14 MAY 1948, page 20

The First Alphabet ?

DR. DIR1NGER is already well known to scholars for his valuable work on Israelite inscriptions and for his L'Alfabeto nella Storia della Civiltd (i937), and he now appeals to an......

Newman : The First Half

Young Mr. Newman. By Maisie Ward. (Sheed and Ward. 21s.) IN this long book Miss Ward confines herself to the forty-four years from Newman's birth to "his journey's end" in 1845.......

Two Letter-writers

Two Quiet Lives. By David Cecil. (Constable. 12s. 6d.) A. How d'you like this new thing of Cecil's ? B. Enormously. But I can't see why he should call either Dorothy Osborne's......