20 JUNE 1970, page 21

Arts Sake In The Saloon

PENELOPE HOUSTON A few years ago, one of the Italian, or spaghetti, westerns borrowed fairly liberally from a Japanese (or suki-yaki?) western. Such, these days, are the......

Art

Unchaste & fair BRYAN ROBERTSON If Gainsborough sets up fresh tensions between figures and an enveloping or subsidiary landscape, Degas, now shown splendidly in a loan......

A Hundred Years Ago

From the 'Spectator,' 18 June 1870—Dickens was privately buried in Westminster Abbey on Tuesday last . . . It is somewhat curious that his death occurred on the fifth......