10 DECEMBER 1994, page 46

How To Stop Worrying And Love The World

Bevis Hillier AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF HUMANITY by Theodore Zeldin Sinclair-Stevenson, £20, pp. 488 I f you 'did' Gerard Manley Hopkins for your A-levels in the 1950s, as I did,......

Cranach's Eve

The last of innocence, you'd say Perhaps, until you see the way That little finger nicely stretches Out, and that sparse foliage fetches Up across the groin. And whose......

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Juliet Townsend I t is always difficult to know whether to give a Christmassy book for Christmas. The problem is that by the time it is read the Christmas season will probably......