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Building At Oxford

Oxford Stone. By W. J. Arkell. (Faber and Faber. 25s.) ARC.HITECTS nowadays work mostly in substitute materials, and feel about stone much the same as they feel about vintage......

The Ghent Altarpiece

ON May 6th, 1432, there was set up in the church of St. John at Ghent the great painting which is known by common consent as the Ghent altarpiece. The Adoration of the Lamb (or......

Britain Before Caesar

Prehistoric Britain. By Jacquetta and Christopher Hawkes. (Chatto and Windus. 15s.) "PREHISTORIC "—the schoolboy who in 1947 finds that he has exactly 2,000 years of British......