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Vol. 4 No. 1 · 21 January 1982
Ian Gilmour
Monetarism and History
Letters
Gabriel Josipovici, Graham Hough, Frederic Raphael, Noël Annan, John Thompson, A.J. Ayer, Ernst Wangermann, Chris Agee, Jonathan Wordsworth, Judith Luna
Roy Foster
Garret’s Crusade
Sheldon Rothblatt
A Liberal Descent: Victorian Historians and the English Past by J.W. Burrow. Cambridge, 308 pp., £19.50, October 1981, 0 521 24079 4
A.J. Ayer
Collected Philosophical Papers. Vol. I: From Parmenides to Wittgenstein by G.E.M. Anscombe. Blackwell, 141 pp., £10, September 1981, 0 631 12922 7 Collected Philosophical Papers. Vol. II: Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind by G.E.M. Anscombe. Blackwell, 239 pp., £15, September 1981, 0 631 12932 4 Collected Philosophical Papers. Vol. III: Ethics, Religion and Politics by G.E.M. Anscombe. Blackwell, 160 pp., £12, September 1981, 0 631 12942 1
F.R. Leavis
‘Gwendolen Harleth’
Gerald Graff
Structuralism or Criticism? by Geoffrey Strickland. Cambridge, 209 pp., £17.50, April 1981, 0 521 23184 1
Christopher Ricks
The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan. Cape, 134 pp., £5.95, October 1981, 0 224 01931 7
John Sutherland
Brave Old World by Philippe Curval, translated by Steve Cox. Allison and Busby, 262 pp., £6.95, November 1981, 0 85031 407 0 The Insider by Christopher Evans. Faber, 215 pp., £6.95, November 1981, 0 571 11774 0 Genetha by Roy Heath. Allison and Busby, 185 pp., £6.95, November 1981, 0 85031 410 0 From the Heat of the Day by Roy Heath. Allison and Busby, 159 pp., £6.50, October 1979, 0 85031 325 2 One Generation by Roy Heath. Allison and Busby, 202 pp., £2.50, March 1981, 9780850312546 Sardines by Nuruddin Farah. Allison and Busby, 250 pp., £7.95, November 1981, 0 85031 408 9
Hugh Lloyd-Jones
The Greeks and their Heritages by Arnold Toynbee. Oxford, 334 pp., £12.50, October 1981, 0 19 215256 4
Norman Hampson
The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store 1869-1920 by Michael Miller. Allen and Unwin, 266 pp., £12.50, September 1981, 0 04 330316 1 Ladies of the Leisure Class: The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the 19th Century by Bonnie Smith. Princeton, 303 pp., £15, November 1981, 0 691 05330 8 Marianne into Battle: Republican Imagery and Symbolism in France 1789-1880 by Maurice Agulhon, translated by Janet Lloyd. Cambridge, 235 pp., £18.50, June 1981, 0 521 28224 1
Blair Worden
The Outbreak of the English Civil War by Anthony Fletcher. Arnold, 446 pp., £24, October 1981, 0 7131 6320 8 The Royalist War Effort by Ronald Hutton. Longman, £12, October 1981, 0 582 50301 9
James McConica
Buchanan by I.D. McFarlane. Duckworth, 575 pp., £45, June 1981, 0 7156 0971 8
Rosalind Mitchison
Enemies of God: The Witch-Hunt in Scotland by Christina Larner. Chatto, 244 pp., £12.95, September 1981, 0 7011 2424 5 The Enlightenment in National Context edited by Roy Porter and Mikulas Teich. Cambridge, 276 pp., £19.50, September 1981, 0 521 23757 2
Alasdair Maclean
Poem: ‘A Marxist visits Lewis’
Norman MacCaig
Neil M. Gunn: A Highland Life by F.R. Hart and J.B. Pick. Murray, 314 pp., £15, November 1982, 0 7195 3856 4
Paul Delany
War Diary 1913-1917: Chronicle of Youth by Vera Brittain, edited by Alan Bishop. Gollancz, 382 pp., £8.50, September 1981, 0 575 02888 2 The English Poets of the First World War by John Lehmann. Thames and Hudson, 144 pp., £6.95, August 1981, 0 500 01256 3 Voices from the Great War by Peter Vansittart. Cape, 303 pp., £7.95, November 1981, 0 224 01915 5 The Little Field-Marshal: Sir John French by Richard Holmes. Cape, 427 pp., £12.50, November 1981, 0 224 01575 3
Robert Wohl
Memoirs of War 1914-15 by Marc Bloch, translated by Carole Fink. Cornell, 177 pp., £9, July 1980, 9780801412202
Peter Ackroyd
The Mad Bad Line by Brian Roberts. Hamish Hamilton, 319 pp., £15, July 1981, 0 241 10637 0
David Cannadine
Lutyens: The Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens Hayward Gallery, 200 pp., £15, November 1981, 0 7287 0304 1 Edwin Lutyens: Architect Laureate by Roderick Gradidge. Allen and Unwin, 167 pp., £13.95, November 1981, 0 04 720023 5 Indian Summer: Lutyens, Baker and Imperial Delhi by Robert Grant Irving. Yale, 406 pp., £20, November 1981, 0 300 02422 3 Lutyens: Country Houses by Daniel O’Neill. Lund Humphries, 167 pp., £8.95, May 1980, 0 85331 428 4 Lutyens and the Sea Captain by Margaret Richardson. Scolar, 40 pp., £5.95, November 1981, 0 85967 646 3 Houses and Gardens by E.L. Lutyens by Lawrence Weaver. Antique Collectors’ Club, 344 pp., £19.50, January 1982, 0 902028 98 7
Colin Macleod
The Experience of Thucydides by Dennis Proctor. Aris and Phillips, 264 pp., £15, May 1980, 0 85668 153 9
Russell Davies
Elvis by Albert Goldman. Allen Lane, 598 pp., £9.95, December 1981, 0 7139 1474 2
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