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Jargon About Gerard Manley Hopkins
In Extremity by John Robinson (Cambridge University Press 16.90) John Robinson's first book is a "study of the poems of Gerard Manley I lopkins as the product of a life lived in......
Battle Against Anxiety
Relax to Concentrate by Ursula Fleming. GPC Cassette, available from Rakefoot, Somerton, Oxfordshire £4.95) We all know how much our physical condition influences our state of......
Unreformed Church
The Church in Italy in the Fifteenth Century by Denys Hay (Cambridge University Press £7.95) Hilaire Belloc once said that he had never heard a sermon, no matter how bad,......
Kett's Rebellion: The Norfolk Rising Of 1549 By Stephen K.
Land (Boydell Press : Rowman & Littlefield, £5.50) This book is the story not only of Robert Kett's Rebellion M 1549 hut also that of the rise and fall of the Protector......
New Fiction Mary Radcliffe
The Melodeon by Glendon Swarthout (Seeker & Warburg £3.90) This is a nicely illustrated, charming trifle of a book. Children and old people understanding each other at Christmas......
Television And Radio
Noontidings (BBC Scotland, 12.15 pm), presented by Ian Renton, looks at the problem of speech defects and asks the question: "What did Jesus teach and do?" Credo (ITV, 6.25 pm)......
A Breeze Of Sanity
IT WOULD be euphoric to detect a wind of change con verting or reversing cinema value. But a gentle breeze has certainly brought refreshing sanity and serenity to several new......
Downside School Band Record
The "Slaughterhouse Seven," a jazz band made up of pupils from Downside School, are engaged in the unusual task of combining mock "0" levels and promoting their latest record of......
Morley College Verdi
Morley College Opera are performing Verdi's "Luisa Miller" from February 16 to 22 at Morley College, 61 Westminster College Road, London, SEI, Conductor: Peter Gellhorn. Tickets......