Cover: Homer Sykes

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Andrew Boyle
• Peter Clarke
• Rosemary Dinnage
• David Drew
• Michael Dummett
• D.J. Enright
• Paul Fussell
• Lyndall Gordon
• Seamus Heaney
• Tim Hilton
• Michael Hofmann
• Graham Hough
• Dan Jacobson
• Karl Miller
• Caroline Moorehead
• Claude Rawson
• Mary Renault
• Simon Schama
• J.I.M. Stewart

Contents

• Peter Clarke

  • The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy 1815-1848 by Maxine Berg
  • Masters, Unions and Men by Richard Price
  • Work, Society and Politics by Patrick Joyce

• Letters
  Dennis Proctor, William Empson, Vilis Zarins, Ned O’Gorman

• Andrew Boyle

  • The Frontiers of Secrecy by David Leigh

• Mary Renault

  • The Cult of the Immortal by Ange-Pierre Leca

• Rosemary Dinnage

  • Prostitutes: Our Life edited by Claude Jaget, translated by Anna Furse, Suize Fleming and Ruth Hall

• J.I.M. Stewart

  • C.S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table and Other Reminiscences edited by James Como

• Karl Miller

  • The Oxford Chekov. Vol. IV: Stories 1888-1889 edited by Ronald Hingley

• Seamus Heaney
  Poem: ‘Changes’

• D.J. Enright

  • Flaubert and an English Governess by Hermia Oliver
  • The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830-1857 edited and translated by Francis Steegmuller

• Graham Hough

  • Nuns and Soldiers by Iris Murdoch
  • Collin by Stefan Heym
  • An Inch of Fortune by Simon Raven
  • Virgin Kisses by Gloria Nagy

• Michael Dummett

  • Philosophical and Mathematical Correspondence by Gottlob Frege, translated by Hans Kaal, edited by Brian McGuinness
  • Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege edited by Peter Geach and Max Black
  • Frege’s Theory of Judgement by David Bell
  • Gottlob Frege by Hans Sluga

• Claude Rawson

  • Boileau and the Nature of Neo-Classicism by Gordon Pocock
  • ‘The Rape of the Lock’ and its Illustrations 1714-1896 by Robert Halsband

• David Drew

  • The days grow short by Ronald Sanders
  • Kurt Weill in Europe by Kim Kowalke

• Paul Fussell

  • The Private Diaries of Sir H. Rider Haggard, 1914-1925 edited by D.S. Higgins

• Lyndall Gordon

  • Olive Schreiner: A Biography by Ruth First and Ann Scott

• Caroline Moorehead

  • Fantastic Invasion by Patrick Marnham
  • Images of Africa by Naomi Mitchison

• Dan Jacobson
  Lawrence Festival

• Michael Hofmann on the steady state of Patricia Beer

  • Selected Poems by Patricia Beer
  • The Venetian Vespers by Anthony Hecht
  • Nostalgia for the Present by Andrei Voznesensky
  • Reflections on the Nile by Ronald Bottrall
  • Summer Palaces by Peter Scupham

• Simon Schama

  • Faith, Reason and the Plague by Carlo Cipolla

• Tim Hilton

  • William Mulready by Kathryn Heleniak