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Irish Population Problems
By Proftissor DENIS GWYNN PRE-FAMINE IRELAND. A Study in Historical Geography, by T. W. Freeman (Manchester University Press, 35s.). rI AHIS dose analysis of economic and social......
Poems Of Rilke's
last 20 years By NORA WYDENBRUCK RAINER MARIA RIEKEPOEMS 1906-1926, translated with an introduction by J. 11, Lcishman (Hogarth 'Press, 25s.). THIS volume contains all the......
Poetic Workshop
DYLAN THOMAS: Letters to Vernon Watkins (Dent & Faber, I 5s.). VVTIOEVER resorts to this volume in the hope of such lurid revelations_as Mr. Malcolm Brinin's book made plain is......
Christmas Crossword Winners
First prize, one guinea : Miss F. M. Arthur. West Kirby, Cheshire. Second prize, a book : Fr. F. Diamond, Princes Risborough, Bucks.......
Schools Owe Much To This Saint
By B. J. PRENTIS ST. JOHN BAPTISTE DE LA SALLE, by W. J. Battersby (Burns Oates, 42s.). Fr HERE have been a number of books can St. John Baptiste de la Salle, and a number also......
Edifying
THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, by Fulton Oursler (Cedar Special, the World's Work, 5s.). pULTON OUSLER, who won a fantastic best-seller success with " The Greatest Story Ever......
A Long Awaited Scholarly Book
LITURGY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH, by Archdale A. King (Longmans 42s.). T HIS is a large, learned hook of some 476 pages with four pages of illustrations; it is scholarly,......
Winter Gardens
COLOUR IN THE WINTER GARDEN, by Graham Stuart Thomas (Phoenix, 36s.). REAU TIFULLY illustrated, amply annotated, and comprehensive in its information, this book will be both of......
Easy Dieting
THE HIGH PROTEIN DIET AND COOKERY BOOK, by Theodora Fitzgibbon it Michael Helium (Deutsch, 13s. 6d.). A N operation, the birth of a baby, or discomfort and unsightliness cause......
Recent Novels
Closed Worlds By CLARE SIMON A CUP OF TEA FOR MR. THORGILL, by Storm Jameson (MacMillan, 15s.). TEN POLLIT PLACE, by C. H. B. Kitchin (Seeker and Warbur g , 15s.). ROTH these......
Ginger Cat
THOMASINA. by Paul Galileo Michael Joseph, I5s.). P AUL GALL1CO'S new novel is about a ginger cat called Thomasina, the great-niece of the well-known Jennie, and a cat of......
Pictures In Church No. 377
nNE common interest the Dutch painters bad with their neighbours the Flemish and their cousins the French was a passion for Italy. Italy of the early 17th century was to the art......