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The Limits Of Power

Malise Ruthven THE MIDDLE EAST: 2000 YEARS OF HISTORY FROM THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY TO THE PRESENT DAY by Bernard Lewis Weidenfeld, £20, pp. 433 T wards the end of the 18th......

Rubens Comes First

David Ekserdjian THE NATIONAL GALLERY COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE by Christopher Baker and Tom Henry National Gallery Publications, £35, pp. 790 W hen Neil Macgregor was......