Contemporary Review articles from September 2007

Contemporary Review archives from September 2007

The 'sick man of Europe' resurges.(decline of the Ottman Empire, as described by Nicholas I - Russian Czar from 1825-1855)
September 22, 2007... THE row between Britain and Russia over Moscow's refusal to extradite Andrey Lugovoy, the former Russian security officer accused of fatally poisoning his ex-comrade Alexander Litvinenko last year in London, has evolved into a diplomatic...

Cyber warfare between Estonia and Russia.
September 22, 2007... IT seemed innocuous enough. The grim bronze statue of a Soviet soldier in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, an already uncomfortable presence at the centre of a city no longer under Soviet 'occupation', was relocated last April to the tranquil...

Rural poverty in Kenya.
September 22, 2007... MARGARET Kitetu has seen many faces of poverty during her sixty years, but she says the worst was a drought so bad that some in her poor rural community hunted stray dogs for food. In her locality, where the Katelembo community of 250,000...

What's next for labour? The Brown succession.(Prime Minister Gordon Brown)
September 22, 2007... CONTEMPORARY REVIEW readers, like many people in the UK and around the world, will have been considering what to make of the recent change at the top of British politics. In June 2007, after ten years as Prime Minister, Tony Blair resigned to...

Blair's laws: an audit of a depressing decade.(former British Prime Minister Tony Blair)
September 22, 2007... MERE numbers sometimes tell a story eloquently. Most civilized nations make laws reluctantly, recognising that any law is a form of violence--a type of coercion by the state which should be avoided if at all possible. To make a lot of laws says...

End times for American liberalism.
September 22, 2007... DESPITE the most blatant violations of civil liberties in American history by a Southern evangelical President fighting a never-ending crusade against 'evil' itself, the three leading Democratic candidates for the 2008 presidential election,...

France's new President.(President Nicolas Sarkozy)
September 22, 2007... NICOLAS Sarkozy, Secretary General of the UMP, succeeded President Jacques Chirac, as President of France on 16 May, becoming the sixth President of the Fifth Republic and the thirty-seventh overall. He defeated his Socialist Party (PS) rival,...

Recording 2006: the Annual Register.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... THERE are few reference works, in any language, that are approaching a 250th birthday. One such is the Annual Register which is the oldest reference work of such a wide scope in our language and predates the Encyclopaedia Britannica by ten...

The Association of South East Asian Nations.
September 22, 2007... THE reason that textbooks use the European Union as the standard example of a regional organization is that it effectively is the only such successful regional organization. The second most successful organization--the Association of South East...

Broken flags of Ireland.
September 22, 2007... IT'S easy to think that if I'd not left Ireland, much that strikes me now as curious about the place would never have done so. There's an alluringly simple picture of coming back after years away and seeing things with a fresh eye. Such an...

French seascapes and Dutch portraits in London.
September 22, 2007... THE Royal Academy has added a copious sequence to its The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings. There one witnessed his liberation from the painstaking but mirthless caricatures he drew during his late schooldays at Le Havre, and such heavily...

The Tommy Dorsey musical legacy.(Biography)
September 22, 2007... WHAT does an historian of France do for a break in his endless summer of history--of books and data? Music is always a nice shift of gears, and an advertised Tommy Dorsey band concert seemed like a good idea; however, this historian has...

Poetry as the conscience of society.
September 22, 2007... A SUNDAY service from Manchester on BBC Radio reawakened the old debate of the rivalry between religion and politics in making the world a better place. The role of poetry was alluded to in that service, for what are hymns, if not religious...

Wasting money on Africa.(The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done so Much Ill and so Little Good)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done so Much Harm and so Little Good. William Easterly. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]16.99. ix + 380 pages. ISBN 0-19-921082-9. A provocative anecdote sums up...

Prof. Dawkins' problem with God.(The God Delusion)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The God Delusion. Richard Dawkins. Bantam Books. [pounds sterling]20.00. 416 pages. ISBN: 978-0593055-489. It is important to remember what Richard Dawkins is and what he isn't. He is a splendid writer, a first class zoologist and an...

Britain's multicultural nightmare.(Londonistan: How Britain is Creating a Terror State Within)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Londonistan: How Britain is Creating a Terror State Within. Melanie Phillips. Gibson Square. [pounds sterling]14.99. 304 pages. ISBN 978-1903933763 In Bradford in 1970, I met an elderly solicitor. He had been an officer in the Indian...

A dead poet's society--Stephen Phillips revisited.(Stephen Phillips: A Biography)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Stephen Phillips: A Biography. Richard Whittington-Egan. Rivendale Press. [pounds sterling]30.00 (US$50.00). xiv + 272 pages. ISBN 1-904201-01-6. Richard Whittington-Egan first made a name for himself as an authority on fin de siecle...

The Bible and Christianity in the Global South.(The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South. Philip Jenkins. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]16.99. xi + 252 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-530065-9. The Bible is full of feud, sorcery, plague, prostitution,...

Thomas Hardy without his guard.(Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life. Ralph Pite. Picador. [pounds sterling]25.00. 522 pages. ISBN 078-350-48186-1. In spite of Hardy's closeness to our time, the apparent wealth of sources and the evidence of surviving contemporaries, he is as...

India and Mountbatten's legacy.(The Shadow of the Great Game: the Untold Story of India's Partition)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Shadow of the Great Game: the Untold Story of India's Partition. Narendra Singh Sarila. Constable. [pound sterling]20.00. 432 pages. ISBN 1-84529-370-3. The author defines 'The Great Game' as the strategic political competition between...

Profumo on Profumo.(Bringing the House Down: A Family Memoir)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Bringing the House Down: A Family Memoir. David Profumo. John Murray. [pounds sterling]20.00. xii + 291 pages. ISBN 0-7195-6608-8. The Profumo affair, which caused the Macmillan government so much embarrassment in the early 1960s, possessed...

The legacy of Susan Sontag.(At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches. Susan Sontag. Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump, editors. Hamish Hamilton. [pounds sterling]18.99. xvii + 235 pages. ISBN 978-0-241-14371-1. This title was first published in the US by Farrar, Strauss &...

Shakespeare the Thinker.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Shakespeare the Thinker. A.D. Nuttall. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]25.00. xi + 428 pages. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11928-2. Shakespeare Revealed: A Biography. Rene Weis. John Murray. [pounds sterling]25.00. xv + 444 pages. ISBN...

The world of paperbacks.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2007... PIMLICO has brought out a wide range of new titles. On the biographical front we have Lauro Martines' Scourge and Fire: Savonarola and Renaissance Italy ([pounds sterling]8.99) and Prof. Frederick Brown's highly praised Flaubert: A Life...

The War for all the Oceans: from Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The War for all the Oceans: from Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo. Roy Adkins and Lesley Adkins. Little, Brown. [pounds sterling]20.00. xxvi + 534 pages. ISBN 0-316-72837-3. As the authors point out, the Napoleonic Wars, as regards...

Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable. John Ayto and Ian Crofton. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. [pounds sterling]30.00. xiii + 853 pages. ISBN 0-304-36809-1. This second edition replaces that of 2000 and has been fully revised. In addition the...

The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge. Adam Sisman. HarperPress. [pounds sterling]20.00. xxv + 480 pages. ISBN 0-00-716052-6. The friendship of the two great Romantic poets, and its effect on the subsequent history of English poetry, have...

Sand in My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Sand in My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF. Joan Rice. HarperPress. [pounds sterling]16.99. 400 pages. ISBN 978-000-722-8201 When the war broke out the diarist was a nineteen year old typist from a middle-class family. She immediately joined...

The Routledge Companion to Early Modern Europe 1453-1763.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Routledge Companion to Early Modern Europe 1453-1763. Chris Cook and Philip Broadhead. Routledge. [pounds sterling]17.99 p.b. x + 369 pages. ISBN 0-415-40958-2. This edition replaces that of 2001 published by Longmans. It includes a wealth...

Daughter of the Desert: The Remarkable Life of Gertrude Bell.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Daughter of the Desert: The Remarkable Life of Gertrude Bell. Georgina Howell. Macmillan. [pounds sterling]20.00. xxiv + 519 pages. ISBN 1-4050-4587-6. One of the most interesting and most influential women in the history of the Middle East in...

Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War. Allen Lane. [pounds sterling]20.00. 352 pages. ISBN 0-713-99879-2. This collection of articles was based on tours of the United States undertaken by Cooke...

Churchill's Crusade: The British Invasion of Russia, 1918-1920.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Churchill's Crusade: The British Invasion of Russia 1918-1920. Clifford Kinvig. Hambledon Continuum. [pounds sterling]25.00. xx + 373 pages. ISBN 1-85285-477-4. General Kinvig's study aims at shedding light on an aspect of British history that...

Tchaikovsky: The Man and His Music.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Tchaikovsky: The Man and His Music. David Brown. Faber and Faber. [pounds sterling]25.00. xix + 460 pages. ISBN 0-571-23194-2. Prof. Brown, famous for his four-volume study of Tchaikovsky's life and music, has now produced a one-volume...

POW: Allied Prisoners in Europe, 1939-1945.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... POW: Allied Prisoners in Europe, 1939-1945. Adrian Gilbert. John Murray. [pounds sterling]20.00. xvi + 398 pages. ISBN 0-7195-6128-0. Germany and Italy detained just under 300,000 Allied POW's (the exact number cannot be ascertained). While...

Turner in His Time.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Turner in His Time. Andrew Wilton. Thames & Hudson. [pounds sterling]24.95. 256 pages. ISBN 0-500-23830-8. This beautifully illustrated book gives readers excellent reproductions of over 150 of the artist's works and is a new version of the...

Selling Olga: Stories of Human Traficking and Resistance.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Selling Olga: Stories of Human Traficking and Resistance. Louisa Waugh. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. [pounds sterling]16.99. ix + 262 pages. ISBN 0-297-85070-9. Put simply, this book reminds social scientists and the general reader that what used to...

After Suez: Adrift in the American Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... After Suez: Adrift in the American Century. Martin Woollacott. I.B. Tauris. [pounds sterling]16.99. ix + 166 pages. ISBN 978-1-84511-176-2. Mr Woollacott, a journalist for the Guardian, sets out 'to sketch how we got from Suez in 1956 to Iraq...

Thermopylae: The Battle that Changed the World.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Thermopylae: The Battle that Changed the World. Paul Cartledge. Macmillan. [pounds sterling]20.00. xxxv + 300 pages. ISBN 1-4050-3289-8. Prof. Cartledge has already written popular studies of Alexander the Great and the Spartans. Here he turns...

Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes. Fiona MacCarthy. Faber and Faber. [pounds sterling]20.00. xiii + 305 pages. ISBN 0-571-22859-3. This study, by the Guardian journalist and biographer, describes the end of court presentations, the...

After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995. Konrad H. Jaraousch. Brandon Hunziker, translator. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]19.99. xiii + 379 pages. ISBN 0-19-12779-X. The catastrophe of post-Saddam Iraq has focused attention on...

The Cambridge Companion to Shelley.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Cambridge Companion to Shelley. Timothy Morton, editor. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]45.00 (US$80.00). xvii + 219 pages. ISBN 0-521-82604-7. This latest number in Cambridge's 'companion' series follows the usual format:...

The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter. Matthew Dennison. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. [pounds sterling]20.00. xvii + 302 pages. ISBN 978-0-297-84794-6. To write a biography of Princess Beatrice, later Princess...

The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Eighteenth Century 1688-1820.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Eighteenth Century 1688-1820. Jeremy Gregory and John Stevenson. Routledge. [pounds sterling]19.99 p.b. xi + 494 pages. ISBN 978-0-415-37883-3. This volume began its life in 2000 as one of the famous...

John Constable: A Kingdom of His Own.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... John Constable: A Kingdom of His Own. Anthony Bailey. Chatto & Windus. [pounds sterling]17.99. xviii + 366 pages. ISBN 978-0-701-17884-0. Mr Bailey has written the first proper biography of Constable since that of 1843. He has used his own...

Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations. Martin Goodman. Allen Lane. [pounds sterling]25.00. xiv + 639 pages. ISBN 978-0-713-99447-6. Mr Goodman asks if Roman troops' destruction of the Temple, the embodiment of the Jewish...

T.S. Eliot.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... T.S. Eliot. Craig Raine. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]12.99. xxi + 202 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-530993-5. This short study, part of O.U.P. New York's Lives and Legacies series, argues that 'the Buried Life, the idea of a life not fully...

Edward VI: The Lost King of England.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Edward VI: The Lost King of England. Chris Skidmore. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. [pounds sterling]20.00. xxii + 346 pages. ISBN 978-0-297-84649-9. Given the number of recent studies of this period, one wonders what there is new to say about Edward...

The Life of Kingsley Amis.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Life of Kingsley Amis. Zachery Leader. Jonathan Cape. [pounds sterling]25.00. xii + 996 pages. ISBN 0-224-06227-1. Prof. Leader, who has already edited Amis's correspondence, is in no doubt that he 'was not only the finest British comic...

Adam Elsheimer.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Adam Elsheimer. Rudiger Klessmann et al. Paul Holberton. [pounds sterling]35.00. 246 pages. ISBN 1-903470-47-1. The sumptuous production of Adam Elsheimer (with its 37 colour-plates, all meticulously reproduced, and its 163 additional...

Britain's Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918-1968.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Britain's Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918-1968. Ronald Hyam. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]45.00 (US$85.00). xvii + 464 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-68555-9. This study is essentially a sequel to the author's...

Europe at War, 1939-1945: No Simple Victory.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory. Norman Davies. Macmillan. [pounds sterling]25.00. xv + 544 pages. ISBN 0-333-69285-3. Prof. Davies argues that our understanding has become too 'fragmented'. In the UK we ignore the Empire; in the US...

The Renaissance Popes: Culture, Power and the Making of the Borgia Myth.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Renaissance Popes: Culture, Power and the Making of the Borgia Myth. Gerard Noel. Constable. [pounds sterling]25.00. ix + 403 pages. ISBN 1-84529-343-6. While Mr Noel accepts that the 'Renaissance popes' can 'hardly be called... "good...

Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century. Marina Warner. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]18.99. xx + 469 pages. ISBN 0-19-929994-3. Marina Warner, who rejects the thesis of a 'God-given soul',...

The Private Lives of the Impressionists.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Private Lives of the Impressionists. Sue Roe. Chatto & Windus. [pounds sterling]18.99. xii + 356 pages. ISBN 0-701-17505-2. In the history of European art seldom has a group become as famous as the French Impressionists--the Pre-Raphaelites...

A.J.P. Taylor: Radical Historian of Europe.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... A.J.P. Taylor: Radical Historian of Europe. Chris Wrigley. I.B. Tauris. [pounds sterling]25.00. viii + 439 pages. ISBN 1-86064-286-1. This is the third biography of the historian of Europe who became one of the earliest and most famous of the...

Growing Up in France: From the Ancien Regime to the Third Republic.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Growing Up in France: From the Ancien Regime to the Third Republic. Colin Heywood. Cambidge University Press. [pounds sterling]50.00 (US$90.00). xi +313 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-86869-3. This book looks at the nature of childhood in France during...

Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947. Christopher Clark. Allen Lane. [pounds sterling]30.00. xxix + 777 pages. ISBN 0-713-99466-5. Prussia under the Hohenzollerns is as much a symbol as a former kingdom. Was it the...

The Origins of the British: A Genetic Detective Story.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Origins of the British: A Genetic Detective Story. Stephen Oppenheimer. Constable. [pounds sterling]20.00. xxi + 534 pages. ISBN 978-1-84529-158-7. Mr Oppenheimer is to be congratulated on producing not only a fascinating book but a brave...

Gerard Manley Hopkins: Oxford Essays and Notes.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Gerard Manley Hopkins: Oxford Essays and Notes. Lesley Higgins, editor. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]85.00. xxiv + 368 pages. ISBN 0-19-928545-4. With this volume O.U.P. begins The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins which...

Debating Nationhood and Governance in Britain, 1885-1939: Perspectives from the 'Four Nations'.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Debating Nationhood and Governance in Britain, 1885-1939: Perspectives from the 'Four Nations'. Duncan Tanner, Chris Williams, Wil Griffith and Andrew Edwards, editors. Manchester University Press. [pounds sterling]60.00. xi + 270 pages. ISBN...

The Daily Telegraph Military Obituaries Book 2.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Daily Telegraph Military Obituaries Book 2. David Twiston Davies, editor. Grub Street. [pounds sterling]17.99. 427 pages. ISBN 1-904943-60-8. The obituaries in The Daily Telegraph have acquired a justified fame for their balance, humour and...

Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez and Decolonization. Collected Essays.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez and Decolonization. Collected Essays. Wm. Roger Louis. I.B. Tauris. [pounds sterling]24.50. xv + 1065 pages. ISBN 1-84511-309-8. Prof. Lewis has garnered this collection of thirty-four...

Ireland's Minstrel: A Life of Tom Moore: Poet, Patriot and Byron's Friend.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Ireland's Minstrel A Life of Tom Moore: Poet, Patriot and Byron's Friend. Linda Kelly. I.B. Tauris. [pounds sterling]20.00. ix + 262 pages. ISBN 978-1-84511-252-3. Were it not for Moore's Irish Melodies the poet probably would have been...

Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India. Stanley Wolpert. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]16.99. xiii + 238 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-515198-5. Prof. Wolpert makes his position clear from the title page and...

Shropshire.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Shropshire. John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner with contributions from Gavin Watson, Michael Watson and Roger White. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]29.95. xviii + 787 pages. ISBN 978-0-300-12083-7. Shropshire remains one of England's...

Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. Jessie Childs. Jonathan Cape. [pounds sterling]20.00. xix + 391 pages. ISBN 978-0-224-06325-8. As the author acknowledges, there have been other books on Surrey and...

In the Shadow of the Dictators: The British Left in the 1930s.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... In the Shadow of the Dictators: The British Left in the 1930s. Paul Corthorn. Tauris Academic Studies. [pounds sterling]47.50. vi + 281 pages. ISBN 978-1-85043-843-4. This study is concerned with the reactions of organisations on the...

Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland. Richard English. Macmillan. [pounds sterling]25.00. xiii + 625 pages. ISBN 978-1-4050-4189-8. This title, which is something of a follow-up to Prof. English's earlier history of the IRA...

The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels. Stephen C. Barton, editor. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]40.00 (US$75.00). xii + 300 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-00261-5. The aim of the thirteen essays in this collection, based as they are on...

Sacred Causes: Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to al Qaeda.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Sacred Causes: Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to al Qaeda. Michael Burleigh. HarperPress. [pounds sterling]25.00. xviii + 557 pages. ISBN 978-00-719574-9. This volume follows Prof. Burleigh's earlier study, Earthly Powers,...

Dear Mr Cockerell, Dear Mr Peirce: An Annotated Description of the Correspondence of Sydney C. Cockerell and Harold Peirce in the Grolier Club Archive.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Dear Mr Cockerell, Dear Mr Peirce: An Annotated Description of the Correspondence of Sydney C. Cockerell and Harold Peirce in the Grolier Club Archive. Arthur L. Schwarz. Rivendale Press. [pounds sterling]30.00. 224 pages. ISBN...

Hogarth, France and British Art: The Rise of the Arts in 18th-Century Britain.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Hogarth, France and British Art: The Rise of the Arts in 18th-Century Britain. Robin Simon. Hogarth Arts. [pounds sterling]45.00. vi + 313 pages. ISBN 978-0-9554063-0-0. In this study the author, head of British pictures at Tate Britain,...

Texts and Traditions: Religion in Shakespeare, 1592-1604.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Texts and Traditions: Religion in Shakespeare 1592-1604. Beatrice Groves. Clarendon Press. [pounds sterling]50.00. xi + 231 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-920898-2. This interesting examination by-passes the 'Was Shakespeare a Catholic' debate to focus...

The Originals: The Secret History of the Birth of the SAS in Their Own Words.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Originals: The Secret History of the Birth of the SAS in Their Own Words. Gordon Stevens. Ebury Press. [pounds sterling]18.99. x + 342 pages. ISBN 0-978-00919017-7. This collection describes the establishment of the SAS during World War II...

Gunpowder and Incense: The Catholic Church and the Spanish Civil War.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Gunpowder and Incense: The Catholic Church and the Spanish Civil War. Hilary Raguer. Gerald Howson, translator. Routledge. [pounds sterling]75.00. xx + 418 pages. ISBN 978-0-415-31889-1. As the author reminds us, the role of the Church in the...

Sovereign Ladies: The Six Reigning Queens of England.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Sovereign Ladies: The Six Reigning Queens of England. Maureen Waller. John Murray. [pounds sterling]25.00. xix + 555 pages. ISBN 0-978-0-7195-6628-8. The queens regnant included begin with Mary I and end with Elizabeth II. In between are...

Lord Kitchener and the War in South Africa 1899-1902.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Lord Kitchener and the War in South Africa 1899-1902. Andre Wessels, editor. Sutton Publishing for the Army Records Society. [pounds sterling]50.00. xxxvi + 374 pages. ISBN 978-0-7509-4557-8. In 1899, Kitchener, whose star had risen after the...

Germany: The Long Road West. Volume I: 1789-1933.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Germany: The Long Road West. Volume I: 1789-1933. Heinrich August Winkler. Alexander J. Sager, translator. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]35.00. ix + 599 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-926597-8. This title, published in Germany in 2000, is...