20 FEBRUARY 1953, page 21

The Dividing Ocean

THE description of the impact of the old world on the visitor from the new is one of the classic themes of American literature. So is the description of the European milieu,......

In Next Week's " Spectator" Sir Gerald Kelly, P.r.a.,...

a new Pbaidon edition of " Renoir " ; Margbanita Laski "The Brontë Story" by Margaret Lane; and the Bishop of Soutbwell "According to the Scriptures "by Dr. C. H. Dodd.......

Books Of The Week

Lucrezia Borgia The Marriage at Ferrara. By Simon Harcourt-Smith. (John Murray. 21s.) BYRON, wandering by chalice into the Ambrosian Library at Milan, found his attention......