18 OCTOBER 1963, page 25

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......

War And Peace

WITH a notable few exceptions, a woman's con- ception of a battlefield relies upon books and films, both documentary and fictional. There has been no lack of either in the last......

Look On His Works

A tvEm life of Cecil Rhodes needs a certain amount of justification. The list of Rhodes books is already colossal and , contains a dozen or more full-length studies of more or......