Cover: Hans Holbein

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Patricia Beer
• Brigid Brophy
• David Cannadine
• G.R. Elton
• Ronald Fraser
• Christopher Hill
• Graham Hough
• Dan Jacobson
• Douglas Johnson
• Gabriel Josipovici
• V.G. Kiernan
• Claude Rawson
• C.K. Stead
• Jonathan Sumption
• A.J.P. Taylor
• Richard Tuck
• E.S. Turner
• Hugo Williams
• Raymond Williams
• Francis Wyndham

Contents

• G.R. Elton

  • The Lisle Letters edited by Muriel St Clare Byrne

• Letters
  Anthony Hallam, Jonathan Fryer

• V.G. Kiernan

  • Revolutionary Empire: The Rise of the English-Speaking Empires from the 15th Century to the 1780s by Angus Calder

• Hugo Williams
  Poem: ‘Sonny Jim’s House’

• A.J.P. Taylor

  • Democracy and Sectarianism: A Political and Social History of Liverpool 1868-1939 by P.J. Waller

• Douglas Johnson

  • The Popes and European Revolution by Owen Chadwick

• Christopher Hill

  • Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing, 1516-1700 by J.C. Davis
  • Science and Society in Restoration England by Michael Hunter

• Richard Tuck

  • Social Justice in the Liberal State by Bruce Ackerman
  • Justice and Liberty by David Raphael

• Graham Hough

  • A Start in Life by Anita Brookner
  • Rhine Journey by Ann Schlee
  • The Sure Salvation by John Hearne
  • Beloved Latitudes by David Pownall

• Francis Wyndham
  The Half Brother

• Dan Jacobson

  • The Oxford Book of Short Stories by V.S. Pritchett
  • The Short Story in English by Walter Allen

• Claude Rawson

  • English Subtitles by Peter Porter
  • Unplayed Music by Carol Rumens
  • Close Relatives by Vicki Feaver

• Patricia Beer

  • Part of a Journey: An Autobiographical Journal 1977-1979 by Philip Toynbee

• Gabriel Josipovici

  • Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective edited by William Rubin
  • Picasso: His Life and Work by Roland Penrose
  • Portrait of Picasso by Roland Penrose
  • Viva Picasso: A Centennial Celebration, 1881-1981 by Donald Duncan
  • Picasso: The Cubist Years, 1907-1916 by Pierre Daix and Joan Rosselet
  • Picasso’s Guernica: The Labyrinth of Vision by Frank Russell

• Brigid Brophy

  • The Game: My 40 Years in Tennis by Jack Kramer and Frank Deford

• Raymond Williams

  • Collected Plays by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim and Eyre Manheim
  • Collected Plays: Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht, edited by Ralph Manheim, translated by John Willett
  • Collected Plays: Mother Courage and her Children by Bertolt Brecht, edited by John Willett and Ralph Manheim, translated by John Willett
  • Collected Plays: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht, edited by John Willett and Ralph Manheim, translated by Ralph Manheim

• David Cannadine

  • Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East End Tenement Block 1887-1920 by Jerry White
  • East End Underworld: Chapters in the Life of Arthur Harding by Raphael Samuel

• Jonathan Sumption

  • Crusader Institutions by Joshua Prawer

• Ronald Fraser

  • Modern Spain 1875-1980 by Raymond Carr

• C.K. Stead
  Poem: ‘A Warm Wind from the East’

• E.S. Turner

  • An Ensign in the Peninsular War: The Letters of John Aitchison edited by W.F.K Thompson