CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• Douglas Dunn
• D.J. Enright
• Barbara Everett
• Graham Hough
• James Joll
• Frank Kermode
• David Marquand
• J.S. Morrill
• Craig Raine
• Claude Rawson
• Pat Rogers
• Humphery Spender
• C.K. Stead
• Robert Taubman
• E.S. Turner
• John Vincent
• Gordon Williams

Contents

• Robert Taubman

  • Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

• Letters
  Maurice Cowling, E.E. Duncan-Jones, Isabel Jacobs, Charles Harrison, David Trotter, Michael Holroyd, Michael Szkolny, Audrey Williamson, Lee Shrubb

• Craig Raine
  Poem: ‘The Widower’

• D.J. Enright

  • The Hill Station by J.G. Farrell

• John Vincent

  • Their trade is treachery by Chapman Pincher

• Humphery Spender
  Seventh Eighth Men Uncovered

• David Marquand

  • The Socialist Agenda edited by David Lipsey
  • The Future of Socialism by Anthony Crosland
  • Politics is for people by Shirley Williams

• James Joll

  • Retreat from Power: Studies in Britain’s Foreign Policy of the 20th Century edited by David Dilks

• J.S. Morrill

  • The Justice and the Mare’s Ale by Alan Macfarlane

• Frank Kermode

  • Interpretation: An Essay in the Philosophy of Literary Criticism by P.D. Juhl

• Pat Rogers

  • The Garrick Stage: Theatres and Audience in the 18 th Century by Allardyce Nicoll
  • The Kemble Era: John Philip Kemble, Sarah Siddons and the London Stage by Linda Kelly
  • Early English Stages 1300 to 1660: Vol. 3: Plays and their Makers to 1576 by Glynne Wickham

• Barbara Everett

  • A Night in the Gazebo by Alan Brownjohn
  • Victorian Voices by Anthony Thwaite
  • The Illusionists by John Fuller

• Douglas Dunn
  Poem: ‘Rereading Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Bliss and Other Stories’’

• C.K. Stead

  • I passed this way by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
  • Spinster by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
  • Teacher by Sylvia Ashton-Warner

• Gordon Williams

  • Ronnie Biggs: His Own Story by Michael Joseph
  • A Sense of Freedom by Jimmy Boyle

• Gabriele Annan

  • When memory comes by Saul Friedländer, translated by Helen Lane

• Claude Rawson considers the behaviour of reviewers and their response to Martin Amis’s novel ‘Other People’

• Graham Hough
  An Outline of Outlines

• E.S. Turner

  • The Macmillan Treasury of Relevant Quotations edited by Edward Murphy