Vol. 3 No. 24 · 17 December 1981

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Vol. 3 No. 24 · 17 December 1981

W.G. Runciman

The Forward March of Labour Halted? by Eric Hobsbawm, Ken Gill and Tony Benn

Letters

Claude Rawson, Gillian Rose, John Thompson, Geoffrey Hawthorn, Henry Hardy

John Bayley

Auto da Fé by Elias Canetti, translated by C.V. Wedgwood
The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
The Human Province by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti, translated by Carol Stewart
Kafka’s Other Trial: The Letters to Felice by Elias Canetti, translated by Christopher Middleton
The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit by Elias Canetti, translated by J.A. Underwood
The Conscience of Words by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel

Alan Sheridan

Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Catherine Leach
The Issa Valley by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Louis Iribarne

James Malpas

Poem: ‘Poland, the Philosopher and the Players’

Patrick Wall

Mind in Science by Richard Gregory

David Pears

The Will: A Dual Aspect Theory by Brian O’Shaughnessy

Nicholas Humphrey

The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul edited by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett

Clive James

Poem: ‘An Address to the Nation’

Edmund Leach

The Architecture of Experience: A Discussion of the Role of Language and Literature in the Construction of the World by G.D. Martin

Thomas McKeown

Western Diseases: Their Emergence and Prevention edited by H.C. Trowell and D.P. Burkitt
The Diseases of Civilisation by Brain Inglis

Gavin Ewart

Poem: ‘A Victorian Cemetery’

Keith Middlemas

Fifty Years of Political and Economic Planning: Looking Forward, 1931-1981 edited by John Pinder

Herschel Post

The Cost of Good Intentions: New York City and the Liberal Experiment by Charles Morris

Charles Raw

The Money Lenders by Anthony Sampson

Michael Shepherd

Becoming Psychiatrists by Donald Light

Mary-Kay Wilmers

Love, Sex, Marriage and Divorce by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

Malise Ruthven

The House of Saud by David Holden and Richard Johns
The Kingdom by Robert Lacey

J.I.M. Stewart

Studies in Tennyson edited by Hallam Tennyson

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