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Books
DR. BANDA—REALIST OR BETRAYER OF AFRICA? Banda by Philip Short (Routledge & Kegan Paul /3.50) Philip Short's long-awaited biography of Dr. Banda of Malawi (formerly Nyasaland).......
A Bonaparte's Compulsive Journey To Japan
Wonderful Fool by Shusaku Endo (Peter Owen, £3.25). Shusaku Endo has been hailed within his own country of Japan and by his admirers (of whom, quite frankly, 1 am one) as a......
Example Of Poussin's 'geometric Style'
Poussin: The Holy Family on the Steps by Howard Hibbard (Allen Lane £2.25) This book is yet another in the series "Art in Context" which Allen Lane is giving us — though at......
Emphasis Is Now On Self-help
With a Little !kip from my Friends by John Fellow (Allen Lane £2.50) "Community development" is one of the "in" things of the present for helping the struggling parochial......
Why Newman Opposed The Doctrine Of Infallibility
The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman. Vol. XXV. !he Vatican Council, January 1870 to December 1871. Edited by C. S. Dessain and Thomas Gornall (Clarendon Press £12) On......
Food For Moralists
Guilt and Grace by Paul Tournier (Hodder & Stoughton £1.50)......
Dr. Paul Tournier Practised As A Physician In Geneva In
1928: he turned to the practice of psychotherapy as a result or his interest "in the whole man." Sonic. reading him. will think that doctors wisely reserve their alliance with......
The Paschal Sunrise
RESURRECTION FLASH (7) Any reconstruction of the first Easter begins with the women at the tomb. True, every Catholic, perhaps every genuine Christian heart, will feel sure that......
Rebirth After A Tense Triangle
Waiting Monkey Embracing a Tree by Penelope Shuttle (Calder and Boyars £2.45) The novelist Ann Quin once told me in -a letter that she had been reading some Virginia Woolf:......
Black Clergy Have A Lot To Teach Us
Black Theology, edited by Basil Moore (Hurst & Co. £2.50) When a friend suggested recently I should review Black Theology, I nearly refused, saying I was neither black nor. a......
Ex-hindu Seeks 'christ's Voice'
Journey to Gorakhpur by John Moffitt (Sheldon Press £3.50) John Moffitt was for 25 years a monastic member or a Hindu religious order. He is now a Catholic, and his book sets......