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Powers Of Fiction

A Bachelor's Children. By Hal Porter. (Angus and Robertson, 18s.) PARTY politics in Australia are as rewarding a field for the novelist-exposer as anywhere else. And the......

Profane Perfections

Renaissance Painting. Introduction by Franco Russoli. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 12s. 6d.) THESE two paperbacks are 'he first in an ambitious series of twelve. They are slightly......