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Neo-classical Attitudes

Timothy Bainbridge The Greek Revival J. Mordaunt Crook (John Murray E10) The author calls this book, which is subtitled ' Neo-Classical Attitudes in British Architecture, 1760......

Minds Are A Problem

Anthony Price The Nature of Things Anthony Quinton (Routledge & Kegan Paul E4.50) What gives things their identity? That is, what makes one thing different from another, and......

Midnight

No sound but snow falling, the sunken city of the world drifting silently under its crosses. In far darkness a siren begins to wail softly, for this is the land of the living......