28 DECEMBER 1956, page 19

Marching Song

DE VALERA AND THE MARCH OF A NATION. By Mary C. Bromage. (Hutchinson, 25s.) `SITTING around a turf blaze at the hearth of one of Ireland's old country houses is conducive to......

Italophiles And Italomaniacs

ITALIAN ART, LIFE AND LANDSCAPE. By Bernard Wall. (Heinemann, 21s.) THE Victorian colonisation of Italy has in retrospect its comic side. The fifth column of maiden ladies......

Parish Work

THE parish is dead. That is the ,truth in many parts of Britain. One in ten people, at the most, go to church. And they largely represent middle-class ecclesiasticism. About one......

Pax Americana

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD AFFAIRS 1954. By Richard P. Stebbins. (Harper and Brothers, 48s.) UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY 1945-1955. By William Reitzel, Morton A. Kaplan and......