Vol. 2 No. 17 · 4 September 1980
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Vol. 2 No. 17 · 4 September 1980
Edmund Leach
The Game of Tarot: from Ferrara to Salt Lake City by Michael Dummett. Duckworth, 600 pp., £45, August 1980, 0 7156 1014 7 Twelve Tarot Games by Michael Dummett. Duckworth, 242 pp., £5.95, August 1980, 0 7156 1488 6
Letters
G. Lowell Field, John Higley, Geoffrey Hawthorn, Gloria Cigman, Rudolf Peierls, Raymond Mason, Sheila Stern
Richard Rorty
Naming and Necessity by Saul Kripke. Blackwell, 172 pp., £7.95, May 1980, 0 631 10151 9
Clive James
Misia by Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale. Macmillan, 337 pp., £10, June 1980, 0 333 28165 9
Geoffrey Parker
Civilisation matérielle, économie et capitalisme, XVe – XVIIIe siécle by Fernand Braudel. Armand Colin, 544 pp.
J.B. Trapp
Studies in the Reformation: Luther to Hooker by W.D.J. Cargill Thompson. Athlone, 259 pp., £18, July 1980, 9780485111873
Howard Erskine-Hill
The Poetry of Abraham Cowley by David Trotter. Macmillan, 162 pp., £10, September 1979, 0 333 24167 3
Christopher Hill
A Portrait of Isaac Newton by Frank Manuel. Muller, 478 pp., £11.75, April 1980, 0 584 95357 7 Philosopher at War: The Quarrel between Newton and Leibniz by Rupert Hall. Cambridge, 338 pp., £15, July 1980, 0 521 22732 1
G.C. Gibbs
Queen Anne by Edward Gregg. Routledge, 483 pp., £17.50, April 1980, 0 7100 0400 1
Eric Stokes
Mrs Gandhi by Dom Moraes. Cape, 326 pp., £9.50, September 1980, 0 224 01601 6
J.Z. Young
The Evolution of Culture in Animals by John Tyler Bonner. Princeton, 216 pp., £8.10, May 1980, 0 691 08250 2
Ronald Syme
Controversy abating and credulity curbed?
Michael Hofmann
Seven Poems
John Naughton
Thinking the unthinkable
Robert Taubman
The Secret Servant by Gavin Lyall. Hodder, 224 pp., £5.50, June 1980, 0 340 25385 1 The Flowers of the Forest by Joseph Hone. Secker, 365 pp., £5.95, July 1980, 0 436 20087 2 A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie by Robert Barnard. Collins, 203 pp., £5.95, April 1980, 0 00 216190 7 Enter the Lion: A Posthumus Memoir of Mycroft Holmes by Michael Hodel and Sean Wright. Dent, 237 pp., £4.95, May 1980, 0 460 04483 4 Dorothy I. Sayers: Nine Literary Studies by Trevor Hall. Duckworth, 132 pp., £12.50, April 1980, 9780715614556 Milk Dime by Barry Fantoni. Hodder, 192 pp., £5.50, May 1980, 0 340 25350 9
Richard Mayne
The Films in My Life by François Truffaut, translated by Leonard Mayhew. Allen Lane, 358 pp., £6.95, May 1980, 0 7139 1322 3
David Hare
Moguls by Michael Pye. Temple Smith, 250 pp., £9.75, June 1980, 0 85117 187 7 The Movie Brats by Michael Pye and Linda Myles. Faber, 273 pp., £5.25, June 1979, 0 571 11383 4
John Bayley
The Collected Ewart 1933-1980 by Gavin Ewart. Hutchinson, 412 pp., £10, June 1980, 0 09 141000 2 Selected Poems and Prose by Michael Roberts, edited by Frederick Grubb. Carcanet, 205 pp., £7.95, June 1980, 0 85635 263 2
Virginia Llewellyn Smith
The History of a Town by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, translated by I.P. Foote. William Meeuws, 192 pp., £9, March 1980, 0 902672 33 9
David Lodge
Story: ‘My First Job’
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