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Possessions

Francis King The Bachelor of Arts; The Dark Room; The English Teacher R. K. Narayan (Heinemann £4.95, £4.50 and £4.50) In an essay in his Indian Writing in English K. R.......

Arts

Poor man's Titian? Bruno Wollheim Modest, down-to-earth, a shade dry but with a determined, even stubborn, eye, and jaw: the qualities of the first portrait we see on entering......