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More Than The Sums Of His Past

David Nokes SIR JOHN VANBRUGH A BIOGRAPHY by Kerry Downes Sidgwick & Jackson, f20 K erry Downes gives the title 'Num- bers' to an early chapter in this new biography of Sir John......

The Embarrassment Of Riches

Peter Quennell AN INTERPRETATION OF DUTCH CULTURE IN THE GOLDEN AGE by Simon Schama Collins f19.95 I n his preface to this extremely substan- tial book, which, with its......