Vol. 3 No. 11 · 18 June 1981

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Vol. 3 No. 11 · 18 June 1981

Barbara Everett

Henry James Letters. Vol. III: 1883-1895 edited by Leon Edel
Culture and Conduct in the Novels of Henry James by Alwyn Berland
Literary Reviews and Essays, A London Life, The Reverberator, Italian Hours, The Sacred Fount, Watch and Ward by Henry James

Letters

William Milne, Jeremy Cherfas, Dermot McEvoy, Hilary Clark, Lisa Tuttle, Colin Haycraft

Carol Rumens

Poem: ‘A Poem for Chessmen at a Congress’

Christopher Ricks

John Donne: Life, Mind and Art by John Carey

James Paradis

Sir Joseph Banks by Charles Lyte
The Heyday of Natural History: 1820-1870 by Lynn Barber
A Vision of Eden by Marianne North

John Maynard Smith

Did Darwin get it right?

John Ziman

Scientists in Whitehall by Philip Gummett
Development of Science Publishing in Europe edited by A.J. Meadows

Geoffrey Hawthorn

Human Groups and Social Categories: Studies in Social Psychology by Henri Tajfel

Robin Briggs

Unclean Spirits: Possession and Exorcism in France and England in the Late 16th and Early 17th Centuries by D.P. Walker
The Witches’ Advocate by Gustav Henningsen

I.M. Lewis

Deadly Words: Witchcraft in the Bocage by Jeanne Favret-Saada, translated by C. Cullen

Andrew Strathern

Knowledge and Passion: Ilongot Notions of Self and Social Life by Michelle Rosaldo

Russell Davies

Short Lives by Katinka Matson

D.J. Enright

The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston

Basil Lam

Bach and the Dance of God by Wilfrid Mellers

Rosalind Mitchison

Clans and Chiefs by Ian Grimble

Chris Baur

Scotland the Bashful

Michael Ignatieff

Trial by Medicine: Insanity and Responsibility in Victorian Trials by Roger Smith

Michael Foley

Poem: ‘The In-Between Song’

Eric Korn

Chambers Universal Learners’ Dictionary 
Le Mot Juste 

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