Cover: Beryl Cook

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Julian Barnes
• Tessa Blackstone
• John Brewer
• Brigid Brophy
• David Cannadine
• Russell Davies
• M.I. Finley
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Peter France
• Ted Hughes
• D.A.N. Jones
• Edmund Leach
• Jamie McKendrick
• Peter Medawar
• Nicholas Penny
• Christopher Reid
• Christopher Ricks
• Simon Schaffer
• C.H. Sisson
• A.J.P. Taylor
• E.S. Turner

Contents

• M.I. Finley

  • Blood for the Ghosts: Classical Influences in the 19th and 20th Centuries by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
  • Classical Survivals: The Classics in the Modern World by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
  • History of Classical Scholarship by U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorf, edited by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, translated by Alan Harris

• Peter Medawar

  • Prejudices: A Philosophical Dictionary by Robert Nisbet

• Letters
  Richard Hall, Colin Legum, Philip Larkin, Jeffrey Mehlman, Lindsay Waters, Graham Bradshaw, Elizabeth Roberts, Warwick Gould

• Julian Barnes

  • The ‘Private Eye’ Story: The First 21 Years by Patrick Marnham
  • One for the Road: Further Letters of Denis Thatcher by Richard Ingrams and John Wells
  • Sir James Goldsmith: The Man and the Myth by Geoffrey Wansell

• Ted Hughes
  Poem: ‘The Great Irish Pike’

• Russell Davies

  • The Noel Coward Diaries edited by Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley

• David Cannadine

  • Duchess: The Story of Wallis Warfield Windsor by Stephen Birmingham
  • The Duke of Windsor’s War by Michael Bloch

• Brigid Brophy

  • Bernard Shaw: The Darker Side by Arnold Silver
  • Bernard Shaw and Alfred Douglas: A Correspondence edited by Mary Hyde

• Christopher Reid

  • The Life of John Berryman by John Haffenden
  • Poets in their Youth: A Memoir by Eileen Simpson

• Christopher Ricks

  • T.S. Eliot: The Critical Heritage edited by Michael Grant

• John Brewer

  • In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714-1760 by Linda Colley
  • Dynamics of Change: The Crisis of the 1750s and English Party Systems by J.C.D. Clark

• Peter France

  • The Literary Underground of the Old Regime by Robert Darnton

• Edmund Leach

  • The Sacred Executioner: Human Sacrifice and the Legacy of Guilt by Hyam Maccoby

• Simon Schaffer

  • Stolen Lightning: The Social Theory of Magic by Daniel O’Keefe
  • Scienze, Credenze Occulti, Livelli di Cultura edited by Paola Zambelli

• Tessa Blackstone

  • The Changing Anatomy of Britain by Anthony Sampson
  • An English Education: A Perspective of Eton by Richard Ollard
  • Survival Programmes in Britain’s Inner Cities
  • Liverpool 8 by John Cornelius
  • The Other Britain edited by Paul Barker

• Nicholas Penny
  Goddesses and Girls

• E.S. Turner

  • The Penguin Stephen Leacock by Robertson Davies
  • Jerome K. Jerome: A Critical Biography by Joseph Connolly
  • Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome, annotated and introduced by Benny Green
  • The Lost Stories of W.S. Gilbert edited by Peter Haining

• C.H. Sisson

  • Some day I’ll find you: An Autobiography by H.A. Williams

• A.J.P. Taylor
  Diary

• D.A.N. Jones

  • Her Victory by Alan Sillitoe
  • This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, translated by Max Lane

• Penelope Fitzgerald
  The Prescription

• Jamie McKendrick
  Poem: ‘Earthbound’