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Books

Not a lonely genius Philip Hensher REMBRANDT'S EYES by Simon Schama Allen Lane, £30, pp. 768 S imon Schema's enormous and exhaust- ing book is a wilfully old-fashioned exami-......

Every Picture A Person From Porlock

Mary Keen BRITAIN THEN AND NOW by Philip Ziegler Weidenfeld, £25, pp. 432 N ancy Mitford's Sun King was the first example of the serious illustrated book. Since then, readers......