Edited by Mary E. and Richard H. Bradford. Roberts Rinehart, $24.95 326p) ISBN 1-879373-66-1 In 1893, American prospector Frederick Russell Burnham involved his family in a three-year effort searching for new riches in the Southern African goldfields. His letters, as well as...

For her first solo show in New York, Linda Burnham, an L.A. artist, served up frothy paintings on stretched '50s tablecloths which represent family values and courtship rituals gone berserk. Enlarging dingbats from graphic design catalogues of the same era and painting the...