7 NOVEMBER 1992, page 51

From Genius To Money Machine

George Melly DALI by Meredith Etherington-Smith Sinclair-Stevenson, £20, pp. 553 E dward James, Dali's early patron and putative lover, dismissed him in the Eight- ies as 'a......

Too True To Be Good

Cressida Connolly THE FURIES by Janet Hobhouse Bloomsbury, £15.99, pp. 296 T ime was when half the fun of romans ii clef lay in guessing which real-life persons were the models......