12 DECEMBER 1931, page 28

Two Saints And A Batch Of Cardinals In Order To

make readable a short popular life of St. Augustine qnly one thing is needful—the writer must be an accom- plished quoter. Herr Lesaar has that qualification. The miraculous......

The Emperor Augustus Who, We Are Told, Fished " Animi

laxandi causa," would, no doubt, have also read fishing books just as we do, in season and especially out of season, for the same reason—if such things had existed. He might......

Fiction

Two New Novelists IT is one of the pleasures of reviewing, which experience in no way diminishes, to come upon a first novel of real quality. There are two on the list to-day,......