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Light On Old Testament By Early Arab Writers
The Desert Bible b) Morris S. Scale (Weidenfeld & Nicolson £3.95) Dr Seale has lived in the Middle East for 40 years and is a specialist in Oriental literature. When he......
Unforgettable Men Of The Mountains
Naked Before the Mountain by Pierre Mazzeaud (Gollancz £3.50) This is an account of the growth of a passion for mountilineering which culminates in the author achieving a place......
Hoist By His Daughter
HOLST: The Great Composers Series by I mogen Hoist (Falser, £2.30) Of the 15 books already published in this series it is reassuring to note that six are concerned with English......
Triple View Of The Trinity Analysed
Trialogue Between Jew, Christian and Muslim by Iva/. Maybauin (Routledge and Kegan Paul £3) Religious wars belong to a bygone age. Political claims, rather than dogmatic......
Another Try At Solving The Enigma Of Emma
Shadow of a Lady by Jane Aiken Hodge (Hodder & Stoughton £2.40) Emma Hamilton continues to pose a conundrum to the historical novelist, and Jane Aiken Hodge has attempted to......
Curious Tales Of Things From Space
Mysteries of the Earth by Jacques Bergier (Sidgwick and Jackson £3.25) Mr. Bergier is quite right in telling us that the historians of the nineteenth century were iilmost unique......
Brightest Of Northumbr Ia's Many Lights
Star of the North: The Life of the Venerable Bede by K. Parbury (Frank Graham 75P) This is a popular introduction to the life of the great Northumbrian saint and scholar,......
Fresh Eye On Schubert
Franz Schubert and the Essence of Melody by Hans Gal (Gollancz £3.50) As a younger man Dr. Gal had intimate associations with Vienna which enable him to write in a very personal......