THE story of 'Europe throughout the Ages' is ' now coming recognizably into touch with our own time. In the first part of the series Mr. Norman Baynes described the birth of Western civilization in Greece and Rome; in the second Mies Eileen Power carried the story on through the chaos that succeeded Rome to the decline of mediaeval Christendom, and now Mr. Somervell opens the third part with an account of the Renaissance that vast and composite movement of the human mind which produced Botticelli and Machiavelli, Savonarola and the Medici, the palace of tho Louvre and St. Peter's in Rome ; loft Europe radically severed from the Middle Ages, and (however hard it may be to see the connection) ushered in the civilization of today.