Table of Contents

Volume 4, Number 3 · March 11, 1965

Conor Cruise O'Brien, A Curious Queen

Queen Victoria by Elizabeth Longford

Helen Muchnic, Ilya Ehrenburg's Story

Memoirs: 1921-1941 by Ilya Ehrenburg

Oscar Gass, Monopoly

In a Few Hands: Monopoly Power in America by Estes Kefauver, by Irene Till

M.I. Finley, The Anonymity of Antiquity

Greece in the Bronze Age by Emily Vermeule

The Mycenaeans by Lord William Taylour

Henry David Aiken, C. Wright Mills and the Pragmatists

Sociology and Pragmatism: The Higher Learning in America by C. Wright Mills, edited with an Introduction by Irving Louis Horowitz

Robert Mazzocco, White Goddess and Black Sheep

Man Does, Woman Is by Robert Graves

The Mad Islands and The Administrator, Two Radio Plays by Louis MacNeice

Christopher Ricks, Dickens, Our Contemporary

Dickens: From Pickwick to Dombey by Steven Marcus

John H. Schaar, Sheldon S. Wolin, A Special Supplement: Berkeley and the Fate of the Multiversity

Bernard Bergonzi, New Novels

The Jealous God by John Braine

One Day by Wright Morris

Full Fathom Five by John Stewart Carter

E.J. Hobsbawm, A Christian Materialist

The Conquest of the Material World by John Nef

Michael Field, Table d'Hote

The Delectable Past by Esther B. Aresty

The Vogue Book of Menus by Jessica Daves, by Tatiana McKenna. and the Editors of Vogue

The Chamberlain Calendar of French Menus by Narcisse, Narcissa G., by Samuel Chamberlain

Gourmet's Menu Cookbook

Edmund R. Leach, A Classic of Anthropology

Ancient Society by Lewis Morgan, edited by Leslie A. White

Bernard Williams, Willey Thinking

The English Moralists by Basil Willey


Letters

Earl S. Johnsin, Kennedyana
L. Mullins, Kennedyana
David E. Sanford, Kennedyana
Robert J. Shea, Kennedyana
Sol Babitz, The Landowska Approach
Michael Straight, Malcolm Muggeridge, Kennedyana
J. Ellul, George Lichtheim, Technological Society
Robert Langbaum, Wordsworth
Joel Carmichael, M.I. Finley, Jesus and the Jews
Cal Cohn, The Age of Biology



Contributors

M. I. Finley (1912-1986), the son of Nathan Finkelstein and Anna Katzellenbogen, was born in New York City. He graduated from Syracuse University at the age of fifteen and received an MA in public law from Columbia, before turning to the study of ancient history. During the Thirties Finley taught at Columbia and City College and developed an interest in the sociology of the ancient world that was shaped in part by his association with members of the Frankfurt School who were working in exile in America. In 1952, when he was teaching at Rutgers, Finley was summoned before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and asked whether he had ever been a member of the Communist Party. He refused to answer, invoking the Fifth Amendment; by the end of the year he had been fired from the university by a unanimous vote of its trustees. Unable to find work in the US, Finley moved to England, where he taught for many years at Cambridge, helping to redirect the focus of classical education from a narrow emphasis on philology to a wider concern with culture, economics, and society. He became a British subject in 1962 and was knighted in 1979. Among Finley's best-known works are The Ancient Economy, Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology, and The World of Odysseus.

Conor Cruise O'Brien's many books include God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism and The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution. His Memoir: My Life and Themes will be published in the US in May. (December 2000)

Christopher Ricks is William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and Professor of Poetry at Oxford. His most recent book is Dylan’s Visions of Sin. (March 2008)

Bernard Williams is Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His most recent book is Making Sense of Humanity. The article in this issue is a revised version of the Orr Lecture given in the Music Faculty of Cambridge University, May 2000. An earlier draft was given at the Nexus Institute, Tilburg, Holland. (November 2000)


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