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Books

The Emergence of England By DAVID KNOWLES W E are often told of the gulf that exists between academic historians who may know all about their stuff but cannot get it across and......

Separation

Should it be hard to fall in love in Rome? There is the sky, Madonna piercing blue Hot, with a hint of thunder, like a muffled drum, And cool courtyards appearing unexpectedly......

Corvo's Folly

Don Renato. By Fr. Rolfe. (Chatto and Windus, 30s.) , EVEN poor Corvo didn't regard this peculiar historical exercise as a selling proposition on the grand scale. His Hadrian......

Sage Comments

Mencius. A new Translation Arranged and An- notated for the General Reader. By W. A. C. H. Dobson. (Toronto and O.U.P., 25s.) EVEN at the other place they. are often made aware......