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Volume 25, Number 3 · March 9, 1978

V.S. Pritchett, A Gentle-Violent Man

The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Works by Angus Wilson

Ernst Gombrich, The Life-giving Touch

P.P.Rubens: Paintings, Oilsketches, Drawings June 29-September 30, 1977 Catalogue of the Exhibition, Antwerp, Royal Museum of Fine Arts,

P.P.Rubens by Frans Baudouin, translated by Elsie Callander

Rubens and Italy by Michael Jaffé

Rubens, Drawings and Sketches in the British Museum, 1977 Publications Limited by John Rowlands. Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Department of Prints and Drawings

Rubens compiled and with an introduction by Keith Roberts

I.F. Stone, Confessions of a Jewish Dissident

Edmund S. Morgan, The Great Political Fiction

Commons Debates 1628 Volume I: Introduction and Reference Materials Volume II: March 17-April 19, 1628 Volume III: April 21-May 27, 1628 edited by Robert C. Johnson, edited by Mary Frear Keeler, edited by Maija Jansson Cole, edited by William B. Bidwell

Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789 Volume I: August 1774-August 1775 Volume II: August-December 1775 edited by Paul H. Smith

The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution Volume I: Constitutional Documents and Records, 1776-1787 Volume II: Ratification of the Constitution by States, Pennsylvania edited by Merrill Jensen

The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790, Volume I edited by Merrill Jensen, edited by Robert A. Becker

J.Z. Young, Animal Babel

How Animals Communicate edited by Thomas A. Sebeok

Anna Akhmatova, Fragment, 1959 (poem)

Conor Cruise O'Brien, The End of White Rule?

Keith Thomas, The Rise of the Fork

The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners by Norbert Elias, translated by Edmund Jephcott

Human Figurations: Essays for Norbert Elias edited by Peter R. Gleichmann, edited by Johan Goudsblom, edited by Hermann Korte

Neal Ascherson, Call for Chaos

The City Builder by George Konrád, translated by Ivan Sanders

Henry Gifford, Mandelstam Whole

Osip Mandelstam: Selected Essays translated by Sidney Monas

Mandelstam: The Later Poetry by Jennifer Baines

Osip Mandelstam, Poem (poem)

H.L.A. Hart, Morality and Reality

The Nature of Morality: An Introduction to Ethics by Gilbert Harman

Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong by J.L. Mackie

Robert Craft, Too Little Waugh

Evelyn Waugh: A Little Order A Selection From His Journalism edited by Dorat Gallagher

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Letters

Sidney Bloch, Peter B. Reddaway, et al. Psychiatry and Politics
Phyllis Roa, Psychiatry and Politics
Michael Parenti, Psychiatry and Politics
Louis Berrone, Michael Wood, Joyce's Influenza
Harry Woolf, Oppenheimer Fund

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Contributors

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2008)

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich OM was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London on November 3, 2001, aged 92. He studied at the Theresianum and then at the Second Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser (1928-33). He then worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During World War 2 he was employed by the BBC as a Radio Monitor. After the war he rejoined the Warburg Institute eventually becoming its Director in 1959. His major publications include The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. (Also see: www.gombrich.co.uk.)

Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938) was born and raised in St. Petersburg, where he attended the prestigious Tenishev School, before studying at the universities of St. Petersburg and Heidelberg and at the Sorbonne. Mandelstam first published his poems in Apollyon, an avant-garde magazine, in 1910, then banded together with Anna Akhmatova and Nicholas Gumilev to form the Acmeist group, which advocated an aesthetic of exact description and chiseled form, as suggested by the title of Mandelstam's first book, Stone (1913). During the Russian Revolution, Mandelstam left Leningrad for the Crimea and Georgia, and he settled in Moscow in 1922, where his second collection of poems, Tristia, appeared. Unpopular with the Soviet authorities, Mandelstam found it increasingly difficult to publish his poetry, though an edition of collected poems did come out in 1928. In 1934, after reading an epigram denouncing Stalin to friends, Mandelstam was arrested and sent into exile. He wrote furiously during these years, and his wife, Nadezhda, memorized his work in case his notebooks were destroyed or lost. (Nadezhda Mandelstam's extraordinary memoirs of life with her husband, Hope Against Hope and Hope Abandoned, published in the 1970s, later helped to bring Mandelstam a worldwide audience.)

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His most recent book, The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America, was published in 2004. (October 2008)

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)

I.F. Stone was an American journalist, publisher of I.F. Stone's Weekly, and a regular contributor to the Review. For more about him please visit www.ifstone.org.

Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Oxford Book of Work. (April 2007)

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