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Master Pieces

Harold Acton Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny (Yale University Press pp. 376, £20) The centennial resurrection......

Lethal Lisps

Hugh Massingberd The Life and Times _of Edward I John Chancellor (Weidenfeld & Nicholson pp. 224, £6.95) The biographical series on the 'Kings and Queens of England' under the......

Shrinking Fast

Nicolas Walter Hans Eysenck H. B. Gibson (Peter Owen pp. 275, f11.95). Mindwatching Hans & Michael Eysenck (Michael Joseph pp. 224, L10.50). The biography of a psychologist......