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According to popular legend, Cleopatra nearly vamped the Roman Empire to death. But if Cleopatra had been half as lucky in historians as she was in love, her reputation would now be very different. Such, at least, is the thesis of Biographer Ludwig's Cleopatra. A by-product of Ludwig's The Nile (TIME, Feb. 22), Cleopatra adds no new data to the little there is to go on: three lines from a letter of Antony's, one authentic bust. But Author Ludwig reopens the 2,000-year-old Cleopatra Case on the grounds that all contemporary...
...Massachusetts Historical Society, The American Academy of Arts, and The American Historical and Sciences Society include him as a member. Among his writings of the ancient world are "A History of the Ancient World," "The Roman Empire," and "Mystic Italy...
...Tercentenary Celebration Dr. Rostovtzeff received an honorary Litt. D. with the citation: "The social and economic historian of the Roman empire, whose fruitful study of aniquity accumulates for all who read centuries of rich experience...
With the growth of Greek Rite Catholicism in the U. S.-it now numbers 1,000,000 faithful with 300 churches-the Roman hierarchy instituted a subtle campaign to Latinize its conduct. Feeling that a minority of married priests might cause envy among celibate Catholic priests, Pope Pius X in 1907 issued an apostolic letter enjoining celibacy upon all priests laboring in the U. S. In the same year he established the first U. S. Greek Catholic diocese, sent Bishop Stephen Soter Ortynski to fill it and enforce the order. So incensed were the Uniats-claiming that by the Treaty...
THREE WAYS HOME - Sheila Kaye-Smith-Harper ($2.50). Contented account of how the author succeeded in her early ambition to become a Roman Catholic, a Sussex cottager, a prolific novelist...