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Life Studies

ROY STRONG Pictures in the Royal Collection: Later Georgian Pictures Oliver Millar (Phaidon, 2 vols £12) Pietro Longhi Terisio Pignatti (Phaidon £12) Chardin Georges Wildenstein......

Books

Great Scott HUGH TREVOR-ROPER Anniversaries have their uses: that arbitrary impulse may start an overdue swing of the pendulum. The bi-centenary of Sir Walter Scott's birth is......