Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Polite landscapes: gardens and society in eighteenth‐century England . By Tom Wilkinson. Johnson and Boswell: the transit of Caledonia . By Pat Rogers. Richard Pococke's Irish tours . Edited by John McVeagh. Louis XV and the parlement of Paris 1717–1755 . By John Rogister. Studies presented to the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions, LXXIV. ‘Das Biβchen Gärtnerey’: Untersuchungen zur Garten‐ irnd Naturmotivik bei Christoph Martin Wieland . By Jens Voβ. Subversive words: public: opinion in eighleenth‐century France . By Arlette Farge. Translated by Rosemary Morris. The Hébertistes to the guillotine: anatomy of a ‘conspiracy’ in revolutionary France By Morris Slavin. The Making of man‐midwifery: childbirth in England 1660–1770 . By Adrian Wilson. The European nobilities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centurise . Edited by H. M. Scott. Rediscovering antiquity: Karl Weber and the excavation of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabiar . By Christopher Charles Parslow. A union for Empire: political thought and the union of 1707 . Edited by John Robertson. The Politics of the people in eighteenth‐century Britain . By H. T. Dickinson. French politics 1774–1789 from the accessioii of Louis XVI to the fall of the Bastille . By John Hardman. British ‘non‐élite’ MPs 1715–1820 . By Ian R. Christie. Voting records of tlie British House of Commons 1761–1820 . Edited by Donald E. Ginter. Voltaire: political writings . Edited and translated by David Williams. Cambridge texts in the history of political thought. The One possible basis for a demonstration of the existence of God . By Immanuel Kant. Translated and introduced by Gordon Treash. The Philosophy of Restif de La Bretonne . By David Coward. Parité de la vie et de la mort. La Réponse du médecin Gaultier . Textes rassemblés. présentés et commentés par Olivier Bloch. Impure reason: dialectic of Enlightenment in Germany . Edited by W. Daniel Wilson and Robert C. Holub. The Autocritique of Enlightenment: Rousseau and the philosophes . By Mark Hulliung. The Rise of supernatural fiction, 1762–1800 . By E. J. Clery. Sade and the narrative of transgression . Edited by David B. Allison, Mark S. Roberts and Allen S. Weiss. The Episodes of Vathek By William Heckford. Translated by Sir Frank Marzials. Sawtry. Re‐visioning Romanticism: British women writers 1776–1837 . Edited by Carol Shiner Wilson and Joel Haefner. Marg Wollstonecraft and the language of sensibility . By Syndy McMillen Conger. Nobody's story: the vanisging acts of women writers in the marketplace 1670–1820 . By Catherine Gallagher. Jonathan's travels: Swift and Ireland . By Joseph McMinn. At the limits of Romanticism: essays in cultural, feminist, and materialist criticism Edited by Mary A. Favret and Nicola J. Watson. Clarissa's plots , By Lois E. Bueler. Natural masques: gender and identity in Fielding's plays and nocels . By Jill Campbell. The Life of Harriot Stuart, written by herself . By Charlotte Lennox. Edited by Susan Kubica Howard. Ann Randcliffe: the great enchantress . By Robert Miles. Gothic bodies: the politics of pain in Romantic fiction . By Steven Bruhm. Milton, the Metaphysicals, and Romanticism, and Romanticism . Edited by Lisa Low and Anthony John Harding. Mansfield Park: Don Juan: The Prelude , Edited by Nigel Wood. Theory in practice series. Jane Austen's letters . Third editon. Collected and edited by Deirdre Le Faye. Rural life in eighteenth‐century English poetry . By John Goodridge. The Independent spirit: John Clare and the self‐taught tradition . Edited by John Good‐ridge. Gothick origins and innovations . Edited by Allan Lloyd Smith and Victor Sage. Costerus new series 91. Swift's parody . By Robert Phiddian. Cambridge studies in eighteenth‐century English literature and thought. 26. Jonathan Swift and the burden of the future . By Alan D. Chalmers. Utopian imagination and eighteenth‐century fiction . By Christine Rees. The Secular city: studies in the Enlightenment jpresented to Haydn Mason. Edited by T. D. Hemming. E. Freeman and D. Meakin. The Abbé Prevost's first‐person narrators . By R. A. Francis. Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century, 306. Prévost: Manon Lescaut By R. A. Francis. Critical guides to French texts, 100. Les Œuvres complétes de Voltaire / The Complete works of Voltaire, Volumes 35–36: Dictionnaire philosophique , sous la direction de Christiane Mervaud, Edition critique par Andrew Brown, Marie‐Hélène Cotoni. Jacqueline Hellegouarc'h. Ulla Kölving. Christiane Mervaud, Jeanne R. Monty, José‐Michel Moureaux, Bertram Eugene Schwarzbach. Jeroom Vercruysse et Roland Virolle. Le Dictionnnaire philosophique de Voltaire, By Christiane Mervaud. Livre dangereux Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique , By Andrew Brown, with the collaboration of J. Patrick Lee, Nicholas Cronk and Ulla Kölving. A bibliography of the original editions and catalogue of an exhibition held in Worcester College Library to celebrate the trecentenary of Voltaire's birth. Discours de I'empereur Julien contre les chrétiens . Edition critique avec une introduction et un commentaire par J.‐M. Moureaux. Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century. Pre‐Romantic attitudes to landscape in the writings os Friedrich Schiller. By Sheila Margaret Benn. Quellen und Forschungen zur Sprach‐ und Kulturgeschichte der germanischen Völker. Tragödie der Aufkläruing . By Peter‐André Alt. IJni‐Taschenbücher 1781. Gerichtsverfahern. Ein dramaturgisches Modell in Trauerspielen der Frühaufklärung By Thomas Wirtz. Epistemata: Würzburger Wissenschaftliche Schriften. Reihe Literatur‐wissenschaft.