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Cluny And The Twelfth Century

Cluniac Art ot the Romanesque Period, By Joan Evans. (Cam bridge University Press. £3 los.) MISS JOAN EVANS'S book on Cluniae art is yet another panopl added to the trophy which......

Two Who Got Out

Why I Escaped. By Peter Pirogov. (Harvill Press. I as. 6d.) IN 1839 the Marquis de Custine published some observations o n his travels through the Imperial Russia of Nicholas I,......

The Holy City

Rome. Fragments in the Sun. By Laurence Scarfe. (Hutchinson. 123. 6d.) • As subject-matter Rome is inexhaustible. Historians and travel- agents, poets and professional guides......