No . 133 The Trusty Servant
George Saumarez Smith ( B , 86-91 ) is celebrated for the elegance of his work as one of Britain ’ s foremost classical architects . As a student at Edinburgh University , he belonged to the last year group to be taught the skill of measured drawing as part of the core syllabus and it would become a passion for him . Sketchbooks : Collected Measured Drawings and Architectural Sketches presents a selection of the drawings that he has made in the last twenty-five years in a series of sketchbooks each of which is named after one of the Roman emperors .
George ’ s drawings display a supreme mastery that goes beyond technique and assumes the status of art . They constitute a series of concentrated observations on buildings from different parts of the world which unlock the secrets of their design and give insight into the minds of their creators . Simply by applying pencil to paper , aided only by a tape measure and a ruler to measure the building in front of him , George pursues an adventure in the world of built form whose aesthetic beauty will both amaze and delight .
Afficionados of Winchester will appreciate the sketches of local architectural details and Wykehamists will appreciate the endpapers in the book : both panoramas of Florence , which were drawn in 1991 when George was one of the recipients of the Grahame Drew Travel Scholarship .
240 pages . Triglyph Books . ISBN : 978-1916355439
The Economics of The Stock Market by Andrew Smithers ( D , 51-55 ) was published by Oxford University Press on 10 th March .
It presents a radical new model for the economy which follows from using the data we have on long-term returns on shortterm debt , longdated bonds and equities . Consensus models , whether neoclassical or DSGE , ignore these data and assume that these different forms of financial capital fluctuate together . This assumption is shown to be invalid .
By using the data , the new stock market model shows that there are at least two different equilibria
which need to be preserved to avoid major recessions . By assuming that there is one such equilibrium current policy , which naturally follows from current consensus theory , leads to periodic crises .
224 pages . Oxford University Press . ISBN : 978-0192847096
Felix Warnock ( B , 65-68 ) has recently completed his memoir Perfection is Not the Word for It .
Orchestral life in Britain is thriving and anarchic , in turns chaotic , hilarious and brutal . Perfection Is Not the Word for It is a personal , and mostly affectionate , account of life amongst the extraordinary characters who lead their over-stressed lives in this unusual world , surrounded by music but driven by everyday anxieties , and always defying the best efforts of administrators , bureaucrats and conductors to tame the unruly beast which is a professional orchestra .
230 Pages . Austin Macauley Publishers . ISBN : 978-1398409392
Win Coll Booklets and Pamphlets
Tim Hands ’ s A Winchester A-Z , referred to in Valete , is only the latest in a line of interesting books and booklets produced by the College in recent years . Some can be purchased or downloaded free from the Treasury website : treasury . winchestercollege . org / new-design / pages / treasury / publications-online . Alternatively , you may wish to pick up a hard copy the next time you visit the College .
· Winchester College Treasury – a comprehesive and beautifully illustrated guide to the collections .
· 50 Treasures from Winchester College – essays on 50 highlights from the collections .
· The Duberly Collection of Chinese Art – a catalogue of the collection , mostly of porcelain , by Anthony du Boulay ( C , 43-46 ).
· Medieval Glass at Winchester College
· Formidable : an Eighteenth-Century Ship Model
· English Watercolours from the Adam Crick Bequest
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