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Bringing It All Together

Celina Fox COURT, CLOISTER AND CITY: THE ART AND CULTURE OF CENTRAL EUROPE 1450-1800 by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 25.00, pp. 576 S ome books are launched......

Into White

Passing from day to day has the eyes move Along a colour-chart, flesh-pink to white, But each rectangle with you pausing less. For example, the late August sunlight —......

The Scholar's Life Assailed

Andrew Crawshaw WALTER OAKESHOTT: A DIVERSITY OF GIFTS by J. Dancy Michael Russell, £24.00, pp. 370 I t was Walter Oakeshott who first told me as a boy why Virgil was chosen to......