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Vol. 3 No. 11 · 18 June 1981
Barbara Everett
Henry James Letters. Vol. III: 1883-1895 edited by Leon Edel. Macmillan, 579 pp., £17.50, March 1981, 0 333 18046 1 Culture and Conduct in the Novels of Henry James by Alwyn Berland. Cambridge, 231 pp., £17.50, April 1981, 0 521 23343 7 Literary Reviews and Essays, A London Life, The Reverberator, Italian Hours, The Sacred Fount, Watch and Ward by Henry James. Columbus, 409 pp., £2.60, February 1981, 0 394 17098 9
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. Faber, 303 pp., £9.50, May 1981, 0 571 11636 1
James Paradis
Sir Joseph Banks by Charles Lyte. David and Charles, 248 pp., £10.50, October 1980, 0 7153 7884 8 The Heyday of Natural History: 1820-1870 by Lynn Barber. Cape, 320 pp., £9.50, October 1980, 9780224014489 A Vision of Eden by Marianne North. Webb and Bower, 240 pp., £8.95, October 1980, 0 906671 18 3
John Maynard Smith
Did Darwin get it right?
John Ziman
Scientists in Whitehall by Philip Gummett. Manchester, 245 pp., £14.50, July 1980, 0 7190 0791 7 Development of Science Publishing in Europe edited by A.J. Meadows. Elsevier, 269 pp., $48.75, October 1980, 0 444 41915 2
Geoffrey Hawthorn
Human Groups and Social Categories: Studies in Social Psychology by Henri Tajfel. Cambridge, 369 pp., £25, April 1981, 0 521 22839 5
Robin Briggs
Unclean Spirits: Possession and Exorcism in France and England in the Late 16th and Early 17th Centuries by D.P. Walker. Scolar, 116 pp., £9.95, March 1981, 9780859676205 The Witches’ Advocate by Gustav Henningsen. Nevada, 607 pp., $24, November 1980, 0 87417 056 7
I.M. Lewis
Deadly Words: Witchcraft in the Bocage by Jeanne Favret-Saada, translated by C. Cullen. Cambridge, 271 pp., £17.50, December 1980, 0 521 22317 2
Andrew Strathern
Knowledge and Passion: Ilongot Notions of Self and Social Life by Michelle Rosaldo. Cambridge, 286 pp., £17.50, April 1980, 0 521 22582 5
Russell Davies
Short Lives by Katinka Matson. Picador, 366 pp., £2.50, February 1981, 9780330262194
D.J. Enright
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston. Picador, 186 pp., £1.50, March 1981, 0 330 26400 1 China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston. Picador, 301 pp., £1.50, March 1981, 0 330 26367 6
Basil Lam
Bach and the Dance of God by Wilfrid Mellers. Faber, 324 pp., £15, November 1980, 0 571 11562 4
Rosalind Mitchison
Clans and Chiefs by Ian Grimble. Blond and Briggs, 267 pp., £10.95, December 1980, 0 85634 111 8
Chris Baur
Scotland the Bashful
Michael Ignatieff
Trial by Medicine: Insanity and Responsibility in Victorian Trials by Roger Smith. Edinburgh, 288 pp., £15, March 1981, 9780852244074
Michael Foley
Poem: ‘The In-Between Song’
Eric Korn
Chambers Universal Learners’ Dictionary Chambers, 908 pp., £5.95, July 1980, 0 550 10632 4 Le Mot Juste Kogan Page/Papermac, 176 pp., £5.95, July 1980, 0 85038 294 7
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