Cover: Balthus

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• Rosemary Ashton
• Graham Bradshaw
• Peter Clarke
• David Daiches
• Dan Jacobson
• Clive James
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
• Thomas McKeown
• Peter Medawar
• John Murray
• John Sutherland
• A.J.P. Taylor
• John Ziman

Contents

• Peter Medawar

  • The Youngest Science by Lewis Thomas

• Letters
  R.W. Davies, E.J. Hobsbawm, John Barber & Jonathan Haslam, Ruth Nevo, Nicolas Walter, Bernard Richards, John Wakefield

• Peter Clarke

  • The People of England by Maurice Ashley
  • A New History of England, 410-1975 by L.C.B. Seaman
  • The Making of Modern British Politics, 1867-1939 by Martin Pugh

• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

  • The Republic in the Village by Maurice Agulhon, translated by Janet Lloyd

• John Sutherland writes about the history of publishing

  • From Author to Reader: A Social Study of Books by Peter Mann
  • David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, edited by Nina Burgis
  • Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, edited by Margaret Cardwell
  • Books and their Readers in 18th-Century England edited by Isabel Rivers
  • Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the 20th Century by Ian Norrie
  • Reading Relations by Bernard Sharratt

• Rosemary Ashton
  Two Velvet Peaches

• Clive James

  • The Second Life of Art: Selected Essays of Eugenio Montale translated by Jonathan Galassi
  • Prime alla Scala by Eugenio Montale
  • Eugenio Montale’s Poetry: A Dream in Reason’s Presence by Glauco Cambon

• Graham Bradshaw

  • Collected Stories by V.S. Pritchett

• John Ziman

  • Sir William Rowan Hamilton by Thomas Hankins
  • Gentlemen of Science: Early Years of the British Association for the Advancement of Science by Jack Morrell and Arnold Thackray
  • The Parliament of Science: The British Association for the Advancement of Science 1831-1981 edited by Roy MacLeod and Peter Collins

• David Daiches

  • Selected Writings of Cunninghame Graham edited by Cedric Watts
  • The Scottish Sketches of R.B. Cunninghame Graham edited by John Walker

• Thomas McKeown

  • Florence Nightingale: Reputation and Power by F.B. Smith
  • Edward Jenner: The Cheltenham Years 1795-1823 by Paul Saunders

• Dan Jacobson
  Patient

• Gabriele Annan

  • My Wife Maria Callas by Giovanni Battista Meneghini, translated by Henry Wisneski

• A.J.P. Taylor
  Diary

• John Murray
  The Señor and the Celtic Cross