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Fashions And Passions

Richard Shone BRITISH ART SINCE 1900 by Frances Spalding Thames & Hudson, f10.50 T his is the first general survey of 20th-century British art to have been pub- lished here for......

Gone With The Windsors

Frances Donaldson RAT WEEK by Osbert Sitwell Michael Joseph, f7.95 R at Week is the name of a poem by Osbert Sitwell written at the time that Edward VIII left his throne to......

The Way Of Ruth

It was like clear water or like clean air: No particular taste to it, no odour, no colour, nowhere anything put up in front or in back of it, so you saw clean through it and......