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A Babbler In An Antique Land

Philip Glazebrook SOUTH FROM EPHESUS: TRAVELS IN AEGEAN TURKEY by Brian Sewell Century, £12.95 T he setting of this book is the marvel- lous 'landscape with ruins' of south-......

Losing Their Heads

Linda Kelly ROMANTIC AFFINITIES: PORTRAITS FROM AN AGE, 1780-1830 by Rupert Christiansen Bodley Head, .06 T his book is not so much a history of the romantic movement though it......