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A Few Comfortable Myths About Nuns Destroyed
by MAUREEN VINCENT Nuns by Marcelle Bernstein (Collins £4.95) We Catholics tend to take our nuns far too much for granted. At least, that goes for Catholic women who have been......
When Cardinal Newman Defended Atheists
by J. DEREK HOLMES The Letters and Diaries of John henry Newman edited by C. S. Dessain and Thomas Gornall, Si. Volume XXIX: The Cardinalate. Volume XXX: A Cardinal's Apostolate......
Films By Freda Bruce Lockhart
Hard choices we have yet to face THERE can be no gainsaying that All the President's Men ("AA", Warner 2) is a fine piece of quasidocumentary film-making. Everybody knows if......
By Frances Gumley
The Word and the Sword by Theo Lang (New English Library £1). Over the years there have been many attempts by modern novelists and dramatists to capture the spirit of the......
By The Viscount Monckton Of Brenchley
The Piebald Standard: The Story of the Knights Templars by Edith Simon (White Lion Publishers £5.95) This book was first published in 1959, and it is a sign of the times that......
By William Burridge, W.f.
Light on the Epistles by John L. McKenzie (Thomas More Press $8.95) John L. McKenzie, the noted American Biblical scholar, is perhaps best known outside the professional circles......
Long, Pregnant Pauses At The Aldwych Theatre Inevitably...
The audience at Gorky's "The Zykovs" was confused. They did not know whether they were watching Russian drama, comedy or melodrama, and the actors, too, betrayed uncertainty......
Travelling People
On a Shoestring to Courg by Derula Murphy (John Murray £4.95) This book is definitely by one of the "travelling people," endowed with all the gifts her country can bestow. tier......