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The Inspired Nose

Gogol. By aivid Magarshack. (Faber, 36s.) G000L belongs to the miraculous first generation of modern Russian writers that included Pushkin, Lermontov and Aksakov; those whose......

Blunt Soldier

Violent Truce: A Military Observer looks at the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1951-1955. By Com- mander E. H. Hutchison, USNR. (Calder, . 16s.) r is a pity that Commander Hutchison has......

From Wittenberg To Trent

A History of the Council of Trent. By Hubert Jedin. Translated from the German by Dom Ernest Graf, OSB. Volume 1. (Nelson, 70s.) A WARM welcome will be given by all students of......