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Oil Colour

b onald Watt 1 , 4V er Play: The Tumultuous World of Ea s t I . 18;90-1973 Leonard Mosley eidenfeld and Nicolson £3,75) i her 1 )0 e is a curiously unpleasant taste to this Mr......

Confused Over Conrad

Stewart Conrad: The The Critical Heritage edited bv Norman Sherry (Routledge £5.95). In May 1963 Mr Sherry, then a lecturer in the University of Singapore, printed in the Review......

No Glorious Summer

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