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Book reviewed in this article: Bibliographie des (Euvres de Denis Diderot 1739–1900. By David Adams. Réflexion utopique et pratique romanesque au siècle des lumières: Prévost, Rousseau, Sade. By Guillaume Ansart. Situation 53. Memory and Desire: Rétif de la Bretonne, Autobiography and Utopia. By Peter Wagstaff. Faux titre 115. Le Chevalier Bayard. By Jacques Autreau. Liverpool Online Series: Critical Editions of French Texts 3. Edited by Richard Waller. Plots of Enlightenment: Education and the Novel in Eighteenth‐Century England. By Richard A. Barney. Hogarth: Representing Nature's Machines. Edited by David Bindman, Frédéric Ogée and Peter Wagner. The Prime Minister of Taste: a Portrait of Horace Walpole. By Morris Brownell. Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, Britain 1660–1800. By Philip Carter. French Opera 1730–1830: Meaning and Media. By David Charlton. Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS634. Michel‐Jean Sedaine (1719–1797): Theatre, Opera and Art. Edited by David Charlton and Mark Ledbury. Religions en transition dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle. Edited by Louis Châtellier. SVEC 2000:02. Samuel Johnson in Historical Context. Edited by Jonathan Clark and Howard Erskine‐Hill. Jane Austen: The Parson's Daughter. By Irene Collins. Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees. Edited by Deidre Lynch. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics and Enquiries in the Early Modern Era, vol. 4. Edited by Kevin L. Cope. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics and Enquiries in the Early Modern Era, vol. 5. Edited by Kevin L. Cope. Sublime Disorder: Physical Monstrosity in Diderot's Universe. By Andrew Curran. SVEC 2001:01. John Soane: An Accidental Romantic. By Gillian Darley. Appearing to Diminish: Female Development and the British Bildungs‐roman, 1750–1850. By Lorna Ellis. L'Annonce et la nouvelle. La presse d'information en France sous I'Ancien Régime (1630–1789), By Gilles Feyel. The Politics of Trade: The Overseas Merchant in State and Society 1660–1720. By Perry Gauci. Des beautés plus hardies… Le théâtre dans la France de I'Ancien Régime (1750–1789), By François Genton. The Nation, The Law and the King, Reform Politics in England, 1789–1799. By Jenny Graham. Lanham. Hogarth. By Mark Hallett. Politics and the Nation: Britain in the Mid‐Eighteenth Century. By Bob Harris. Reconstituting the Body Politic: Enlightenment, Public Culture and the Invention of Aesthetic Autonomy. By Jonathan M. Hess. The Impact of Italy: The Grand Tour and Beyond. Edited by Clare Hornsby. Those Delightful Regions of the Imagination: Essays on George Romney. Edited by Alex Kidson. Saint‐Simon and the Court of Louis XIV. By Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, with the collaboration of Franqois Fitou. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer.Leonhard Horowsku Institute fur Geschichtswissenschaft, Technische Universities Berlin Boswell un libertine mdancolique. Sa vie, ses voyages, ses amours et ses opinions. By Maurice Levy. Rhetoric and Natural History: Buffon in Polemical and Literary Context. By Jeff Loveland. SVEC 2001:03. Public Architecture in Ireland 1680–1760. By Edward McParland. The Moravian Church and the Missionary Awakening in England 1760–1800. By J. C. S. Mason. Enlightenment Geography: The Political Languages of British Geography, 1650–1850. By Robert Mayhew. Studies in Modern History.The Clothes That Wear Us: Essays on Dressing and Transgressing in Eighteenth‐Century Culture. Edited by Jessica Munns and Penny Richards. Empire on the English Stage, 1660–1714. By Bridget Orr. Starting Lines in Scottish, Irish, and English Poetry from Burns to Haney. By Fiona Stafford. John Berwick, Engraver on Wood, 1760–1795; an appreciation of his life together with an annotated catalogue of his illustrations and designs. By Nigel Tatters field. Painting the Cannon's Roar: Music, the Visual Arts, and the Rise of an Attentive Public in the Age of Haydn, c.1750 to c.1810. By Thomas Tolley. Universal Right. By Giambattista Vico. Trans. and ed. by Giorgio Pinton and Margaret Diehl. Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment. By Elizabeth Susan Wahl.