4 JUNE 1988, page 33

The Leopard Changes His Spot

Robert Rubens THE DOLLS' ROOM by Lorenc Villalonga translated by Deborah Bonner Deutsch, £11.95, pp.247 T here is no doubt that life on an island can have strange effects on......

The Heron Urner's Birds, By David Hill (phaidon, £8.95, Pp.

64), celebrates the acquisition in 1985 by Leeds City Art Gallery of 20 watercolours of birds made by Turner between 1810 and 1820 for his patron Walter Fawkes of Farnley Hall,......

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