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Rival Ideals

Gandhi and Stalin. By Louis Fischer. (Gollancz. 10s. 6d.) MR. LOUIS FISCHER is a better journalist and narrative historian than philosopher. His monumental work, The Soviets in......

The Bacchae : A New Interpretation

Euripides and Dionysus : An Interpretation of the Bacchae. By R. P. Winnington-Ingram. (Cambridge University Press. 15s.) THE Bacchae stands out among Greek plays as a perennial......

A Garden Of Wisdom

The Oxford Junior Encyclopaedia : Vol. 1. Mankind. (Oxford University Press. 30s.) IT is three centuries all but ten years since Comenius published his Orbis Pictus (hoc est......