Cover: Tomi Ungerer

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Angus Calder
• Peter Campbell
• David Cannadine
• Donald Davie
• Nigel Hamilton
• Norman Hampson
• Charles Hope
• Graham Hough
• Waldemar Januszczak
• D.A.N. Jones
• David Marquand
• W.R. Mead
• Nicholas Penny
• Paul Seabright

Contents

• David Marquand

  • Hugh Dalton by Ben Pimlott

• Letters
  Roger Kojecky, Barbara Everett, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, John Sturrock, Bill Farrell, Ian and David Gilmour, Peter Ackroyd, Stephen Winkworth

• Nigel Hamilton

  • Mountbatten by Philip Ziegler

• Donald Davie
  Four Poems

• Angus Calder

  • Rural Life in England in the First World War by Pamela Horn
  • Britain in Our Century: Images and Controversies by Arthur Marwick
  • Labour and Society in Britain: 1918-1979 by James Cronin
  • Women in England 1870-1950: Sexual Divisions and Social Change by Jane Lewis

• W.R. Mead

  • The 2024 Report: A Concise History of the Future 1974-2024 by Norman Macrae
  • The Resourceful Earth: A Response to ‘Global 2000’ edited by Julian Simon and Herman Kahn

• Paul Seabright

  • The Forger’s Art edited by Denis Dutton
  • Of Mind and Other Matters by Nelson Goodman
  • Fact, Fiction and Forecast by Nelson Goodman
  • But is it art? by B.R. Tilghman

• Nicholas Penny

  • Art of the 19th Century: Painting and Sculpture by Robert Rosenblum and H.W. Janson
  • Romanticism and Realism: The Mythology of 19th-Century Art by Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner
  • Géricault: His Life and Work by Lorenz Eitner
  • Tradition and Desire: From David to Delacroix by Norman Bryson

• Peter Campbell

  • Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture by Paul Cummings, Jorn Merkert and Claire Stoullig
  • Abstract Expressionist Painting in America by William Seitz
  • About Rothko by Dore Ashton
  • The Art of the City: Views and Versions of New York by Peter Conrad

• Charles Hope

  • Dynasty and Destiny in Medici Art: Pontormo, Leo X and the Two Cosimos by Janet Cox-Rearick

• Graham Hough

  • The Magical Arts by Richard Cavendish
  • Astrology and the Third Reich: A Historical Study of Astrological Beliefs in Western Europe since 1700 and in Hitler’s Germany 1933-45 by Ellic Howe
  • The Astrology of Fate by Liz Greene
  • Dreams, Illusion and Other Realities by Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty
  • Fruits of the Moon Tree: The Medicine Wheel and Transpersonal Psychology by Alan Bleakley

• D.A.N. Jones

  • The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Paul Wilson
  • The Governess by Patricia Angadi
  • The Anderson Question by Bel Mooney
  • The centre of the universe is 18 Baedekerstrasse by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

• Norman Hampson

  • Beyond the Terror: Essays in French Regional and Social History 1794-1815 edited by Gwynne Lewis and Colin Lucas
  • Chouannerie and Counter-Revolution: Puisaye, the Princes and the British Government in the 1790s by Maurice Hutt
  • Britain and Revolutionary France: Conflict, Subversion and Propaganda edited by Colin Jones

• Waldemar Januszczak
  Diary

• David Cannadine

  • Elgar, the Man by Michael De-la-Noy
  • Edward Elgar: A Creative Life by Jerrold Northrop Moore
  • Spirit of England: Edward Elgar in his World by Jerrold Northrop Moore
  • The Elgar-Atkins Friendship by E. Wulstan Atkins