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Fashions And Passions

Richard Shone BRITISH ART SINCE 1900 by Frances Spalding Thames & Hudson, f10.50 T his is the first general survey of 20th-century British art to have been pub- lished here for......

The Deviousness Of Slim Janie

Geoffrey Wheatcroft JAN CHRISTIAN SMUTS: THE CONSCIENCE OF A SOUTH AFRICAN by Kenneth Ingham Weidenfeld & Nicolson, f14.95 H ow did Smuts get away with it? His career can be......