Shorter Notices
Lady Louisa Conolly. By Brian FitzGerald. (Staples Press. i cs.) THIS eighteenth-century biography will be much enjoyed by the large public that despises novels because they are......
Vindication Of Ruskin. By J. Howard Whitehouse. (allen...
in. os.) MR. WHITEHOUSE is President of the Ruskin Society, and is under- standably anxious that Ruskin should in no way be traduced. He feels that Admiral James in The Order of......
Fiction
The House by the Medlar Tree. By Giovanni Verga. Translated from the Italian by Eric Mosbacher. (Weidenteld and Nicolson, los. 6c1.) Quorum. By Phyllis Bentley. (Gollancz. tos.......
The First Volume Of Father . Copleston's Work Covered...
from the pre-Socratierto the neo-Platonists. The second volume covers the mediaeval philosophers down to the end of the thirteenth century. It is somewhat longer than the first......