Vol. 2 No. 8 · 1 May 1980
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Vol. 2 No. 8 · 1 May 1980
Robert Blake
The Last Edwardian at No 10: An Impression of Harold Macmillan by George Hutchinson. Quartet, 151 pp., £6.50, February 1980, 0 7043 2232 3
Letters
Bernard Richards, René Weis, Rosalind Mitchison, Michael Mason
Robert Taubman
Faces in My Time by Anthony Powell. Heinemann, 230 pp., £8.50, March 1980, 0 434 59924 7
Brigid Brophy
Doctor Fischer of Geneva. Or The Bomb Party by Graham Greene. Bodley Head, 140 pp., £4.50, March 1980, 0 370 30316 4
Bernard Williams
Logic and Society by Jon Elster. Wiley, 244 pp., £12.65, March 1978, 0 471 99549 5 Ulysses and the Sirens by Jon Elster. Cambridge/Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 240 pp., £9.75, May 1979, 0 521 22388 1
William Vaughan
The Diary of Joseph Farington RA: Vols V and VI (1 August 1801-31 December 1804) edited by Kenneth Garlick. Yale (for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art), 447 pp., £15, October 1979, 0 300 02418 5
Simon Schama
Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur by Ernest Samuels. Harvard, 477 pp., £9.50, June 1979, 0 674 06775 4 Being Bernard Berenson by Meryle Secrest. Weidenfeld, 473 pp., £8.50, January 1980, 0 297 77564 2
Charles Tomlinson
Poem: ‘At the Edge’
Keith Kyle
Ethnic Power Mobilised: Can South Africa change? by Heribert Adam. Yale, 308 pp., £14.20, October 1979, 0 300 02377 4 Transkei’s Half Loaf: Race Separatism in South Africa by Newell Stultz. Yale, 183 pp., £10.10, October 1979, 0 300 02333 2 Year of Fire, Year of Ash The Soweto Revolt: Roots of a Revolution? by Baruch Hirson. Zed, 348 pp., £12.95, June 1979, 0 905762 28 2 The past is another country: Rhodesia 1890-1979 by Martin Meredith. Deutsch, 383 pp., £9.95, October 1979, 0 233 97121 1
Rosalind Mitchison
The Philosophic Radicals: Nine Studies in Theory and Practice, 1817-1841 by William Thomas. Oxford, 491 pp., £15, December 1979, 0 19 822490 7
Francis Bennion
Respectable Rebels edited by Roger King. Hodder, 200 pp., £10.95, October 1979, 0 340 23164 5 The Judge by Patrick Devlin. Oxford, 207 pp., £7.50, September 1979, 0 19 215949 6 Human Rights edited by F.E. Dowrick. Saxon House, 223 pp., £9.70, July 1979, 0 566 00281 7 In on the Act by Sir Harold Kent. Macmillan, 273 pp., £8.95, September 1979, 0 333 27120 3 Law, Justice and Social Policy by Rosalind Brooke. Croom Helm, 136 pp., £7.95, October 1979, 0 85664 636 9 Inequality, Crime and Public Policy by John Braithwaite. Routledge, 332 pp., £10.75, November 1979, 0 7100 0323 4
Susannah Clapp
A Country Calendar by Flora Thompson, edited by Margaret Lane. Oxford, 307 pp., £6.95, October 1979, 9780192117533
Gavin Ewart
Poem: ‘On the Surrey/Hampshire Border’
Patricia Beer
Poem: ‘The Conjurer’
C.K. Stead
Five American Poets by John Matthias, introduced by Michael Schmidt. Carcanet, 160 pp., £3.25, November 1979, 0 85635 259 4 The New Australian Poetry edited by John Tranter. Makar Press, 330 pp., £6.50, November 1979Carpenters of Light by Neil Powell. Carcanet, 154 pp., £6.95, November 1979, 0 85635 305 1 Mirabell: Books of Number by James Merrill. Oxford, 182 pp., £3.25, June 1979, 0 19 211892 7 The Book of the Body by Frank Bidart. Faber, 44 pp., £4.50, October 1979, 0 374 11549 4 Skull of Adam by Stanley Moss. Anvil, 67 pp., £2.50, May 1979, 0 85646 041 9 Poems 1928-1978 by Stanley Kunitz. Secker, 249 pp., £6.50, September 1979, 0 436 23932 9
Hans Keller
Michael Tippett: An Introductory Study by David Matthews. Faber, 112 pp., £5.95, December 1979, 0 571 10954 3 Tippett and his Operas by Eric Walter White. Barrie and Jenkins, 142 pp., £7.97, January 1980, 0 214 20573 8
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