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Fantasy In A Big City
By RUBY MILLAR PASSING TIME, by Michel Butor (Faber & Faber, 21s.). TOO MANY GHOSTS, by Paul Galileo (Michael Joseph, 16s.). NO SIGNPOSTS IN THE SEA, by V. Sackville-West......
Oscar Wilde:
The Final Scene by Rev. Edmund Burke C.P. he precise circumstances of Oscar Wilde's death-bed conversion to the Roman Catholic Church have always been in dispute. This account,......
Liturgy For Scholars
YEARBOOK OF LITURGICAL STUDIES. Edited by John H. Miller, C.S.C. (Fides Publishers Association, Notre Dame, Indiana, 30s.). T HIS is the first volume of a new annual publication......
By Iris Conlay
39: THE SINGLE PILLAR AT WESTMINSTER: G REEK and Roman architecture is horizontal in character, Gothic architecture is vertical. The upward striving of Gothic architecture can......
A Superb Knox Stimulant
RETREAT IN SLOW MOTION, by Ronald Knox (Shred It Ward,I6s.). H OW glad we must be that Ronald Knox was so faithful to the practice of writing out his public utterances; it means......
On Virginity
VIRGINITY, by J. M. Perrin, 0.P., translated by Katherine Gordon (Arvin Press, is. 6d.). THIST HIS book treats in a rich and way of a subject still widely misunderstood, even by......
I Am A Little Uneasy About 'the Imitation'
By Dom PETER DAMIEN LIVING THE INTERIOR LIFE, Vol. H, by Wendelin Meyer, O.F.M., trans. by Colman J. O'Donovan (The Mercier Press Limited, 21s.). IN this volume the author......
Noonday Devil Achieves Status
By W. J. IGOE IRRATIONAL MAN, by William Barrett (Heinemann, 21s.). "IT is," wrote Cassian, about fifteen hundred years ago, "akin to dejection and especially felt by wandering......
Hazards On High Seas
By Frank Davey ADAM WAS A FISHERMAN, by Arthur Eperon (Hale, 12s. 6d). T HE author was one of a team which formed the first four-engined Halifax squadron with Leonard Cheshire......
A New Light On The Mass. By Abbot Bernard Capelle.
O.S.B.. trans. by is Monk of Glenstal (Clonmore and Reynolds, Ss.). T HERE seems to he a superNits, of books on the Mass also at the present time. but again I must single out......
These Tools Won't Finish The Job
By JOSEPH QUINN B.Sc. (Econ.) THE CHURCH AND ECONOMICS, by Christopher Hollis. Faith and Fact Series (Burns and Oates, 8s. 6d.). I N the Faith and Fact Series I we have come to......
Remarkable
SHE WHO LIVED HER NAME, by Marie Rene-Bazin (The Burleigh Press, 7s. 6d.), I N this life of Blessed Mother Mary of Providence, Foundress of the Society of the Helpers of the......
The Lure Of Sails
By OTTO HERSCHAN W HETHER it be a visit to the "Cutty Sark " at Greenwich or the "Discovery " at the Thames Embankment, yesterday, today, or in the years to come, the days of......