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Vol. 8 No. 4 · 6 March 1986

  • David Trotter

    • Early Verse by Rudyard Kipling 1879-1889 edited by Andrew Rutherford
    • Kipling’s India: Uncollected Sketches 1884-88 edited by Thomas Pinney
    • Imperialism and Popular Culture edited by John MacKenzie
    • Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases edited by Henry Yule and A.C. Burnell

  • Letters

  • Ted Hughes
    Poem: ‘Manchester Skytrain’

  • John Kenneth Galbraith

  • Rex Winsbury
    Why Wapping?

  • William Doyle

    • What is history? by E.H. Carr, edited by R.W. Davies

  • C.R. Whittaker

    • Ancient History: Evidence and Models by M.I. Finley

  • Peter Burke

    • Trial by Impotence: Virility and Marriage in Pre-Revolutionary France by Pierre Darmon, translated by Paul Keegan
    • The Boundaries of Eros: Sex, Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice by Guido Ruggiero
    • The Tuscans and their Families: A Study of the Florentine Catasto of 1427 by David Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber
    • Women, Family and Ritual in Renaissance Italy by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, translated by Lydia Cochrane
    • French Women in the Age of Enlightenment edited by Samia Spencer

  • Patricia Craig

    • Breaking silence: Lesbian Nuns on Convent Sexuality edited by Rosemary Curb and Nancy Manahan

  • Martin Seymour-Smith

    • Aspects of Feeling by Peter Vansittart

  • D.A.N. Jones

    • The Recognitions by William Gaddis
    • JR by William Gaddis
    • Carpenter’s Gothic by William Gaddis

  • Lucy Anne Watt
    Poem: ‘Sheets’

  • Nicholas Spice

    • Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig, translated by Thomas Colchie
    • Back in the World by Tobias Wolff

  • Richard Altick

    • The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England 1850-1914 by Janet Oppenheim

  • Justin Broackes
    Hume and Scepticism

  • Sean French
    Diary

  • P.N. Furbank

    • Bernard Shaw’s Collected Letters. Vol. III: 1911-1925 edited by Dan Laurence