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Piero : A Masterpiece

THE reader who loves Piero may well find that this magnificent, meticulous yet always vivid book serves as a kind of extension of Piero's own achievement ; that Sir Kenneth has,......

The First Crusade

History of the Crusades: Vol. I. The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. By Steven Runciman. (Cambridge University Press. 25s.) THE story of the......

Mr. Greene As Essayist

WHAT Mr. Greene admits, nostalgically but unsentimentally, having lost is the child's capacity to surrender to the thrill, the revelation and the enduring influence of what he......