Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Writings. By Benjamin Franklin The Papers of Benjamin Franklin. Vol. 25 October 1, 1777 through February 28, 1778. Edited by William B. willcox. Proceedings and Debates of the British Parliaments Respecting North America, 1754–1783: Volume III: 1768–1773; Volume IV: January‐May 1774. Edited by R. C. Simmons and P. D. G. Thomas. Bristol, Africa and the Eighteenth‐Century Slave Trade to America. Volume I. The Years of Expansion 1698–1729. Edited by David Richardson>. Wellington after Waterloo. By Neville Thompson. Revolution and Rebellion: State and Society in England in the Seventeeth and Eighteenth Centuries. By J. C. D. Clark. The Genesis of Industrial Capitalism: a Study of the West Riding Wool Textile Industry c. 1750–1850. By Pat Hudson. Patriarchs and Parasites. The Gentry of South‐West Wales in the Eighteenth Century. By David W. Howell. William Stukeley: an Eighteenth‐Century Antiquary. Revised and enlarged edition by Stuart Piggott. Women's Silence, Men's Violence. Sexual Assault in England 1770–1845. By Anna Clark. The English Press in the Eighteenth Century. By Jeremy Black. Economics of the British Booktrake 1605–1939. Edited by R. Myers and M. Harris. Bibliophily. Edited by R. Myers and M. Harris. Patronage and Politics in Scotland 1707–1832. By Ronald M. Sunter. Living in Atholl. By Leah Leneman. Man's Social Nature; a Topic of the Scottish Enlightenment in its Historical Setting. By Norbert Waszek. the Poor in Western Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. By Stuart Woolf. The french Parlements and the Crisis of the Old Regime . By Bailey Stone. The Hatters of Eighteenth‐Century France. By Michael Sonenscher The Making of an Insurrection: Parisian Sections and the Gironde. By Morris Slavin. Napoleon. The Myth of the Saviour. By Jean Tulard. Rousseau and the Republic of Virtue. The Language of Politics in the French Revolution. By Carol Blum. Russia Gathers her Jews: the Origins of the ‘Jewish Question’ in Russia, 1772–1825. By John Doyle Klier. Justus Moser and the German Enlightenment. By J. Knudsen. Kant and Job's Comforters. By A. L. Loades. The Extraterritorial Life Debate 1750–1900. The Idea of a Plurality of Worlds from Kant to Lovell. By Michael J. Crowe. Godwin's Political Justice. By Mark Philp. Pope's ‘Essay on Man’. By A. D. Nuttall. The Eighteenth‐Century Background, Studies in the Idea of Nature in the Thought of the Period. By Basil Willey. Augustan Studies: Essays in Honor of Irvin Ehrenpreis. Edited by Douglas Lane Patey and Timothy Keegan. Transparent Designs: Reading, Performance, and Form in the ‘Spectator’ Papers. By Michael G. Ketcham. Selected Poems. By Anne Finch. Selected Letters and Journals by Fanny Burney. Edited by Joyce Hemlow. Swift. By Nigel Wood. Henry Fielding. By Simon Varey. Henry Fielding and the Heliodoran Novel. By James J. Lynch. English Satire and the Satiric Tradition. Edited by Claude Rawson. La Réception de Laurence Sterne en Allemagne. By Alain Montandon. Reqiem pour Putopie?. Traité des causes physiques et morales du rire relativement à l'art de Pexciter. By Louis Poinsinet de Sivry. Edited by William Brooks. The Open Boundary of History and Fiction: A Critical Approach to the French Enlightenment. By Suzanne Gearhart. Les Tambours de Santerre: Essais sur quelques éclipses des Lumières au XVIIIe siècle. By Corrado Rosso. Love and Strategy in the Eighteenth‐Century French Novel. By Vera Lee. La Poupée. By Jean Galli de Bibiena. Lazzaro Spallanzani e la biologia del Settecento. Teorie, esperimenti, istituzioni scientifiche. A cura di Giuseppe Montalentie Paolo Rossi. Redazione di walter Bernardi e Antonello La Vergata. Die Leistung der Form: Lessings Dramen. By Peter Pütz. Friedrich Schilier and Swabian Pietism. By Arthur W. McCardle. Georg Büchner Jahrbuch 3/1983. Dasein und Realität. Theorie und Praxis des dramatischen Realismus bei J. M. R. Lenz. By Hans‐Günther Schwarz. Goethe's Faust. The German Tragedy. By Jane K. Brown. Schleiermacher und die Frührornantik. Eine literaturgeschichtliche Studie zum romantischen Religionsverständnis und Menschenbild am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts. By Kurt Nowak. Johann Elias Schlegels poetische Theorie im Rahmne der Tradition. By Gerlinde Bretzigheimer. The Journal of John Wesley. A Selection. Edited by Elisabeth Jay. religious Enthusiasm in the New World: Heresy to Revolution. By David S. Lovejoy. Chardin. By Philip Conisbee. Classical Music. A Concise History form Gluck to Beethoven. By Julian Rushton.