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A Holy Roman Emperor Of Sagacity Without Magnetism
by Sir CHARLES PETRIE Charles V by Otto von Reissburg (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 50s.) T HIS book Is to be welcomed, for although the translator's style is admittedly none of the......
Good Writing About The Countryside
by JOSEF MURREN Cumberland Heritage by Molly Lefebure (Gollancz 45s.) THIS is a thoughtful book, accurately produced with nicely varied pictures. It can be recommended to those......
Control Of Life
The Biocrats by Gerald Leach (Jonathan Cape, 35s.) WHO are the Biocrats? v v They are the practitioners of the science relating to the control of life processes, and Gerald......
The Vilified Advocate Of Human Brotherhood
by ELIZABETH HAMILTON Martin Luther King by David L. Lewis (Allen Lane The Penguin Press 63s.) MARTIN LUTHER KING died on April 4, 1968, on the balcony of a motel at Memphis, at......
Religious Paperbacks By Barbara Hamilton-smith
A Kind of Praying by Rex Chapman (SCM 13s.). These meditations, based on gospel stories, are clearly not intended to be read at one sitting (as one does for reviewing), but to......
Irish History's Great Non-event
by FERGUS MOORE The Irish Convention 1917-18 by R. B. McDowell (Rut ledge & Kegan Paul 45s.) T HE Irish Convention of 1917-18 must rank, in contemporary parlance, as the......
Soot-and-whitewash
by DERIC FULLER Baroque Churches by P. and C. Cannon-Brookes (Paul Hamlyn 25s.) T HIS book, and the series to which it belongs, is excellent value for moneY. Any book nowadays......
People Talking About Themselves
MARTINE LEGGE Journey from the North Vol. II the Autobiography of Storm Jameson (Collins Harwill 50s.). One Life by Christian Barnard and Curtis Bill Pepper (Harrap 55s.). Pearl......