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The Humanism Of Erasmus

Erasmus of Rotterdam. By J. Huizinga. (Phaidon Press. 12s. 6d.) AMONG a number of pictures with which this valuable book is illus- trated, there are three portraits which......

Fiction

The Commander Comes to Dine. By Mario Soldati. Translated from the Italian. (Lehmann. 12s. 6d.) FIVE sound, intelligent volumes of fiction. Each of them, I fancy, somebody's......

Church Tourists The Habit Of Making Excursions In The...

pausing to visit every parish church encountered, goes back at least well into the eighteenth century. Such " church crawling," to those addicted to it, is one of the purest of......