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Speaking on an unannounced subject, Hilaire Belloc, English biographer and essayist, will address the League of Catholic Women at the Copley Plaza Hotel on Sunday at 3 o'clock. Students may purchase tickets for $1.00 at 8 de Wolfe Street. Admission prices at the door will...
SOME years ago when the average reader thought of English converts to the Roman Catholic Church, he immediately recalled Messrs. Belloc, Chesterton, and D.B. Wyndham Lewis; now he adds perforce the name of Mr. Dawson. Mr. Dawson resembles his three associates in many respects: he is an historian, for example, who endeavours to re-write the Whig historians, whose anti-Catholic bias is one of the disgraces of modern historiography. Unlike Messrs. Belloc and Chesterton, Mr. Dawson is imbued with the modern ideal of impartiality, and even in his attempt to secure justice for the faith he never leans over...
...CHIANTI FLASK - Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes- Longmans, Green...
...book is recommended without qualification to Belloc enthusiasts and to those with a taste for military history its appeal to others depends upon their attitude toward the historical work of the "third cleverest man in London...
There is, of course, the usual hearty enthusiasm for the Catholic Church and its efficacy as a unifying force in Europe during the lusty ages. And finally there is at its best the Belloc predilection for military history. In a sense, the whole book is an excuse for the bellicose English to write the tactical and strategic history of the Battle of Hastings (whose alternate title of "Senlac" he rejects). it is thrilling and exciting reading, even for a modern anti-war demonstrator. Harold, damned by the author for his fendal perfidy, draws his admiration for his generalship. He held...