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Something For Everybody

J. G. Links MODERN PAINTERS by John Ruskin edited and abridged by David Barrie Deutsch, £17.95 M odem Painters is a huge and wonderful book — if five disparate volumes,......

Tripping Westward Over Himself

P.N. Furbank CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD: A PERSONAL MEMOIR by John Lehmann Weidenfeld, £12.95 T hat both for Auden and for Isherwood their famous exodus to the USA in January 1939......