Page 3, 22nd May 1953
Page 3
'dalton Has Dimples Too'
higher way of keeping faith with his friends? Dr. Dalton's father was not only the tutor and life-long friend of King George V but, as is well known, a Canon of Windsor. At some......
Not For Babes And Sucklings
THE WORD, by Adrienne von Speyr translated by Alexander Dru (Collins, 10s. 6d.). A S T. S. Eliot observes, The Word is a book which "does not lend itself to any classification .......
I Alcluin On The Latest Books These "meditationa" Are Not...
babes and sucklings. Yet, as the. translator himself remarks, the demands the book makes "are not primarily intellectual." The book calls rather for "undivided attention and......
A Box Of Fiction
The Retreat, by P. H. Newby (Cape, 12s. 6d.). Fighter pilot home from Dunkirk. War shock, spiritual claustrophobia, distortion of values. Sensitively handled, delicately......
Conflicts Old And New
THE LADY FOR RANSOM, by Alfred Duggan (Faber, 15s.). REQUIEM FOR A NUN, by William Faulkner (Chatto Windus, I Is. 6d.). T HE period of Mr. Duggan's novel is the 11 th century;......
Reporter Oil The Papacy
THE PAPACY, A NEW APPRAISAL, by John P. McKnight (McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.). Reviewed by DOM BEDE GRIFFITHS, O.S.B. AA R. McKNIGHT is an American J-vijournalist who was......
Reviewed By Lord Pakenham
H1S striking arid provocative in stalment of autobiography will not be to everyone's taste. But speaking for myself 1 would say that it possesses a number of outstanding......