Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Idea of Luxury: A Conceptual and Historical Investigation . By C. J. Berry. The Transformation of Rural Scotland: Social Change and the Agrarian Economy, 1660–1815 . By T. M. Devine. From Clanship to Crofters' War: The Social Transformation of the Scottish Highlands . By T. M. Devine. The People of Glengarry: Highlanders in Transition, 1745–1820 . By Marianne McLean. An Imperial State at War: Britain from 1689 to 1815 . Edited by Lawrence Stone. Political Alignment in the French National Assembly, 1789–1791 , By Harriet B. Applewhite. Kaunitz and Enlightened Absolutism, 1753–1780 . By Franz A. J. Szabo. The Crisis of Courtesy: Studies in the Conduct‐Book in Britain, 1600–1900 . Edited by Jacques Carré. The East India Company: A History . By Philip Lawson. Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment . By David Allan. The Aberdeen Enlightenment: The Arts Curriculum in the Eighteenth Century . By Paul Wood. Sociability and Society in Eighteenth‐Century Scotland . Edited by John Dwyer and Richard B. Sher. [First published in Eighteenth‐Century Lqe , 1991.] Love Customs in Eighteenth‐Century Spain . By Carmen Martín Gaite. Translated by Maria G. Tomsich. Defining the Common Good: Empire, Religion and Philosophy in Eighteenth‐Century Britain . By Peter N. Miller. A Bibliography of the Works of Richard Price . By D. O. Thomas, John Stephens and P. A. L. Jones. The Bent hams in Russia, 1780–1791 . By Ian R. Christie. The Patriot Opposition to Walpole: Politics, Poetry, and National Myth, 1725–1742 . By Christine Gerrard. The French Revolution and the Meaning of Citizenship . Edited by Renee Waldinger, Philip Dawson and her Woloch. Lawyers and Citizens: The Making of a Political Elite in Old Regime France . By David A. Bell. Reflections of Revolution; Images of Romanticism , Edited by Alison Yarrington and Kelvin Everest. History, Gender and Eighteenth‐Century Literature . Edited by Beth Fowkes Tobin. Companions Withour Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth‐Century British Women . By Betty Rizzo The Landed Estates of the Ester hazy Princes. Hungary during the Reforms of Maria Theresa and Joseph II . By Rebecca Gates‐Coon. Popular Politics and British Anti‐Slavery: The Mobilization of Public Opinion against the Slave Trade, 1787–1807 . By J. R. Old field. Memoirs on the Lute War in North America between France and England by Pierre Pouchot . Translated by Michael Cardy. Edited and annotated by Brian Leigh Dunnigan. ‘Das Clück der Bettler’. Justus Möser und die Welt der Armen. Mentalist und soziale Fvage im Fürstentum Osnabvüek zwischen Aufklärung und Säkulavisation . By Manfred Rudersdorf. The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire . By Nancy F. Koehr. Utopias of the British Enlightenment . By Gregory Claeys. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Hume: Political Essays . Edited by Knud Haakonssen. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Burke: Pre‐Revolutionary Writings . Edited by Ian Harris. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Governo e Constitution: la transformation del regime politico nelle teorie dell'età revolution‐aria francese . By Paolo Colombo. Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England . By John Cannon. Enlightenment and Conservatìsm in the Dutch Republic: The Political Thought of Elie Luzac (1721–1796 ). By Wyger R. E. Velema. Virtue Transformed: Political Argument in England, 1688–1740 . By Shelley Burtt. Virtue, Covruption, and Self‐Interest: Political Values in the Eighteenth Century . Edited by Richard K. Matthews. Congressional Dynamics: Structure, Co‐ordination and Choice in the First American Congress 1774–1789 . By Calvin Jillson and Rick K. Wilson. Stanford. Radical Sensibility: Literature and Ideas in the 1790s . By Chris Jones. The Captured Horizon, Heidegger and the ‘Nachtwachen von Bonaventura’ . By Kenneth M. Ralston. Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte, 69. Literature, Education, and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice 1780–1832 . By Alan Richardson. The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume . By Adam Potkay. The Story of the Voyage: Sea‐Narratives in Eighteenth‐Century England . By Philip Edwards. A New Species of Criticism: Eighteenth‐Century Discourse on the Novel . By Joseph F. Bartolomeo. Nature et libertéchez Diderot après l ‘Encyclopédie’ . By Gerhardt Stenger. Le Collège de Riom et I'enseignement oratorien en France au XVIIIe siècle . Textes réunis et présentés par Jean Ehrard. Vie privée du maréchal de Richelieu . Edited by Benedetta Craveri. Preface translated from the Italian by Pietro Mondolfo. La Ville s'étend sur tout le pays. Actes du colloque Rousseau, Neuchâtel et l'Europe . Edited by Frédéric Eigeldinger and Roland Kaehr. Blueprint: A Study of Divert and the ‘Encyclopédie’ Plates . By Stephen Werner. Corpus des notes marginales de Voltaire. Volume 5: L‐M . Edited by T. Voronova et al . Ecraser I'Infâme. Voltaire en son temps , 4. Edited by René Pomeau with the participation of Jean Balcou, Marie‐Hélène Cotoni, Jean Dagen, Sylvain Menant and Charles Porset. On a voulu l'enterrer. Voltaire en son temps . 5. Edited by Rene Pomeau with the participation of André Billaz, Marie‐Hélène Cotoni, Robert Granderoute, Henri Lagrave, André Magnan and Sylvain Menant. Volumes 4 and 5 are now available as the second part of the new two‐volume edition of Voltaire en son temps , edited by Rene Pomeau The Discourse of Enlightenment in Eighteenth‐Century France . By Daniel Brewer. Preserving the Monarchy. The Comte de Vergennes, 1774–1787 . By Munro Price. The Treasure Chest . By Johann Peter Hebel. Introduced and translated by John Hibberd. German Romantic Literary Theory . By Ernst Behler. Translating the Enlightenment: Scottish Civic Discourse in Eighteenth‐Century Germany . By Fania Oz‐Salzberger. Since the appearance of Transluting the Enlightenment , an edition of Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society . edited by Fania Oz‐Salzberger Interpreting Nature. The Science of Living Form from Linnaeus to Kant . By James L. Larson. The Bevlin Jewish Community: Enlightenment, Family, and Crisis, 1770–1830 , By Steven M. Lowenstein. Spiritual Pilgrim: A Reassessment of the Life of the Countess of Huntingdon . By Edwin Welch. Thomas Paine and the Religion of Nature . By Jack Fruchtman, Jr. Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Subject Paintings . By Martin Postle. Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century . Edited by Veronica Kelly and Dorothea E. von Mucke. Eighteenth‐Century Aesthetics and the Reconstruction of Art . Edited by Paul Mattick jnr. Prospects, Thresholds, Interiors: Watercolors from the National Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum . By Lewis Johnson. Music and the French Enlightenment: Reconstruction of a Dialogue, 1750–1764 . By Cynthia Verba. Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth‐Century London: vol. I: The King's Theatre, Haymarket, 1778–1791 . By Curtis Price, Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume.