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The Beatified Painter Who Covered The White Cloisters Of San

Marco with his visions has been fortunate in his fame, for, while the hearts of the devout have always been his, even the most modern critics allow the values of his art. Fro......

There Are Men, Says Cardinal Nicholas Of Cuss (the Vision

of God, translated from the Latin by Miss Emma Salter, Dent, 5s.), who have the skill to withdraw the life-giving spirit from their body and appear dead and without feeling. The......

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It is many years since letters were written of such grace and familiar liveliness as Sir Walter Raleigh's. Their qualities seem to have been immediately recognized, for Messrs.......

The Competition

THE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the most practical suggestions, written legibly on a postcard, on " If I were the Editor of the Spectator." The Editor will welcome......

Some Books Of The Week

The historically minded will find much to interest and more to annoy them in the two formidable volumes which Mr. Esme Wingfield-Stratford describes as The History of British......

What A Wonderful Ballet Might Be Based On Monsieur

de in Harpe's eighteenth-century poem " Tangu et Felime," now translated into English for the first time by Sir Frank Swettenham, and published under the title of Three Gifts......

An Enormous Amount Of Knowledge, Linguistic, Archaic, And

comparative, has gone to the composition of The Pentateuch : A Historical Record, by the Rev. W. T. Piker (Marshall, 31s. 6d.). Its aim is the conservative one of establishing......

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Anne is a very delightful woman in M. Maurois' new fantasy The Island of the Articoles (Cape, 5s.). She sails off in a small boat, alone with the hero, to seek adventure in the......

A Motor Show Competition

THE Editor offers a prize of two guineas for the best " Ode to a Baby Car " received before October 22nd. Entries should be as brief as possible.......