16 DECEMBER 1949, page 10

Voortrekker Monument

By G. H. CALPIN Durban T HE year 1949 will surely go down in South African history as the Afrikaners' year, a sort of annus mirabilis in retro- spect. It has proved notable for......

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French Landscape

By M. H. MMULLTON Cc AINTING," wrote a Frenchman, " is nothing but an image of disembodied values, for it represents only the arrange- ments. proportions and forms of things,......