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New Novels

Family size Maurice CAPITANCHIK Tamara Geoffrey Dutton (Collins 25s) The New Yorkers Hortense Calisher (Cape 45s) The Bag Sol Yurick (Gollancz 42s) Sick Friends Ivan Gold......

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......

Hard Truth

Martin SEYMOUR-SMITH The Art of Sylvia Plath: A Symposium edited by Charles Newman (Faber 50s) The suicide of Sylvia Plath in 1963, and the publication of the poems she had......