26 APRIL 1986, page 38

The Uses Of Dialogue

Renford Bambrough ACASTOS: TWO PLATONIC DIALOGUES by Iris Murdoch Chatto & Windus, £8.95 Nose" T om Stoppard says that he writes dia' logue because it is the only respectable......

An Elusive Sitter

John Jolliffe JOHN SINGER SARGENT: HIS PORTRAIT by Stanley Olson Macmillan, £16.95 S argent was born in Florence in 1856. His parents, who came from Philadelphia, had settled......