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Eupeptic Van

A.L. Rowse Masks and Façades: Sir John Vanbrugh, Madeleine Bingham (Allen and Unwin £6.95) What reason we have to be grateful to Vanbrugh! I love him for his great houses —......

Jesus Obscured

, 1 ".klan Brien Life of Jesus Christ Lord Longford ‘' ) idgwick and Jackson E3.50) Until the early years of the last century, little atte L . rnpt was made to construct a......