Cover: John and Charles Watson

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Brewer
• Samuel Brittan
• Peter Burke
• Marilyn Butler
• Peter Campbell
• David Cannadine
• Jon Elster
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Francis Haskell
• Charles Hope
• Clive James
• W.R. Mead
• Robert Melville
• Nicholas Penny
• Christopher Reid
• Isaac Bashevis Singer
• Robert Taubman
• Jon Whiteley
• Patrick Wormald
• John Ziman

Contents

• Marilyn Butler

  • The Arrogant Connoisseur: Richard Payne Knight 1751-1824 edited by Michael Clarke and Nicholas Penny

• Letters
  Laurence Jacobs, Peter Todd Mitchell, Joseph Ginsburg, Matthew Tagney, Roland Morgan, David Lodge, Jonathan Grudin, Brigid Brophy, Jean Hill

• Patrick Wormald

  • A Short History of Archaeology by Glyn Daniel
  • A Social History of Archaeology by Kenneth Hudson
  • Rites of the Gods by Aubrey Burl

• Jon Elster

  • Marx’s Politics by Alan Gilbert
  • The History of Marxism. Vol. 1: Marxism in Marx’s Day edited by Eric Hobsbawm
  • Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism by Russell Jacoby
  • Analytical Foundations of Marxian Economic Theory by John Roemer
  • Karl Marx: The Arguments of the Philosophers by Allen Wood

• Samuel Brittan

  • Stagflation. Vol. 1: Wage Fixing by James Meade
  • Prices and Quantity by Arthur Okun

• Christopher Reid
  Two Poems

• Robert Taubman

  • The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera

• Charles Hope

  • Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man by Martin Kemp

• Nicholas Penny

  • Michelangelo and the Language of Art by David Summers
  • Bernini in France: An Episode in 17th-Century History by Cecil Gould

• Francis Haskell

  • Painting in l8th-Century France by Philip Conisbee
  • Word and Image: French Painting of the Ancien Régime by Norman Bryson

• Peter Burke

  • The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought by John Friedman
  • Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain by William Christian

• Jon Whiteley

  • The Meanings of Modern Art by John Russell
  • The Oxford Companion to 20th-Century Art edited by Harold Osborne
  • Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years by Robert Hobbs and Gail Levin

• John Brewer

  • The Watercolours and Drawings of Thomas Bewick and his Workshop Apprentices by Iain Bain

• David Cannadine

  • The Albert Memorial: The Monument in its Social and Architectural Context by Stephen Bayley
  • Victorian and Edwardian Town Halls by Colin Cunningham

• Peter Campbell

  • The Pre-Raphaelites by Christopher Wood
  • The Diary of Ford Madox Brown edited by Virginia Surtees
  • Eric Gill: Man of Flesh and Spirit by Malcolm Yorke

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • Christina Rossetti: A Divided Life by Georgina Battiscombe
  • The Golden Veil by Paddy Kitchen
  • The Little Holland House Album by Edward Burne-Jones and John Christian

• Robert Melville

  • Gwen John by Susan Chitty

• W.R. Mead

  • Shell Guide to Reading the Landscape by Richard Muir
  • The Environment in British Prehistory edited by Ian Simmons and Michael Tooley
  • Geography, Ideology and Social Concern edited by D.R. Stoddart

• John Ziman

  • From Being to Becoming by Ilya Prigogine

• Clive James
  Poem: ‘Diary’

• Lost in America – Part One of a Memoir by Isaac Bashevis Singer