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As It Was In The Beginning

Richard Cobb PRELUDE TO TERROR: THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY AND THE FAILURE OF CONSENSUS 1789-1791 by Norman Hampson Blackwell, f19.50, pp.199 hen, despite so much early prom- ise,......

The Real And The Ideal

Michael Kitson THE ETCHINGS OF CLAUDE LORRAIN by Lino Mannocci Yale, £50, pp.310 F or all the supposed modern preference for assertiveness in art and despite the neglect of his......