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Some Useful Hints For The Better Ordering Of The Universe

Nigel Spivey FLESH AND THE IDEAL: WINCKELMANN AND THE ORIGINS OF ART HISTORY by Alex Potts Yale, £25, pp. 294 F or the sake of a sojourn in Rome, he converted to Catholicism.......

Grubbier And Grubbier

Francis King PARTIAL ECLIPSE by Lesley Glaister Hamish Hamilton, £14.99, pp. 216 T he narrator and protagonist of this dis- comforting novel, Jennifer, is in prison for a crime......