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FRENCH PAINTING AND THE NINETEENTH - CENTURY By James Laver This book (Batsford, ars.) must be given some welcome, since we are told on the dust-cover that the author regards......
Cooking And Curing By Oriana Haynes
Described as a " Testament of Food," this is a personal anthology of recipes from soup to savoury. It is neither a standard cookery book nor a collection of curiosities, but......
Pericles
By . Compton Mackenzie It was Pericles who established Athens as the material, intellectual and spiritual leader of all Hellas. But more than this it was he who planted within......
Giovanni Di Paolo By John Pope-hennessy
The blurb on Mr. Pope-Hennessy's book (Chatto and Windus, ars.) boldly states that it is " the most important post- War contribution to the study offifteenth- century painting......
Vermeer By Philip Hale This Is A Book (medici Society,
2 is.) spoilt by having no plan.' It is fundamentally an appreciation of one artist by another and as such is of interest, though of course many of the judgements (such as the......
Eton Portrait By Bernard Fergusson
Mr. Fergusson has succeeded in an almost impossible task. He has set out to describe, simply and with exactitude, the whole life of Eton—boys, masters, work, games, " notions "......
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