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An Old Master Himself

Norbert Lynton NEW LIGHT ON OLD MASTERS by E. H. Gombrich Phaidon, L19.95 G ombrich — Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich, but one name signals the phe- nomenon, like Concorde or......

Sense And Sensibility, No Persuasion

Francis King JANE AUSTEN by Tony Tanner Macmillan, f20.00 0 f the two 19th-century writers whom I frequently reread, Robert Browning is the most and Jane Austen the least in......