Cover: Patrick Procktor

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Richard Altick
• Denis Arnold
• W.H. Auden
• A.J. Ayer
• Brian Bond
• Anita Brookner
• Denis Donoghue
• Christopher Driver
• Jon Elster
• M.I. Finley
• David Fraser
• Michael Ignatieff
• P.N. Johnson-Laird
• Betty Kemp
• Martin Lightfoot
• Roy Porter
• Pat Rogers
• Anne Sofer
• Nicholas Spice
• C.K. Stead
• J.I.M. Stewart

Contents

• J.I.M. Stewart

  • ‘Oh Beloved Kids’: Rudyard Kipling’s Letters to his Children edited by Elliot Gilbert

• Letters
  D.G. Wright, Park Honan, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’, Vivian Elliot, Julia Wellard

• Roy Porter

  • Montaigne: Essays in Reading edited by Gérard Defaux
  • Montaigne and Melancholy: The Wisdom of the ‘Essays’ by M.A. Screech

• Jon Elster

  • Mémoires by Raymond Aron
  • Clausewitz: Philosopher of War by Raymond Aron, translated by Norman Stone and Christine Booker
  • Clausewitz by Michael Howard

• David Fraser

  • Monty. Vol. II: Master of the Battlefield 1942-1944 by Nigel Hamilton
  • Decision in Normandy: The Unwritten Story of Montgomery and the Allied Campaign by Carlo D’Este

• Brian Bond

  • Fire-Power: British Army Weapons and Theories of War by Shelford Bidwell and Dominick Graham
  • The Crucible of War: Year of Alamein 1942 by Barrie Pitt

• Anne Sofer

  • The Battle for Bermondsey by Peter Tatchell

• Martin Lightfoot
  In Defence of ILEA

• Betty Kemp

  • The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke. Vol. II: Party, Parliament and the American Crisis, 1766-1774 edited by Paul Langford
  • The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke. Vol. V: India: Madras and Bengal, 1774-1785 edited by P.J. Marshall
  • The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Constitutional Code, Vol. I edited by F. Rosen and J.H. Burns
  • The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Deontology, together with a Table of the Springs of Action and Article on Utilitarianism edited by Amnon Goldworth
  • The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Chrestomathia edited by M.J. Smith and W.H. Burston
  • Bentham and Bureaucracy by L.J. Hume
  • Jeremy Bentham and Representative Democracy: A Study of the Constitutional Code by Frederick Rosen
  • Bentham by Ross Harrison

• M.I. Finley

  • Death and Renewal. Sociological Studies in Roman History: Vol. II by Keith Hopkins

• Pat Rogers

  • The Other Side of the Fire by Alice Thomas Ellis
  • London Tales edited by Julian Evans
  • Londoners by Maureen Duffy
  • Good Friends, Just by Anne Leaton

• Anita Brookner

  • Fathers: Reflections by Daughters edited by Ursula Owen

• Denis Arnold

  • A History of English Opera by Eric Walter White

• Michael Ignatieff

  • The Shoemaker: Anatomy of a Psychotic by Flora Rheta Schreiber

• Christopher Driver

  • The String Quartet: A History by Paul Griffiths
  • Gyorgy Ligeti by Paul Griffiths

• Nicholas Spice

  • Otto Klemperer: His Life and Times. Vol.I: 1885-1933 by Peter Heyworth
  • Score and Podium: A Complete Guide to Conducting by Frederik Prausnitz
  • The New Oxford Companion to Music edited by Denis Arnold

• P.N. Johnson-Laird

  • Consciousness Regained: Chapters in the Development of Mind by Nicholas Humphrey

• C.K. Stead
  Poem: ‘Between’

• A.J. Ayer
  Diary

• W.H. Auden
  Poem: ‘Letter to an Editor’

• Denis Donoghue

  • W.H.Auden: The Critical Heritage edited by John Haffenden
  • Auden: A Carnival of Intellect by Edward Callan
  • Drawn from the Life: A Memoir by Robert Medley

• Richard Altick

  • Lewis and Lewis by John Juxon