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Castles In Spain

STUART HOOD In 1937 1 won a prize of fifteen shillings for designing a poster. It was my first and last attempt at design. The theme was 'Food for Spain.' Perhaps I drew my......

Shorter Notices

A History of Children's Reading and Litera- ture Alec Ellis (Pergamon Press 35s). Concise, informative and sobering account of working- class education, the books available for......

Space, Time And Matisse Arts

BRYAN ROBERTSON One of my favourite images of any artist is of the eighty-two year old Matisse seen standing sideways in the middle of his hotel-studio at Nice, dressed in baggy......