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The Miniatures Of Hilliard

A Lecture on Nicholas Hilliard. By John Pope-Hennessy. (Home and Van Thal. 10s. 6d.) WE have emerged from the Age of Transition in which we floundered unhappily for so long, and......

Communism Takes Over

The Struggle Behind the Iron Curtain. By Ferenc Nagy. Trans- lated by Stephen K. Swift. (Macmillan, 30s.) Oh, My Country. By Josef Josten. (Latimer House. 12s. 6d.) THE first of......

Caterpillars

IT was Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680), the Dutchman, who, in 1669, offered the first logical account of the transformations of insects and other animals. In his General Natural......