2 FEBRUARY 1985, page 24

Pastor Into Scholar

Harold Acton The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance Jacob Burckhardt Edited by Peter Murray (Secker & Warburg £30) - E:very few years since my fervent child- ' ' hood I......

Three Voices

The first one mused: 'Funny things, memories. My brother bowed over his aeroplanes. I crept out. But I'd left a blood-splash On the shavings. I'd been hewing the brass Off a......

Tolerance Or Truth?

Piers Paul Read How Can We Know? A. N. Wilson (Hamish Hamilton £6.95) Tt is hazardous to write about one's 'religious convictions because the soul's experience so often seems......