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Cold Comfort World

Man on Earth. By Jacquetta Hawkes. (Cresset Press. 21s.) GOETHE once said to Eckermann that the important thing was not to . try to solve the riddles of the universe, but to ask......

Night And The Gargoyle

Michelangelo: The Tomb of Julius H. By Charles de Tolnay. (O.U.P., E10.) Romanesque Sculpture in Italy. By G. H. Crichton (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 50s.). MR. DE TOINAY'S book......