25 OCTOBER 1946, page 20

The Old Republic

Mucu misunderstanding between people speaking different languages comes from the confusion of words similar in form but far apart in meaning. So too there is a misleading way of......

A Journalistic Life

The Pageant of the Years. By Philip Gibbs. (Heinemann. 18s.) SIR PHILIP Glans' life has been, to use a conventional phrase, crowded with incident and it is a defect in his......

An Attack On Modern Art

Figures of Thought or Figures of Speech. Ananda Coomaraswamy. (Luzac. 10s. 6d.) WHEN Mr. Michael Ayrton argued in a broadcast that Picasso was a black magician, it was as though......