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Ancient Indian Treasury
The Vedic Experience by Raimando Panikkar (Darton, Longman & Todd, £20). Twenty pounds is a staggering price to pay for one book. However, Panikkar's anthology of Indian......
Prayers In Stone
Cathedrals of Europe by Josef Gruncnfelder (Elsevier: Phaedon £5.95) This book is a brief guide to some 21 European cathedrals. from England to Czechoslovakia. It notes a broad......
An Epic Of Australia
The Salvado Memoirs by Dom R. Salvado, OSB, Rome, 1851; translated into English by E. J. Stormon, Si. (University of Western Australia Press $13.95) In 1851 an obscure Spanish......
Maugham's Cruelty And Compassion
Somerset Maugham and His World by Frederic Raphael (Thames and Hudson £3.95) Frederic Raphael read "Of Iluman Bondage" when he was 15, and has identified with Maugham ever......
Island Portrait
Beautiful „lust! by Lillian Beckwith (Arrow 60p) In the latest of her books about life in the Scottish island of Bruach, Lillian Beckwith describes colourfully and humorously......
Mature Murder
Last Ditch by Ngaio Marsh (Collins Crime Club £3.50) Reference books tell tire that Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in 1899. I don't believe it, She still writes in the full flush of......
Holy See's Time Of Dilemma
The Emergence of Political Catholicism in Italy by John N. Molony (Croom Held £7.95) In a short 'but extraordinarily interesting book, Professor Molony fills a gap long visible......
Difficult Questions On Rape
In 1975 there was a judgment at the London Central Criminal Court (the Old Bailey) which seems to have established that it is a complete defence for the rapist, however......
Roots Of Faith
What Difference Does Jesus Make? b F. J. Sheed (Sheed and Ward £2.50) The unifying theme of this book is, as the title suggests, the difference Christ makes, or should make, to......
Wrong Setting For Caesar
WHAT is the matter with Shakespeare? Are the ingredients of our greatest playwright not good enough any longer? Is that why the marketing director Peter Dews has decided we need......
`myth' Book To Be Answered
Bishop Christopher Butler, Bishop in Herfordshire, is one of the team of four leading theologians who have contributed to the book "The Truth of God Incarnate" to be published......
New Fiction Mary Radcliffe
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa (Jonathan Cape, £4.50) Horrifying book about a Latin American dictator......