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Vol. 2 No. 18 · 18 September 1980
Peter Clarke
The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy 1815-1848 by Maxine Berg. Cambridge, 379 pp., £16, April 1980, 0 521 22782 8 Masters, Unions and Men by Richard Price. Cambridge, 355 pp., £18.50, June 1980, 0 521 22882 4 Work, Society and Politics by Patrick Joyce. Harvester, 356 pp., £24, July 1980, 0 85527 680 0
Letters
Dennis Proctor, William Empson, Vilis Zarins, Ned O’Gorman
Andrew Boyle
The Frontiers of Secrecy by David Leigh. Junction, 291 pp., £9.95, August 1980, 0 86245 002 0
Mary Renault
The Cult of the Immortal by Ange-Pierre Leca. Souvenir, 304 pp., £8.95, July 1980, 0 285 62393 1
Rosemary Dinnage
Prostitutes: Our Life edited by Claude Jaget, translated by Anna Furse, Suize Fleming and Ruth Hall. Falling Wall Press, 221 pp., £8.50, May 1980, 0 905046 12 9
J.I.M. Stewart
C.S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table and Other Reminiscences edited by James Como. Collins, 299 pp., £6.95, August 1980, 9780002162753
Karl Miller
The Oxford Chekov. Vol. IV: Stories 1888-1889 edited by Ronald Hingley. Oxford, 287 pp., £14, July 1980, 0 19 211389 5
Seamus Heaney
Poem: ‘Changes’
D.J. Enright
Flaubert and an English Governess by Hermia Oliver. Oxford, 212 pp., £9.50, June 1980, 0 19 815764 9 The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830-1857 edited and translated by Francis Steegmuller. Harvard, 270 pp., £7.50, March 1980, 0 674 52636 8
Graham Hough
Nuns and Soldiers by Iris Murdoch. Chatto, 505 pp., £6.50, September 1980, 0 7011 2519 5 Collin by Stefan Heym. Hodder, 315 pp., £7.95, August 1980, 0 340 25721 0 An Inch of Fortune by Simon Raven. Blond and Briggs, 176 pp., £5.95, June 1980, 0 85634 108 8 Virgin Kisses by Gloria Nagy. Penguin, 221 pp., £1.25, July 1980, 0 14 005506 1
Michael Dummett
Philosophical and Mathematical Correspondence by Gottlob Frege, translated by Hans Kaal, edited by Brian McGuinness. Blackwell, 214 pp., £15, March 1980, 9780631196204 Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege edited by Peter Geach and Max Black. Blackwell, 228 pp., £12, July 1980, 0 631 12901 4 Frege’s Theory of Judgement by David Bell. Oxford, 163 pp., £8.50, July 1979, 0 19 827423 8 Gottlob Frege by Hans Sluga. Routledge, 203 pp., £12.95, July 1980, 0 7100 0474 5
Claude Rawson
Boileau and the Nature of Neo-Classicism by George Pocock. Cambridge, 215 pp., £12.50, June 1980, 0 521 22772 0 ‘The Rape of the Lock’ and its Illustrations 1714-1896 by Robert Halsband. Oxford, 160 pp., £11.50, July 1980, 0 19 812098 2
David Drew
The days grow short by Ronald Sanders. Weidenfeld, 469 pp., £14.95, July 1980, 0 297 77783 1 Kurt Weill in Europe by Kim Kowalke. UMI Research Press/Bowker, 589 pp., £25.50, March 1980, 0 8357 1076 9
Paul Fussell
The Private Diaries of Sir H. Rider Haggard, 1914-1925 edited by D.S. Higgins. Cassell, 299 pp., £14.95, May 1980, 0 304 30611 8
Lyndall Gordon
Olive Schreiner: A Biography by Ruth First and Ann Scott. Deutsch, 383 pp., £9.95, May 1980, 0 233 97152 1
Caroline Moorehead
Fantastic Invasion by Patrick Marnham. Cape, 271 pp., £6.50, May 1980, 0 224 01829 9 Images of Africa by Naomi Mitchison. Canongate, 139 pp., £5.95, April 1980, 0 903937 70 0
Dan Jacobson
Lawrence Festival
Michael Hofmann
Selected Poems by Patricia Beer. Hutchinson, 152 pp., £5.95, April 1980, 0 09 138450 8 The Venetian Vespers by Anthony Hecht. Oxford, 91 pp., £3.95, March 1980, 0 19 211933 8 Nostalgia for the Present by Andrei Voznesensky. Oxford, 150 pp., £3.50, April 1980, 0 19 211900 1 Reflections on the Nile by Ronald Bottrall. London Magazine Editions, 56 pp., £3.50, May 1980, 0 904388 33 6 Summer Palaces by Peter Scupham. Oxford, 55 pp., £3, March 1980, 9780192119322
Simon Schama
Faith, Reason and the Plague by Carlo Cipolla. Harvester, 112 pp., £7.50, November 1980, 0 85527 506 5
Tim Hilton
William Mulready by Kathryn Heleniak. Yale, 287 pp., £25, April 1980, 0 300 02311 1
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