3 APRIL 1964, page 24

A Christian Hobbes

THOMAS HOBBES was both a Christian and a materialist, a combination of beliefs so bizarre that many of his seventeenth-century contem- poraries considered him a secret atheist.......

Stalin Did

WE shall presumably never know how much of this book was in fact written by Ivan Maisky. He is said, by those who knew him, to have been a most intelligent man with a genuine......

Milk And Water

PERHAPS I should declare I have always been allergic to C. S. Lewis's religious writings. This new book, published since his death, is very much the mixture as before: the sound......