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MECHTILD OF MAGDEBURG, a German nun who wrote in the vernacular before Eckhart and before Dante, was frequently quoted by Evelyn Underhill in her books on mysticism. Now for the......
One Could Probably Sail The Seven Seas Before Finding Anyone
better qualified to write about the Cutty Sark than Mr. Alan Villiers. He combines an old-fashioned worship of sail with a style that is strong, forthright and fresh. Certainly,......
A Word In Edgeways. By Ivor Brown. -(cape. 7s. 6d.)
MANY things can be learned—would' that one could remember them all—from the latest (is it indeed to be the last ?) of Mr. Brown's word-books, but the chief pleasure lies in......
It Is Now Distinctly Unfashionable To Regard Lucrezia...
the " Messalina of the Middle Ages," which was the official way of describing her a hundred years ago. Yet at the same time English biographers, probably daunted by the dark......
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