17 DECEMBER 1988, page 39

Humorous Books

Failures more attractive than success Richard Ingrams W hat an opportunity has been missed with The Essential Osbert Lancaster (Bar- rie & Jenkins, £15.95, pp.192)! Someone had......

Art Books

Volumes at an exhibition David Ekserdjian h e most obvious way to organise the shopping list for the annual Christmas round-up of art books is chronologically, but all that that......