21 JANUARY 1949, page 26

Religion And Social Life Madame Swetchine. By M. V....

(Browne and Nolan. 8s. 6d.) SOPHIA SOYMONOV, who was married at nineteen to the gentle, elderly and courtly general Swetchine, was born in Moscow in 1782. Her father was rich,......

Johnson As Jurist Augustine Birreu, Once Said That, When...

in conversation or goaded by folly, Johnson was capable of anything. That possibly accounts for the highly unusual views expressed by Johnson on what a judge might properly do......

1848

The Opening of an Era: 1848. An Historical Symposium, Edited by Francois Fetjts. (Allan Wingate. 21s.) LAST year saw a spate of publications, especially in French, designed to......