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Facing The Future

Evelyn Joll THE GEORGIANS: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PORTRAITURE AND SOCIETY by Desmond Shawe-Taylor Barrie & Jenkins, £35, pp. 239 B lake's dismissive question: 'Of what consequence......

Hardly A Falute

P. J. Kavanagh COLLECTED LETTERS OF IVOR GURNEY edited by R. K. R. Thornton Carcanet, £25, pp. 578 I t is still difficult to guess whether the general reader has done more than......