William Empson

The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age by Frances Yates. Routledge, 224 pp., £7.75, November 1979, 9780710003201

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. Weidenfeld, 182 pp., £7.95, March 1980, 0 297 77709 2

Nicholas Humphrey

The Spiritual Nature of Man by Alister Hardy. Oxford, 162 pp., £6.95, December 1979, 0 19 824618 8

Gabriel Josipovici

Chaucer’s Knight: Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary by Terry Jones. Weidenfeld, 319 pp., £8.95, January 1980, 0 297 77566 9
Chaucer, Langland and the Creative Imagination by David Aers. Routledge, 236 pp., £9.75, January 1980, 9780710003515
The Golden Age: Manuscript Painting at the Time of Jean, Duc de Berry by Marcel Thomas. Chatto, 120 pp., £12.50, January 1980, 0 7011 2471 7

Hugh Lloyd-Jones

The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton. Sidgwick, 522 pp., £6.95, December 1979, 0 283 98587 9

Alasdair MacIntyre

Perception and Identity: Essays presented to A.J. Ayer with his replies to them edited by G.E. MacDonald. Macmillan, 358 pp., £15, December 1979, 0 333 27182 3
Intention and Intentionality: Essays in Honour of G.E.M. Anscombe edited by Cora Diamond and Jenny Teichmann. Harvester, 205 pp., £16.95, December 1979, 0 85527 985 0

John McDowell

Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts by John Searle. Cambridge, 187 pp., £8.50, December 1979, 0 521 22901 4

A.C. Gimson

The Sound Shape of Language by Roman Jakobson and Linda Waugh. Harvester, 308 pp., £13.50, September 1979, 0 85527 926 5

Karl Miller

W.H. Auden: The Life of a Poet by Charles Osborne. Eyre Methuen, 336 pp., £7.95, March 1980, 0 413 39670 3

Geoffrey Best

The Ethics of War by Barrie Paskins and Michael Dockrill. Duckworth, 332 pp., £18, October 1979, 0 7156 1354 5

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. Weidenfeld, 199 pp., £9.50, January 1980, 0 297 77646 0
Queen Victoria’s Maharajah: Duleep Singh 1838-1898 by Michael Alexander and Sushila Anand. Weidenfeld, 326 pp., £9.95, February 1980, 0 297 77656 8

Peter Clarke

The Optimists: Themes and Personalities in Victorian Liberalism by Ian Bradley. Faber, 301 pp., £12.50, January 1980, 0 571 11495 4

Michael Irwin

The Missing Years by Walter Laqueur. Weidenfeld, 281 pp., £5.95, March 1980, 0 297 77707 6
Jack be nimble by Nigel Williams. Secker, 213 pp., £5.50, March 1980, 0 436 57155 2
Identity Papers by Anthony Cronin. Co-op Books, 194 pp., £4.50, February 1980, 0 905441 23 0
Narrow Rooms by James Purdy. Black Sheep Books, 185 pp., £5.95, March 1980, 0 906538 60 2
Six Moral Tales by Eric Rohmer, translated by Sabine d’Estrée. Lorrimer, 252 pp., £4.95, February 1980, 0 85647 075 9

Angela Carter

The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley. Virago, 192 pp., £2.50, March 1980, 0 86068 127 0
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley. Virago, 208 pp., £1.95, May 1979, 0 86068 108 4

Polly Toynbee

Mother and Son by Jeremy Seabrook. Gollancz, 189 pp., £6.95, October 1979, 9780575026889

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