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Pleasuredomes

George Hutchinson The Chinese Garden Maggie Keswick (Academy Editions .£15.00) Chinese gardens are very different from our own. They are 'wild' rather than symmetrical in the......

Skin Game

Elisabeth Whipp Beauty and Medicine R. AronBrunetiere, translated from the French by Joanna Kilmartin (Cape £4.95) Since Adam delved and Eve span, Woman has tried to look her......

Grand Scale

Francis King The Virgin in the Garden A.S.13Yatt (Chatto & Windus £5.95) From time to time a novel appears that cries out for evaluation, not by a reviesve 1 , 5 r like myself,......