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Book reviewed in this article: Death and the Enlightenment. Changing Attitudes to Death among Christians and Unbelievers in Eighteenth‐Century France. By John McManners. Etudes sur le XVIIIe siècle. Volume 8. Edited by Roland Mortier and Hervé Hasquin. The Great Map of Mankind: British Perceptions of the World in the Age of Enlightenment. By P. J. Marshall and Glyndwr Williams. The Human Face of God. William Blake and the Book of Job. By Kathleen Raine, The Letters of Erasmus Darwin. Edited by Desmond King‐Hele. The Plays of David Garrick. Edited by Harry William Pedicord and Frederick Louis Bergmann. Homer's Original Genius. Eighteenth‐Century Notions of the Greek Epic. (1688–1798). By Kirsti Simonsuuri. Evelina by Fanny Burney. Edited with an introduction by Edward A. Bloom with the assistance of Lillian D. Bloom. Feminism in Eighteenth‐Century England. By Katharine M. Rogers Philosophy and Ideology in Hume's Political Thought. By David Miller. Berkeley. By J. O. Urmson. Berkeley. By G. J. Warnock. Dean Tucker: Eighteenth‐Century Economic and Political Thought. By George Shelton. The Dynamics of Change: The Crisis of the 1750s and English Party Systems, By J. C. D. Clark. The Emergence of the British Two‐Party System 1760–1832. By Frank O'Gorman. In Defiance of Oligarchy. The Tory Party 1714–60. By Linda Colley. Augustan England: Professions, State and Society 1680–1730. By Geoffrey Holmes. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. By Roy Porter. The Impact of English Towns, 1700–1800. By P. J. Corfield. European Textile Printers in the Eighteenth Century: A Study of Peel and Oberkampf. By S. D. Chapman and S. Chassagne. The British Soldier in America. By Sylvia Frey. Slavery, War and Revolution: The British Occupation of Saint Domingue 1793–1798. By David Geggus. Human Cargoes: The British Slave Trade to Spanish America, 1700–1739. By Colin A. Palmer. A Woman to Deliver her People. Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism in an Era of Revolution. By James K. Hopkins. Origins of the ‘Forty‐Five’. By Walter Biggar Blaikie. The French Revolution: the Fall of the Ancien Régime to the Thermidorian Reaction, 1785–1795. By John Hardman, The Jacobin Clubs in the French Revolution. The First Years. By Michael L. Kennedy. Napoleon's Continental Blockade. The Case of Alsace. By Geoffrey Ellis. The Philosophes and Post‐Revolutionary France. By John Lough. The Empire Unpossess'd. An Essay upon Gibbon's Decline and Fall. By Lionel Gossman Voyage autour du monde par la frégate ‘La Boudeuse’ et la flûte ‘L'Etoile’ en 1766, 1767, 2768 et 1769. By Louis Antoine de Bougainville. Word and Image: French Painting of the Ancien Régime. By Norman Bryson Diderot and the ‘Grand Goût’: The Prestige of History Painting in the Eighteenth Century (The Zaharoff Lecture for 1981–82). By Roland Mortier Rousseau after Two Hundred Years: Proceedings of the Cambridge Bicentennial Colloquium. Edited by R. A. Leigh. A Bibliography of Eighteenth‐Century Legal Literature. By J. N. Adams and G. Averley with assistance from F. J. G. Robinson. Beförderer der Aufklärung in Mittel‐ und Osteuropa: Freimaurer, Gesellschaften, Clubs. Herausgegeben von Éva H. Balázs Reisen und Reisebeschreibungen im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert als Quellen der Kulturbeziehungsforschung. Herausgegeben von B. I. Krasnobaev Discourses on Art. By Sir Joshua Reynolds. Edited by Robert R. Wark.