6 JANUARY 1967, page 20

Gombrich's Therapy

'IT is a frightening thought, yet I believe true,' writes Professor Gombrich, 'that anything we say or write about a painting may change it in some subtle way. It reorganises......

The Mcmahon Line: A Study In The Relations Alastair Lamb.

Two volumes. (Routledge Along the Imperial Frontiers Tun main range of the Himalayas, which divides the Indian subcontinent from the Central Asian plateau, forms one of the......

Reflections At The Forge

The blacksmith gruffed at me To look at his hammer-haft. When I took Its rise and hollow, shapely as a limb, Burnished down to the grain, a worked wood Married to the horny......