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Politics And The Bedchamber

A. L. Rowse Sweet Robin: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester 1533-1588 Derek Wilson (Hamish Hamilton pp. 355, £18) Of all eminent Elizabethans the Queen's prime favourite,......

Master Pieces

Harold Acton Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny (Yale University Press pp. 376, £20) The centennial resurrection......