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Vol. 2 No. 20 · 16 October 1980
D.J. Enright
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess. Hutchinson, 650 pp., £6.95, October 1980, 0 09 143910 8
Letters
John Henry Jones, Hermia Oliver, R.J. Dingley, Rosalie Mander, Humphrey Burton, David Kew, Roland Morgan
Marilyn Butler
Three Honest Men: Edmund Wilson, F.R. Leavis, Lionel Trilling edited by Philip French. Carcanet, 120 pp., £6.95, July 1980, 0 85635 299 3 F.R. Leavis by William Walsh. Chatto, 189 pp., £8.95, September 1980, 0 7011 2503 9
Peter Laslett
Characteristics of the Western European Family
Philippe Ariès
Bastardy and its Comparative History edited by Peter Laslett, Karla Oosterveen and Richard Smith. Arnold, 431 pp., £24, May 1980, 0 7131 6229 5
Douglas Dunn
Poem: ‘Saturday’
Karl Miller
Sydney Smith by Alan Bell. Oxford, 250 pp., £9.95, October 1980, 0 19 812050 8 Burke and Hare by Owen Dudley Edwards. Polygon, 300 pp., £7.95, August 1980, 0 904919 27 7
William Thomas
Holland House by Leslie Mitchell. Duckworth, 320 pp., £18, May 1980, 9780715611166 Genius in the Drawing-Room edited by Peter Quennell. Weidenfeld, 188 pp., £8.50, May 1980, 9780297777700
Rosalind Mitchison
The Life of David Hume by Ernest Campbell Mossner. Oxford, 736 pp., £20, March 1980, 0 19 824381 2 ‘The People Above’: Politics and Adminsitration in Mid-18th-Century Scotland by Alexander Murdoch. John Donald, 199 pp., £12, March 1980, 0 85976 053 7 The Laird of Abbotsford by A.N. Wilson. Oxford, 197 pp., £8.95, June 1980, 0 19 211756 4 The Strange Death of Scottish History by Marinell Ash. Ramsay Head Press, 166 pp., £6.50, March 1980, 0 902859 57 9
Alasdair MacIntyre
An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy by John Stuart Mill, edited by J.M. Robson. Routledge, 625 pp., £15.95, February 1980, 0 7100 0178 9
Michael Mason
City of Spades Mr Love and Mr Justice Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes. Allison and Busby, 254 pp., £6.50, April 1980, 0 85031 331 7
Ian Hamilton
Walk Don’t Walk The Camp From Scenes Like These by Gordon Williams. Allison and Busby, 264 pp., £6.50, April 1980, 0 85031 309 0
John Sutherland
The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett. Hamish Hamilton, 311 pp., £5.95, October 1980, 0 241 10492 0 Joshua Then and Now by Mordecai Richler. Macmillan, 435 pp., £6.95, September 1980, 0 333 30025 4 Loosely Engaged by Christopher Matthew. Hutchinson, 150 pp., £4.95, September 1980, 0 09 142830 0 Imago Bird by Nicholas Mosley. Secker, 185 pp., £5.95, September 1980, 9780436288463 A Quest of Love by Jacquetta Hawkes. Chatto, 220 pp., £6.50, October 1980, 0 7011 2536 5
Michael Neve
My Guru and his Disciple by Christopher Isherwood. Eyre Methuen, 338 pp., £8.50, July 1980, 0 413 46930 1
Richard Holmes
The Unacknowledged Legislator: Shelley and Politics by P.M.S. Dawson. Oxford, 312 pp., £16.50, June 1980, 0 19 812095 8 Shelley and his World by Claire Tomalin. Thames and Hudson, 128 pp., £5.95, July 1980, 9780500130681
Angus Calder
Collar the lot! How Britain Interned and Expelled its Wartime Refugees by Peter Gillman and Leni Gillman. Quartet, 334 pp., £8.95, May 1980, 0 7043 2244 7 A Bespattered Page? The Internment of ‘His Majesty’s Most Loyal Enemy Aliens’ by Ronald Stent. Deutsch, 282 pp., £7.95, July 1980, 0 233 97246 3
Frances Donaldson
Dear Old Blighty by E.S. Turner. Joseph, 288 pp., £7.95, February 1980, 0 7181 1879 0
Patricia Beer
The Duchess of Windsor by Diana Mosley. Sidgwick, 219 pp., £8.95, June 1980, 9780283986284
Antonia Fraser
Great Harry by Carolly Erickson. Dent, 428 pp., £8.50, July 1980, 0 460 04366 8
Christopher Holdsworth
The Norman Conquest of the North by William Kapelle. Croom Helm, 329 pp., £14.95, March 1980, 0 7099 0040 6 Consul of God by Jeffrey Richards. Routledge, 309 pp., £9.75, March 1980, 0 7100 0346 3 Martin of Tours by Christopher Donaldson. Routledge, 171 pp., £8.95, March 1980, 0 7100 0422 2 Mistra by Steven Runciman. Thames and Hudson, 160 pp., £9.50, March 1980, 0 500 25071 5
W.R. Mead
The English Heartland by Robert Beckinsale and Monica Beckinsale. Duckworth, 434 pp., £18, June 1980, 0 7156 1389 8 The English Village by Richard Muir. Thames and Hudson, 208 pp., £8.50, May 1980, 0 500 24106 6
Denis Arnold
George Grove by Percy Young. Macmillan, 344 pp., £12.50, April 1980, 0 333 19602 3
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