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STAINED GLASS. Photographs by Sonia Halliday and Laura Lushington. 207 pages. Crown. $39.95. The authors traveled throughout Europe selecting and photographing the world's finest examples of sacred and profane stained glass. The result is a comprehensive guide, from the llth century Old Testament windows in Augsburg Cathedral to the 20th century revival of the craft as seen in modern churches as well as the temples of commerce and art. The text and layout by Lawrence Lee, George Seddon and Francis Stephens provide a rich historical context; a final illustrated chapter explains the methods of stained-glass artisans...
Though this six-foot, bearded, spinsterish Englishman never married, he was fortunate in the young men on whom he sometimes girlishly innocent crushes. Frank Lushington became an important judge. Chichester Fortescue (Lear liked to write his name "40scue") became Lord Carlingford. Thomas George Baring became the Earl of Northbrook and Viceroy of India. Evelyn Baring became the Earl of Cromer, the "Maker of Modern Egypt." To these playful satraps of the expanding British Empire, Lear liked to write such pre-Joycean letters as this one to Evelyn Baring...
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