Table of Contents
Volume 37, Number 2 · February 15, 1990
Michael Ignatieff, The Old Country 
Danube by Claudio Magris, translated by Patrick Creagh
The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography by Gregor von Rezzori, translated by H. F. Broch de Rothermann
Ernst Gombrich, The Edge of Delusion
The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response by David Freedberg
Noel Annan, The True Amateur
Friends of Promise: Cyril Connolly and the World of Horizon by Michael Shelden
John Russell, High Spirits
To the Memory of Childhood by Lydia Chukovskaya, translated by Eliza Kellogg Klose
Entretiens avec Anna Akhmatova by Lydia Tchoukovskaïa
Timothy Garton Ash, Eastern Europe: The Year of Truth
Vaclav Havel, From a New Year's Day Speech
Richard Dorment, Working Girl
Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun translated by Lionel Strachey, with an introduction by John Russell
The Memoirs of Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun translated by Siân Evans
David Cannadine, Never-Never Land
Victorian Things by Asa Briggs
The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830–1900 by F.M.L. Thompson
The Rise of Professional Society: Britain since 1880 by Harold Perkin
Robert L. Heilbroner, Seize the Day
Michael Wood, Bleistein and Mr. Eliot
T.S. Eliot and Prejudice by Christopher Ricks
Edward Rothstein, Look Homeward, Angel
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode by Harold Brodkey
Peter Singer, Salt of the Earth
The Savour of Salt: A Henry Salt Anthology edited by George Hendrick, edited by Willene Hendrick
James Harvey, Quasimodo in America
Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor by Simon Callow
Conor Cruise O'Brien, The Decline and Fall of the French Revolution
A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution edited by François Furet, by Mona Ozouf, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
Murray Kempton, The Party of Envy
Letters
Charles Joyner, C. Vann Woodward, Speaking Southern
Charles Bryan, E.A.J. Honigmann, Whose Shakespeare?
Barbara Sykes, Can South Africa Change?
Walter Tonetto, Poems of Tiananmen Square
Contributors
Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)
Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. (April 2008)
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.)