancing
USUALLY it is the prima ballerinas who are the attraction of a ballet company. But if anyone can be said to be the star Of the talented cast in the International Ballet of the......
Theatre
ARE THERE TOO MANY ECCENTRICS? W HETHER one enjoys "Auntie Manse" (Adelphi) depends, 1 suppose. on whether one is a fan of Beatrice Lillie who takes the name part: that of the......
The Dead Sea And The Baptist Scrolls
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST AND THE DESERT TRADITION, by Jean Steinmann, translated from the French by Michael Boyes (Harper, New York; Longmans, London, T °THIS work by an outstanding......
Product Of A Life Of Study
THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, with an introduction and Commentary b e C. C. Martindale, &J. (Lon g mans, 10s.). I N the now familiar format of the "Stonyhurst Scripture Manuals", in......
Pictures In Church: No. 416
pococco sculpture can he seen at its best in the work of l g naz Gunther, where. in one man, all the virtues of the style seem to have lodged. In painting it is more difficult......
Family Bible To Be Both Seen And Used
By Most Rev. John Carmel Heenan, D.D. Archbishop of Liverpool nu; HOLY BIBLE FOR THE FAMILY (Longmans, £6 6s.). IT does not seem long since Protestants believed that part of the......
Marcel Proust As Critic
BY WAY OF SAINTE-BEUVE, by Marcel Proust (Chafto & Indus, 25s.). pRousrs obsession was with oblivion and memory. two of the main themes in his great novel. Both those themes are......