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The Philosophical Eye

The Concept of a Person. By A. J. Ayer. (Mac- millan, 30s.) PHILOSOPHY, like other kinds of investigation, can be carried on at many different levels of generality. One could......

Formalist Millennium

The Essence of Chinese Painting. By Roger Goepper. Translated by Michael Bullock. (Lund Humphries, £5 12s. 6d.) IT is only fifty-five years since the first book in a European......

Life Into Art

A Peopled Landscape. By Charles Tomlinson. (O.U.P., 16s.) Collected Poems 1930-1963. By John Lehmann. (Eyre . and Spottiswoode, 18s.) THE meditation of an aborted woman, a......