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Page 6 from 17th August 1935Know Your Own Times Religkm and the Modern State. By Christopher Dawson. (Sheed and Ward, 6s. net.) Reviewed by F. R. HOARE. " When the......
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Page 10 from 23rd November 1979'it Chronicle The Italian Job is hard to credit . . . A 1.1. RUMOURS iotwithstandirI1 I am still alive and well and living in Rome as the Vatican......
In A Few Words
Page 4 from 7th January 1949The New Year Honours T HE greater democratisation of Honours and the growing desuetude of the Catholic Who's Who render the discernment of Catholic......
Bidding At Contract
Page 4 from 3rd January 1936Contract Without Conventions. By A. E. Manning-Foster. (Seeley, Service. 6ss This book has a sub-title, " A Simple System of Bidding at Contract......
Insights Of A Spiritual Giant At Home In The World
Page 12 from 30th April 1999Charterhouse Chronicle Frank Longford I MET LYTTON STRACHEY at an election night party in 1931. I asked him whom he had voted for at the......
Bluff King Guthrie
Page 5 from 15th May 1953KING HENRY VIII (The Old Vic) TN the richly and pleasantly re- 1 -decorated bar we discussed the authorship of the play. Which parts were......
Learning To Love The Victorians
Page 9 from 11th January 2002Quentin de la Bedoyere recommends a book that reveals the extent of our debt to our sexually frustrated forefathers. But, alas, the covering of......
The Irish Book Of The Dead
Page 16 from 27th March 2009Great Irish Lives EDITED BY CHARLES LYSAGHT THE TIMES / HARPER COLLINS, £12.99 T he Times had a reputation, especially during the 19th century,......
Obituary
Page 14 from 31st March 1939Fr. Cuthbert, 0.S.F.C. A GREAT FRANCISCAN WORKER The death, at Assisi on March 22, of Fr. Cuthbert, 0.S.F.C., at the age of 73, whose grave......
Jean Cocteau
Page 3 from 11th March 1955An English writer tackles a queer fish in a strange underworld JEAN COCTEAU, by Margaret Crosland (Peter Nevill, 15s.). A N ohvicius handicap in......