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A New Life Of St. Thertse
Was she 'canonised' in her home? ; y Fr. ETIENNE ROBO THE HIDDEN FACE, by Ida Gorres (Burns & Oates, 30s.). F ROM Germany comes a new biography of Si. Therese of Lisieux. Its......
Inadequate Account Of A Modern Martyrdom
By HUGH DELARGY, MR FOR MY NAME'S SAKE, by Ronald Seth (Ines, 18s.). T HIS book purports to be an account of the Catholic Church's resistance first to Nazism during the war in......
Sustained Daylight On The Novel
By DEREK STANDFORD JOYCE CARY: a preface to his novels, by Andrew Wright (Chatto & Windus, 15s.). THE IRONIC GERMAN: a study of Thomas Mann, by Erich Heller (Seeker & Warburg,......
Win Friends, Popularity With Little Tricks Of Everyday Talk
A WELL KNOWN publisher reports there is a simple technique of everyday conversation which can pay you real dividends in both social and professional advancement and works like......
A Shell Against His Three Wives
WOMEN AN1) THOMAS HARROW. by John P. Marquand (Collins, 16s.). THE LUNATIC REPUBLIC, by Compton Mackenzie (Chant,. 15x.). TO THE ISLANDS, by Randolph Stow (Macdonald, 13s. 6d.).......
Music Hilarious 'figaro'
THE orginal French comedy, "The Marriage of Figaro." by Beaumarchais was intended to be performed as a comic opera to Spanish songs and dances. After him. more than a dozen......
Pictures In Church: No. 434
WHILE Blake was painting " his visions in England. and Goya his nightmares in Spain; while Delacroix had broken down the classicism in France. in Germany a band of artists,......
Theatre 'the Rose Tattoo'
"THE Rose Tattoo" by Tennessee Williams (at the New Theatre) might as suitably have been named " The Pink Slip," since it is in this provocative garment that the heroine is......
Are You Going To The Lakes?
A useful feature of the Lancaster Diocesan Directory for 1959 (Is.) is the section on holiday resorts in the diocese, listing churches and Mass-centres, which should be......
Wit & Wisdom
STORIES FROM A MING COLLECTION, translated by Cyril Birch (BodIey Head, 18s.). "T . secure a Life of Ease, You must work yourself to death." This is but one of the many wise,......