A splendid, highly literate personal account by the fortunate recipient of a miracle, a distinguished historian who slowly lost his eyesight and suddenly got it back.

Unfortunately, after a splendid account of Schwarzenegger's election campaign, Leamer offers a sketchy examination of his governorship.

Spurling's enthusiastically detailed biography is a complete expression of the life of Matisse, and necessarily a splendid account of his art, though not a complete one.

As Ashley More says in his splendid account of Broadhalfpenny Down's long and chequered history, it is not where cricket started.

The large orchestra under David Gilbert's direction gave a splendid account of the score, with its faux-naive chinoiserie and economically gauged dramatic strokes.

Another French player (and conductor) of note, Christophe Rousset, offers splendid accounts of the English Suites on two CD's from Ambroisie.

A New York Times columnist's splendid account of a libel suit against The Times that resulted in one of the most significant of all press-freedom cases.

There is a splendid account of the struggle to bring literacy to the masses by one of the central figures of the time, now forgotten, Thomas Greenwood.

A splendid account.

A splendid new account of Rossini's dramatic, art-defining work.