We Know Sir John Hawkins Was " Un- Clubbable," And
we know that he got his revenge on Johnson for the epithet by writing the Doctor's life ; beyond that, and a few scattered references in the pages of Boswell, most of us do not......
After Mr. Bullock's Masterly Work On Hitler We Might Have
hoped to be spared further biographies of Nazi leaders which are bound to involve the most tedious repetition of the history of the Third Reich. In some years' time there will......
St. Francis Xavier. By James Brodrick, S.j. (burns Oates....
ST. FRANCIS XAVIER (1506-1552), who is famous in Europe and throughout the East, but who is much less well-known in England, was a Basque gentleman and one of the first......
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Folk Tales From Korea. By Zong In-sob. (routledge. 21s.)...
ZONG IN-SoB's admirable collec- tion of Korean folk-tales and fables transports us to a world of ceremonious and cultured behaviour whose elegant, but heavy, etiquette is......
Shorter Notices
EVER since the publication of his fascinating study, The Commercial Empire of the St. Lawrence, discriminating people have real- ised .that in Donald Creighton the Univer- sity......
Little Book Of Eternal Wisdom And Little Book Of Truth.
By Henry Suso. Trans- lated with an Introduction and Notes by James M. Clark. (Faber. 18s.) AMONG the mystics of the fourteenth century, Suso stands out for the poetry in his......
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