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Painting The Self-image

Isabel Quigly Autobiography is a rash, revealing business yet modest-looking people go in for it every week. It can mean falling into a hole or climbing up a mountain — a snare......

Berlioz Seen Plain

Richard Luckett Berlioz, Romantic and Classic Ernest Newman, selected and edited by Peter Heyworth (Gollancz £3) The Lives of the Great Composers Harold C. Schonberg......