1 JANUARY 1954, page 33

An Historian Of Culture

Medieval Essays. By Christopher Dawson. (Sheed & Ward. 16s.) given of learning and sane judgment, and when we are far away at sea among celebrities such as al-Mu'tamin and......

A Good Life

MR. YOUNG, who was once a master at Eton, describes some of his former pupils who fell in the first world war as a " generation of happy natural aristocrats to whom the world......

The Beauty Of Wreckage

THIS book has some of the splendour, the astringency and the plod- ding thoroughness of Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. Just as Burton in his majestic treatise set before us......