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Sir Philip Sidney, The Shepherd Knight Roger Howell...

Pastoral PR ROY STRONG As a finicky old portrait busybody my mind always sinks into my toecaps when I open a biography and see as frontispiece an uncap- tioned engraved portrait......

Thorpe's Delight

BARRY HUMPHRIES The Italian Ann Radcliffe edited with an intro- duction by Frederick Garber (oup 35s) ISABELLA THORPE: 'When you have finished Udolpho, we will read The Italian......