Vol. 4 No. 5 · 18 March 1982

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Cover Artist

John and

Marilyn Butler

The Arrogant Connoisseur: Richard Payne Knight 1751-1824 edited by Michael Clarke and Nicholas Penny. Manchester, 189 pp., £30, February 1982, 0 7190 0871 9

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. Thames and Hudson, 232 pp., £9.50, June 1981, 0 500 02101 5
A Social History of Archaeology by Kenneth Hudson. Macmillan, 197 pp., £20, March 1981, 0 333 25679 4
Rites of the Gods by Aubrey Burl. Dent, 258 pp., £12, September 1981, 0 460 04313 7

Jon Elster

Marx’s Politics by Alan Gilbert. Martin Robertson, 326 pp., £16.50, August 1981, 0 85520 441 9
The History of Marxism. Vol. 1: Marxism in Marx’s Day edited by Eric Hobsbawm. Harvester, 349 pp., £30, January 1982, 0 7108 0054 1
Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism by Russell Jacoby. Cambridge, 202 pp., £15.80, January 1982, 9780521239158
Analytical Foundations of Marxian Economic Theory by John Roemer. Cambridge, 230 pp., £19.50, August 1981, 0 521 23047 0
Karl Marx: The Arguments of the Philosophers by Allen Wood. Routledge, 304 pp., £13.50, January 1981, 0 7100 0672 1

Samuel Brittan

Stagflation. Vol. 1: Wage Fixing by James Meade. Allen and Unwin, 233 pp., £15, January 1982, 0 04 339023 4
Prices and Quantity by Arthur Okun. Blackwell, 382 pp., £15, August 1981, 0 631 12899 9

Christopher Reid

Two Poems

Robert Taubman

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera. Faber, 228 pp., £7.95, February 1982, 0 571 11830 5

Charles Hope

Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man by Martin Kemp. Dent, 384 pp., £14.95, August 1981, 0 460 04354 4

Nicholas Penny

Michelangelo and the Language of Art by David Summers. Princeton, 626 pp., £26.50, February 1981, 0 691 03957 7
Bernini in France: An Episode in 17th-Century History by Cecil Gould. Weidenfeld, 158 pp., £12.95, March 1982, 0 297 77944 3

Francis Haskell

Painting in l8th-Century France by Philip Conisbee. Phaidon, 224 pp., £20, October 1981, 0 7148 2147 0
Word and Image: French Painting of the Ancien Régime by Norman Bryson. Cambridge, 281 pp., £27.50, January 1982, 0 521 23776 9

Peter Burke

The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought by John Friedman. Harvard, 268 pp., £14, July 1981, 0 674 58652 2
Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain by William Christian. Princeton, 349 pp., £16.80, September 1981, 9780691053264

Jon Whiteley

The Meanings of Modern Art by John Russell. Thames and Hudson, 429 pp., £18, October 1981, 0 500 27248 4
The Oxford Companion to 20th-Century Art edited by Harold Osborne. Oxford, 656 pp., £19.50, November 1981, 0 19 866119 3
Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years by Robert Hobbs and Gail Levin. Cornell, 137 pp., £17.50, November 1981, 0 8014 1365 6

John Brewer

The Watercolours and Drawings of Thomas Bewick and his Workshop Apprentices by Iain Bain. Gordon Fraser, 233 pp., £125, July 1981, 0 86092 057 7

David Cannadine

The Albert Memorial: The Monument in its Social and Architectural Context by Stephen Bayley. Scholar Press, 160 pp., £18.50, September 1981, 0 85967 594 7
Victorian and Edwardian Town Halls by Colin Cunningham. Routledge, 315 pp., £25, July 1981, 9780710007230

Peter Campbell

The Pre-Raphaelites by Christopher Wood. Weidenfeld, 160 pp., £18, October 1981, 0 297 78007 7
The Diary of Ford Madox Brown edited by Virginia Surtees. Yale, 237 pp., £15, November 1981, 0 300 02743 5
Eric Gill: Man of Flesh and Spirit by Malcolm Yorke. Constable, 304 pp., £12.50, November 1981, 0 09 463740 7

Penelope Fitzgerald

Christina Rossetti: A Divided Life by Georgina Battiscombe. Constable, 233 pp., £9.50, May 1981, 0 09 461950 6
The Golden Veil by Paddy Kitchen. Hamish Hamilton, 286 pp., £7.95, May 1981, 0 241 10584 6
The Little Holland House Album by Edward Burne-Jones and John Christian. Dalrymple Press, 39 pp., £38, April 1981, 0 9507301 0 6

Robert Melville

Gwen John by Susan Chitty. Hodder, 223 pp., £9.95, September 1981, 0 340 24480 1

W.R. Mead

Shell Guide to Reading the Landscape by Richard Muir. Joseph, 368 pp., £10.50, May 1981, 0 7181 1971 1
The Environment in British Prehistory edited by Ian Simmons and Michael Tooley. Duckworth, 334 pp., £7.95, March 1981, 9780715614419
Geography, Ideology and Social Concern edited by D.R. Stoddart. Blackwell, 250 pp., £12, May 1981, 0 631 12717 8

John Ziman

From Being to Becoming by Ilya Prigogine. Freeman, 272 pp., £13.50, December 1980, 0 7167 1107 9

Clive James

Poem: ‘Diary’

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

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