26 DECEMBER 1952, page 22

It Is Nearly Sixty Years Since Charles Rennie Mackintosh...

what is now acclaimed as the first important architectural monument to the New Movement in Europe. That was the Glasgow School of Art of which, in the concluding words of his......

My Europe. By Sir Robert Bruce Lock- Hart. (putnam. 16s.)

DISREGARDING a friend's advice that where you have been happy never return, Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart recently revisited seven of the free countries of Europe. He found......

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Shorter Notices

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