CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Geoffrey Best
• Angela Carter
• Peter Clarke
• Douglas Dunn
• William Empson
• A.C. Gimson
• Nicholas Humphrey
• Michael Irwin
• Gabriel Josipovici
• Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• Mary McCarthy
• John McDowell
• Alasdair MacIntyre
• Karl Miller
• C.H. Roberts
• Eric Stokes
• Polly Toynbee

Contents

• William Empson

  • The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age by Frances Yates

• Letters
  D.D. Raphael, E.M. Valk, Yorick Wilks, Thomas Blaikie, George Watson, Anthony Dickins, Robin Maconie, Hans Keller, J.D. MacShane, Brigid Brophy

• Douglas Dunn
  Poem: ‘The Gallery’

• C.H. Roberts

  • The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

• Nicholas Humphrey

  • The Spiritual Nature of Man by Alister Hardy

• Gabriel Josipovici

  • Chaucer’s Knight: Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary by Terry Jones
  • Chaucer, Langland and the Creative Imagination by David Aers
  • The Golden Age: Manuscript Painting at the Time of Jean, Duc de Berry by Marcel Thomas

• Hugh Lloyd-Jones

  • The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

• Alasdair MacIntyre

  • Perception and Identity: Essays presented to A.J. Ayer with his replies to them edited by G.E. MacDonald
  • Intention and Intentionality: Essays in Honour of G.E.M. Anscombe edited by Cora Diamond and Jenny Teichmann

• John McDowell

  • Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts by John Searle

• A.C. Gimson

  • The Sound Shape of Language by Roman Jakobson and Linda Waugh

• Karl Miller

  • W.H. Auden: The Life of a Poet by Charles Osborne

• Geoffrey Best

  • The Ethics of War by Barrie Paskins and Michael Dockrill

• Mary McCarthy
  Ideas and the Novel: Dostoevsky’s ‘The Possessed’

• Eric Stokes

  • Race, Sex and Class under the Raj: Imperial Attitudes and Policies and their Critics by Kenneth Ballhatchet
  • Queen Victoria’s Maharajah: Duleep Singh 1838-1898 by Michael Alexander and Sushila Anand

• Peter Clarke

  • The Optimists: Themes and Personalities in Victorian Liberalism by Ian Bradley

• Angela Carter

  • The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley
  • Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley

• Michael Irwin

  • The Missing Years by Walter Laqueur
  • Jack be nimble by Nigel Williams
  • Identity Papers by Anthony Cronin
  • Narrow Rooms by James Purdy
  • Six Moral Tales by Eric Rohmer, translated by Sabine d’Estrée

• Polly Toynbee

  • Mother and Son by Jeremy Seabrook