Cover: Christopher Killip

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• J.H. Burns
• Angus Calder
• Ciaran Carson
• Patricia Craig
• Mark Edmundson
• Paul Foot
• Alastair Fowler
• Ian Hamilton
• Seamus Heaney
• Philip Horne
• Samuel Hynes
• Frank Kermode
• James McConica
• Karl Miller
• Martin Pugh
• Pat Rogers
• Alan Ryan
• Stephen Sedley

Contents

• John Bayley

  • Friends of Promise: Cyril Connolly and the World of ‘Horizon’ by Michael Shelden
  • Coastwise Lights by Alan Ross
  • William Plomer by Peter Alexander

• Letters
  Anthony Arblaster, E.P. Thompson, Joseph Tainter, Beryl Graves, Ronald Strom, Philip Collins, Ann Monsarrat, Christopher Herzig, Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Marilyn Butler, Terry Eagleton,, Peter Straus, Geraldine Cooke, Editors, ‘London Review’, John Bayley, Roger Hardy, Chris Richards

• Samuel Hynes

  • Louis MacNeice: A Study by Edna Longley
  • Louis MacNeice: Selected Poems edited by Michael Longley
  • A Scatter of Memories by Margaret Gardiner

• Frank Kermode
  Third World

• Angus Calder

  • Breach of Promise: Labour in Power 1964-1970 by Clive Ponting
  • James Maxton by Gordon Brown
  • Forward! Labour Politics in Scotland 1888-1988 edited by Ian Donnachie, Christopher Harvie and Ian Wood

• Seamus Heaney
  Poem: ‘A Royal Prospect’

• Paul Foot

  • The Wilson Plot: The Intelligence Services and the Discrediting of a Prime Minister by David Leigh
  • A Price too High by Peter Rawlinson

• Martin Pugh

  • Rotten Borough by Oliver Anderson

• Ian Hamilton
  Two Poems

• Stephen Sedley

  • The Spycatcher Trial by Malcolm Turnbull
  • Reform of the Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911: Government White Paper
  • Official Secrets Bill
  • Security Service Bill

• Karl Miller

  • A Disaffection by James Kelman
  • The Book of Sandy Stewart edited by Roger Leitch

• James McConica

  • Erasmus’s Annotations on the New Testament. The Gospels: Facsimile of the final Latin text with all earlier variants edited by Anne Reeve
  • Erasmus’s Annotations on the New Testament: From Philologist to Theologian by Erika Rummel
  • A New Rabelais Bibliography: Editions of Rabelais before 1626 by Stephen Rawles and M.A. Screech
  • The Library of Robert Burton by Nicholas Kiessling

• Alastair Fowler

  • Shakespeare’s Scepticism by Graham Bradshaw
  • The Elizabethan Hamlet by Arthur McGee

• Pat Rogers

  • The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe by P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens
  • The ‘Tatler’: Vols I-III edited by Donald Bond
  • The ‘Spectator’: Vols I-V edited by Donald Bond

• J.H. Burns

  • Whigs and Liberals: Continuity and Change in English Political Thought by J.W. Burrow

• Alan Ryan

  • Tocqueville: A Biography by André Jardin, translated by Lydia Davis and Robert Hemenway

• Ciaran Carson
  Poem: ‘Hamlet’

• Philip Horne
  Diary

• Mark Edmundson

  • Borrowed Time by Paul Monette

• Patricia Craig

  • Fictions of the Irish Literary Revival: A Changling Art by John Wilson Foster