CON TE N T S
MATT RIDLEY , who writes regularly in the Daily Telegraph on co untry matters, published The Origins of Virtue to great acclaim las t November. H e is working on a book about Disease as part of a W eidenfeld se ri es to greet the Mille nnium.
BRENDA M ADDOX is working away o n a new book about W B Y eats for Macmillan , to add to h e r acclaimed biographie s of Nora J oyce, and D H Lawrence , winn er of the Whitbread Biogra phy Award.
TiM OTHY CLIFFORD, who is Director of the National Gallery for Scotland, is working on a m ajor proj ec t to exam ine the relationship betv.reen th e fin e an d appli ed arts . M eanwhile, he plans to open th e new Paolozzi Gallery in Edinburgh 's Dean next year.
CHARLES LY SAG HT, a barriste r Li ving in Dublin , is the author of Brwda11 Bra che11 (Ali e n La n e 1979), a biography of the Iri sh journali st w ho became a Conservative polit i c i a n and wartime information minister. H e is at prese nt employed on a book about th e administ ration s ofj ustice in Ireland.
G ILL H ORN BY, who co ntinues to review fiction for the Tim es, h as produ ce d a baby daughter, Matilda. Congratulations to he r and h er husband, the occasional Li tera ry R ev iew contr ibu tor, Robert H arri s.
H UG H MASS! GBERD, w ho has re tired from reg ular journalism, is currently w riting an autobiographical stud y of hero-worship and daydream s. Hi s third co ll ect ion of T eleg raph obituari es comes o ut from M acmillan 111 the autumn .
FROM THE PULPIT
1 AUBERON W AUGH
BAD FAMILIES
4 GiLL Hot~Y The Architect of Desire·: Beauty and Danger in the
Stanford White Family Suzannah Lessa rd 5 ANTHONY CLARE Victims of Memory Mark Pendergrast 6 SARAH A SMITH Falling Leaves: The Tme Story of an Unwm1ted
Chinese Da~~ghter Adeline Yen M ah
COUNTRY MATTERS 7 M ATT RIDLEY The Killing of th e Countryside Graham Harvey
8 H UGH MA SINGBERD The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home
P e t er Mandler 10 J W M THOMPSON A Vision of the Country AD 209 7 (Ed )
D avid Fleming
IRELAND
BIOGRAPHY
11 B RENDA MADDOX W B Yeats: A Life, Volume I: The Apprentice
Mage 1865-1914 R F Foster 12 CHARLES LYSAGHT Goodbye to Catholic Ireland Mary K enny 13 NI HOLAS R OYLE Waiting for the Healer E amonn Sweeney
14 j ONATHAN KEATES A lbert: Uncrowned Kir1g Stanley Weintraub 16 T IM A HLEY Enchantress : Marthe Bibesco and H er World
C hristi n e Sutherland 17 J OHN GRIBBIN Hux ley: Evolution's H igh Pries t Adrian Desmond 18 PETER ] ONES H orace: A Life Pe te r Levi 19 PHI LIP 0AKES Savage Art: A Biography of)im Thompson
Rob e rt Polito 20 FRANK M CLYNN My Years tvith A prr Satyajit Ray
SUBSCRIPTION FORM 21
FIRST NOVELS
TREACHERY
ART
22 CLAUDIA FITZ H ERBERT One Day as a Tiger Anne H averty 23 A D REID Tir e Luxury of Exile Loui s Buss 24 KEVI N B URNS When Memory Dies A Sivanandan
25 A NDREW LYCETT CMifess ions of a Spy: The R ea l Story of Aldriclr
A rn es Pete Ea rl ey
26 P ERCY CR.ADOCK Bea ting R etreat : Hong Kong Under th e Last
Covemor Tim H eald
28 WILLIAM M OSTYN-0WEN Lorenzo Latto Pe ter Humfrey 29 j ULI AN STALLABRASS Drrclramp: A Biography Calvin Tomkins 30 TIMOTHY CUFFORD Irrt rod uction to Italian Sculpture (3 vols)
John Pope-Hennessy 32 R ALPH BERRv Venice and Antiquit y: Th e Venetian Sense of the
Pas t P atri c ia Fortin.i Brown
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Iss ue no. 225
LITERARY REVIEW March 1997
