26 MARCH 1988, page 31

Chardin

Is it the lack of self that most of all Challenges eyes to stay And linger over the petals that will not fall Although they have some way Of suggesting that Chardin, had he......

Memory, Speak But Do Not Condemn

Anita Brookner A FAR CRY FROM KENSINGTON by Muriel Spark Constable, f9.95 A ctually, it is a far cry from South Kensington, where Mrs Hawkins has fur- nished rooms in a house in......

Attention Must Be Paid

Charles Glass CHILDREN OF THE SIEGE by Pauline Cutting Heinemann, £12.95, Pan, £3.50 W hen Dr Pauline Cutting burst into tears at the end of a particularly bloody day of battle......