20 MARCH 1971, page 20

Malcolm Cormack On Alphabetical Art

The editor has taken trouble to emphasise that the new Companion to Art has been de- signed as a non-specialist introduction to the fine arts in the narrow sense of painting and......

Storm Jameson On I. Compton-burnett

The Last and the First Ivy Compton-Burnett (Gollancz £1.40) The singular position of Ivy Compton- Burnett, as novelist, in the literature of the past five decades, is not in......

Peter Fleming On The Last Of The Tsars

A Baconian manque, Mr Richards sets out to prove that the Russian Imperial family, so far from being massacred in a basement in Ekaterinberg on the night of 16-17 July 1918,......

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