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A Classicist Not A Red Indian

Martin Butlin THE PAINTINGS OF BENJAMIN WEST by Helmut von Erffa and Allen Staley Yale University Press, £50 0 ne of the most common criticisms of avant-garde artists in the......

A Californian Novel In Verse

Christopher Hawtree THE GOLDEN GATE by Vikram Seth Faber, f9.95 M uch the most obvious way of giving an account of this novel would be to venture some verse of one's own. Of......