19 SEPTEMBER 1987, page 43

Contriving The Natural

Norbert Lynton THE PRIVATE DEGAS by Richard Thomson Herbert Press, £12.95 D egas is counted an Impressionist and did exhibit with them in the 1870s and 1880s. Yet his priorities......

Arrival And Preparation

It seems to be very near This music that's been so elusive but so quick To offer a phrase and move into difficult silence, Hard for me I mean. I have let one phrase enter and......

The Embarrassment Of Riches

Peter Quennell AN INTERPRETATION OF DUTCH CULTURE IN THE GOLDEN AGE by Simon Schama Collins f19.95 I n his preface to this extremely substan- tial book, which, with its......