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Book reviews: Elizabeth Bowen and the lost art of love, letters

Book reviews: Elizabeth Bowen and the lost art of love, letters
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Ian Robertson, Hispanophile and author of engaging and scholarly Blue Guides to European countries – obituary

Ian Robertson, Hispanophile and author of engaging and scholarly Blue Guides to European countries – obituary There was hardly a church or cloister in Spain which Robertson did not write about, helped by his wife Marie Thérèse, his manager and driver Robertson: a special interest in the British travel writers who ventured to Spain, notably Richard Ford Ian Robertson, the travel writer, who has died in Arles aged 92, regarded swathes of continental Europe as his “Empire”; well he might, as thousands of appreciative connoisseurs travelled across Spain, Portugal, France, Cyprus, Ireland, Austria and Switzerland with his scholarly Blue Guides. Robertson wrote nine Blue Guides, injecting each with an engaging combination of acerbic wit, artistic detail and encyclopaedic knowledge.

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Remembering Maurice Baring, literary convert and beloved friend of Chesterton

December 14 marks the 75 th anniversary of the death of Maurice Baring, literary convert, bestselling novelist and beloved friend of G. K. Chesterton. To commemorate the anniversary and to celebrate the legacy of this great but neglected Catholic writer, Joseph Pearce was interviewed by Jan Franczak for the Polish journal, PCh24.pl. This is the interview’s first publication in English. Jan Franczak: In our conversation about Hilaire Belloc we mentioned briefly Maurice Baring (1874-1945), a friend of Chesterton and Belloc. Baring, who died exactly 75 years ago, was as prolific as his two friends: a poet, a playwright, a novelist and in addition a diplomat and a polyglot. However, it seems that not only in Poland but also in the English-speaking world most people rather remember the “Chesterbelloc”, as Bernard Shaw called Baring’s two friends.

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