Table of Contents

Volume 31, Number 5 · March 29, 1984

Stephen Jay Gould, Triumph of a Naturalist

A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock by Evelyn Fox Keller

Gordon S. Wood, History Lessons

The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W. Tuchman

Felix G. Rohatyn, American Roulette

Alfred Kazin, A Nymph of the New

Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World by Barbara Guest

Junius Secundus, The Sohoiad: Or, the Masque of Art: a Satire in Heroic Couplets Drawn from Life (poem)

Gore Vidal, In Love with the Adverb

James Joll, Slithering over the Brink

Russia and the Origins of the First World War by D.C.B. Lieven

France and the Origins of the First World War by John F.V. Keiger

Richard Ellmann, Oscar at Oxford

Arnold S. Relman, The Power of the Doctors

The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr

Eleanor Perenyi, The Bloom Is Off

Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning

Harold Nicolson: A Biography Vol. I, 1886–1929 Vol. II, 1930–1968 by James Lees-Milne

Edmund White, Nabokov's Passion

Lawrence Stone, The New Eighteenth Century

In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714–60 by Linda Colley

The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England by Neil McKendrick, by John Brewer, by J.H. Plumb

Industrialization before Industrialization: Rural Industry in the Genesis of Capitalism by Peter Kriedte, by Hans Medick, by Jürgen Schlumbohm

Augustan England: Professions, State and Society, 1680–1730 by Geoffrey Holmes

Bath 1680–1850: A Social History, or, a Valley of Pleasure, yet a Sink of Iniquity by R. S. Neale

The Impact of English Towns, 1700–1800 by Penelope J. Corfield

The Georgian Triumph, 1700–1830 by Michael Reed

The Experience of Labour in Eighteenth-Century English Industry by John Rule

Marriage Settlements, 1601–1740: The Adoption of the Strict Settlement by Lloyd Bonfield

Electoral Behavior in Unreformed England: Plumpers, Splitters, and Straights by John A. Phillips

Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Britain edited by Paul-Gabriel Boucé

Hogarth's Marriage À-la-mode by Robert L.S. Cowley

Strict Settlement: A Guide for Historians by Barbara English, by John Saville

English Society in the Eighteenth Century by Roy Porter

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Letters

Robert Giroux, Helen Vendler, Bishop's Prose Gift
Ira J. Sandperl, Violence in South Africa
Jonathan Schell, George W. Ball, Nuclear Readings
Alfred J. Ayer, Corrections
Robert D. Pepper, Another De Profundis!
Mark Kuchment, Making It in the USSR

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Contributors

Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)

Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

Felix Rohatyn has been a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman of the New York Municipal Authority, and US Ambassador to France. (November 2002)

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

Edmund White has written biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust, and Arthur Rimbaud. He has also written several novels, travel books, and a memoir. He teaches writing at Princeton and lives in New York City.

Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)

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