11 MAY 1929, page 32

Mark Twain Was A Baconian, As Mr. James M. Beck

reminds us in his preface to Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton's attractive book on Links between Shakespeare and the Law (Faber and .Gwyer, 12s. 6d.). And the otherwise shrewd......

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(Continued from page 745.) As if to drive home the fact that the Church is very much alive, the London diocese has started on a literary venture which deserves every......

Art In The - Sale-rooms

EVERYONE who strolled into .Christie's on May 2nd must have been impressed by the - crowd of patient sightseers who waited at least two hours to seethe Portland Vase put up to......

In Bygone Days, It Is Said, Clergymen Who Had No

great gift of eloquence used to buy their sermons ready-made. The Columbia Graphophone Company has now performed similar service for Parliamentary candidates who are doubtful of......

Answers To Questions On Italian History

1:- Alaric, King of the Goths.--;--2. Nicholas Breakspear (Had' rian IV).-3. A.D. 697.-4. A plan for the simultaneous assassi- nation of Lorenzo de Medici and his brother......