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. Verso, 182 pp., £8.50, November 1981, 0 86091 041 5
Letters
Claude Rawson, Gillian Rose, John Thompson, Geoffrey Hawthorn, Henry Hardy
John Bayley
Auto da Fé by Elias Canetti, translated by C.V. Wedgwood. Cape, 464 pp., £7.95, January 1982, 0 224 00568 5 The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Continuum, 268 pp., $12.95, June 1979, 0 8164 9103 8 The Human Province by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Continuum, 281 pp., $12.95, June 1978, 0 8164 9335 9 Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti, translated by Carol Stewart. Penguin, 575 pp., £2.95, October 1978, 0 14 003616 4 Kafka’s Other Trial: The Letters to Felice by Elias Canetti, translated by Christopher Middleton. Marion Boyars, 121 pp., £5.95, October 1976, 0 7145 1136 6 The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit by Elias Canetti, translated by J.A. Underwood. Marion Boyars, 103 pp., £5.50, January 1978, 0 7145 2579 0 The Conscience of Words by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Continuum, 246 pp., $12.95, May 1979, 0 8164 9334 0
Alan Sheridan
Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Catherine Leach. Sidgwick, 300 pp., £8.95, July 1981, 0 283 98782 0 The Issa Valley by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Louis Iribarne. Sidgwick, 288 pp., £6.95, July 1981, 0 283 98762 6
James Malpas
Poem: ‘Poland, the Philosopher and the Players’
Patrick Wall
Mind in Science by Richard Gregory. Weidenfeld, 641 pp., £18.50, September 1981, 0 297 77825 0
David Pears
The Will: A Dual Aspect Theory by Brian O’Shaughnessy. Cambridge, 250 pp., £25, November 1980, 0 521 22680 5
Nicholas Humphrey
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul edited by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett. Harvester, 448 pp., £9.95, November 1981, 0 7108 0352 4
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. Edinburgh, 201 pp., £12, February 1981, 0 333 23560 6
Thomas McKeown
Western Diseases: Their Emergence and Prevention edited by H.C. Trowell and D.P. Burkitt. Arnold, 456 pp., £28.50, March 1981, 0 7131 4373 8 The Diseases of Civilisation by Brain Inglis. Hodder, 371 pp., £10.95, September 1981, 0 340 21717 0
Gavin Ewart
Poem: ‘A Victorian Cemetery’
Keith Middlemas
Fifty Years of Political and Economic Planning: Looking Forward, 1931-1981 edited by John Pinder. Heinemann, 228 pp., £9.50, June 1981, 0 435 83690 0
Herschel Post
The Cost of Good Intentions: New York City and the Liberal Experiment by Charles Morris. Norton, 256 pp., £8.95, March 1981, 0 393 01339 1
Charles Raw
The Money Lenders by Anthony Sampson. Hodder, 336 pp., £7.95, September 1981, 0 340 25719 9
Michael Shepherd
Becoming Psychiatrists by Donald Light. Norton, 429 pp., £10.95, June 1981, 0 393 01168 2
Mary-Kay Wilmers
Love, Sex, Marriage and Divorce by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy. Cape, 384 pp., £8.50, November 1981, 0 224 01602 4
Malise Ruthven
The House of Saud by David Holden and Richard Johns. Sidgwick, 569 pp., £9.95, October 1981, 0 283 98436 8 The Kingdom by Robert Lacey. Hutchinson, 631 pp., £9.95, October 1981, 0 09 145790 4
J.I.M. Stewart
Studies in Tennyson edited by Hallam Tennyson. Macmillan, 229 pp., £15, October 1981, 0 333 27884 4
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