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Vol. 5 No. 24 · 22 December 1983
J.I.M. Stewart
‘Oh Beloved Kids’: Rudyard Kipling’s Letters to his Children edited by Elliot Gilbert. Weidenfeld, 225 pp., £10.95, October 1983, 0 297 78296 7
Letters
D.G. Wright, Park Honan, Vivian Elliot, Julia Wellard
Roy Porter
Montaigne: Essays in Reading edited by Gérard Defaux. Yale, 308 pp., £8.95, April 1983, 0 300 02977 2 Montaigne and Melancholy: The Wisdom of the ‘Essays’ by M.A. Screech. Duckworth, 194 pp., £19.50, August 1983, 0 7156 1698 6
Jon Elster
Mémoires by Raymond Aron. Julliard, 778 pp., frs 120, September 1983, 9782260003328 Clausewitz: Philosopher of War by Raymond Aron, translated by Norman Stone and Christine Booker. Routledge, 418 pp., £15.95, October 1983, 0 7100 9009 9 Clausewitz by Michael Howard. Oxford, 79 pp., £7.95, March 1983, 0 19 287608 2
David Fraser
Monty. Vol. II: Master of the Battlefield 1942-1944 by Nigel Hamilton. Hamish Hamilton, 863 pp., £12.95, October 1983, 0 241 11104 8 Decision in Normandy: The Unwritten Story of Montgomery and the Allied Campaign by Carlo D’Este. Collins, 555 pp., £12.95, October 1983, 0 00 217056 6
Brian Bond
Fire-Power: British Army Weapons and Theories of War by Shelford Bidwell and Dominick Graham. Allen and Unwin, 327 pp., £15, August 1982, 9780049421769 The Crucible of War: Year of Alamein 1942 by Barrie Pitt. Cape, 478 pp., £12.95, October 1982, 0 224 01827 2
Anne Sofer
The Battle for Bermondsey by Peter Tatchell. Heretic Books, 170 pp., £7.95, October 1983, 0 946097 11 9
Martin Lightfoot
In Defence of ILEA
Betty Kemp
The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke. Vol. II: Party, Parliament and the American Crisis, 1766-1774 edited by Paul Langford. Oxford, 508 pp., £40, April 1981, 0 19 822416 8 The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke. Vol. V: India: Madras and Bengal, 1774-1785 edited by P.J. Marshall. Oxford, 667 pp., £55, July 1983, 0 19 822417 6 The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Constitutional Code, Vol. I edited by F. Rosen and J.H. Burns. Oxford, 612 pp., £48, April 1983, 9780198226086 The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Deontology, together with a Table of the Springs of Action and Article on Utilitarianism edited by Amnon Goldworth. Oxford, 394 pp., £38, July 1983, 0 19 822609 8 The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Chrestomathia edited by M.J. Smith and W.H. Burston. Oxford, 451 pp., £40, November 1983, 0 19 822610 1 Bentham and Bureaucracy by L.J. Hume. Cambridge, 320 pp., £22.50, September 1981, 0 521 23542 1 Jeremy Bentham and Representative Democracy: A Study of the Constitutional Code by Frederick Rosen. Oxford, 255 pp., £19.50, May 1983, 9780198226567 Bentham by Ross Harrison. Routledge, 286 pp., £14.95, September 1983, 0 7100 9526 0
M.I. Finley
Death and Renewal. Sociological Studies in Roman History: Vol. II by Keith Hopkins. Cambridge, 276 pp., £19.50, May 1983, 0 521 24991 0
Pat Rogers
The Other Side of the Fire by Alice Thomas Ellis. Duckworth, 156 pp., £7.95, November 1983, 0 7156 1809 1 London Tales edited by Julian Evans. Hamish Hamilton, 309 pp., £8.95, October 1983, 0 241 11123 4 Londoners by Maureen Duffy. Methuen, 240 pp., £7.95, October 1983, 0 413 49350 4 Good Friends, Just by Anne Leaton. Chatto, 152 pp., £7.95, September 1983, 0 7011 2710 4
Anita Brookner
Fathers: Reflections by Daughters edited by Ursula Owen. Virago, 224 pp., £5.50, November 1983, 9780860683940
Michael Ignatieff
The Shoemaker: Anatomy of a Psychotic by Flora Rheta Schreiber. Allen Lane, 432 pp., £9.95, November 1983, 0 7139 1636 2
Denis Arnold
A History of English Opera by Eric Walter White. Faber, 472 pp., £30, July 1983, 0 571 10788 5
Christopher Driver
The String Quartet: A History by Paul Griffiths. Thames and Hudson, 240 pp., £12, October 1983, 9780500013113 Gyorgy Ligeti by Paul Griffiths. Robson, 128 pp., £8.95, October 1983, 0 86051 240 1
Nicholas Spice
Otto Klemperer: His Life and Times. Vol.I: 1885-1933 by Peter Heyworth. Cambridge, 492 pp., £15, October 1983, 0 521 24293 2 Score and Podium: A Complete Guide to Conducting by Frederik Prausnitz. Norton, 530 pp., £18.50, November 1983, 0 393 95154 5 The New Oxford Companion to Music edited by Denis Arnold. Oxford, 2017 pp., £37.50, October 1983, 0 19 311316 3
P.N. Johnson-Laird
Consciousness Regained: Chapters in the Development of Mind by Nicholas Humphrey. Oxford, 222 pp., £12.95, September 1983, 9780192177322
C.K. Stead
Poem: ‘Between’
A.J. Ayer
Diary: More of A.J. Ayer’s Life
Denis Donoghue
W.H.Auden: The Critical Heritage edited by John Haffenden. Routledge, 535 pp., £19.95, September 1983, 0 7100 9350 0 Auden: A Carnival of Intellect by Edward Callan. Oxford, 299 pp., £12.50, August 1983, 0 19 503168 7 Drawn from the Life: A Memoir by Robert Medley. Faber, 251 pp., £12.50, November 1983, 0 571 13043 7
W.H. Auden
Poem: ‘Letter to an Editor’
Richard Altick
Lewis and Lewis by John Juxon. Collins, 320 pp., £10.95, May 1983, 0 00 216476 0
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