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Four Figures Of An Anxious Age
By Barbara WALL FOUR ABSENTEES, by Rayner Heppenstall (Barrie & Rockliff, 13s. 6d.). I N this book Mr. Heppenstall scences of four twentieth Thomas. g ives his personal remini......
The Birth-pangs Of A New State
By Dr. IRENE MARINOFI NO ALTERNATIVE, by D. R. Elston (Hutchinson, 25s.). T HIS is the absorbing story of the first ten years of Jewish nationhood in Palestine. It takes the......
Churches
0 in PICTURES by Iris Conlay 5: THE FIRST OFFICIAL CHURCH 6 Emperor Constantine gave it equal rights with .0 . A D. 313 is the most important date in the 0 1 - 1-e history of......
The Single Minded Vision Of Cezanne
By IRIS CONLAY MOUNTAIN OF VICTORY: ii biography of Paul Channe, by Lawrence Hanson (Seeker and Warburg, 30s.). C EZANNE'S trubulent life was tragic and glorious, both together.......
Latest Novels, By Clare Simon
HIS FATHER'S PAST o UT of a current batch of new novels, with an unusually high all-round percertage of readability, I enjoyed myself most with Pamela Frankau's " Road Through......
Indispensable Guide To The Gnostics
By Fr. J. H. CREHAN, S.J. THE SECRET BOOKS OF THE EGYPTIAN GNOSTICS, by Jean Doresse, translated by Philip Mairet & Carter, 42s.). TT is related that when M. Peach, the great......
The 'poor Useless Friar' Of Padua
THE LATEST BOOKS, by Fr. W. J. Randall ST. ANTHONY AND HIS TIMES, by Mary Purcell (M. H. Gill, Dublin, 19s, 6d.). T HIS bio g raphy, like Alice Curtayne's "St. Catherine of......
Paperbacks
POUR recent paperbacks worth looking out for are the three POUR recent paperbacks worth science-fiction novels by An g lican reli g ious writer, C. S. Lewis, best known to......
Two-edged
TROUBLE wrm LICHEN, by I John Wyndham (Michael' Joseph, 13s. 6d.). N his latest essay in civilised science-fiction Mr. Wyndham the idea uses that scientific dis covery is, at......
Best Stamps Vatican City State Has Been
awarded an honorary citation for the beet issue of stamps in 1959 depictin g a reli g ious subject. The award, made by the Arohangel Gabriel World Union, a philatelic society......