2 OCTOBER 1953, page 44

Despite The Long Connection Of This Country With...

history and civilisation have not unnaturally been regarded as primarily a domain for the specialist. In seeking a form for a memorial volume to two great British scholars in......

Conquest. By Frances Fleetwood. (allen And Unwin. 21s.) '...

may easily be taken as a textbook by all who are interested in the theatre and in one of the oldest theatrical families of this country. Miss Fleetwood rounds off her book in......

A Few Years Ago, Captain Russell Grenfell Wrote A Book

on the chase of the Bismarck. Mr. Woodward's book derives its theme from the fact that there was never a similar chase of the Tirpitz. For the fate of her predecessor, and the......

Letters And Papers From Prison. By Dietrich Bonhoeffer....

6d.) BONHOEFFER was one of Germany's Christian martyrs. A pastor of the Confessing Church, he was arrested in April, 1943, and hanged two years later in the Gestapo prison of......

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THE MONTH'S REPRINTS A HANDSOME book has been made of Hans Andersen : Forty-Two Stories (Faber & Faber. 25s.), a reprint of the translations by M. R. James published in 1930.......