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Sargent And The Bitch Goddess

John Singer Sargent. By Charles Merrill Mount. (Cresset Press, 30s.) THIS detailed, 300-page biography was under- taken as a labour of love by Mr. Mount, a young American......

Pacific Pre-history

Easter Island: A Stone-Age Civilisation of the Pacific. By Alfred Metraux. Translated by Michael Bullock. (Deutsch, 21s.) EASTER ISLAND was discovered by the Western European......

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The Accused By CHRISTOPHER SYKES T HE year 1815 bears a close and therefore somewhat misleading resemblance to 1919 and 1945. One important thing all three years had in common :......