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Book reviewed in this article:The Hessian Mercenary State. Ideas, Institutions and Reforms under Frederick II 1760–1785. By Charles W. Ingrao.Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718–1775. By A. Roger Ekirch.Enlightened Absolutism (1760–1790). A Documentary Sourcebook. Edited by A. Lentin.Virtuous Discourse: Sensibility and Community in Late Eighteenth‐Century Scotland. By John Dwyer.The Making of History: A Study of the Literary Forgeries of James Macpherson and Thomas Chatterton in Relation to Eighteenth‐Century Ideas of History and Fiction. By Ian Haywood.The Scottish Enlightenment and the Theory of Spontaneous Order. By Ronald Hamowy, foreword by Ian Ross.The People's Armies. By Richard Cobb. translated by Marianne Elliott.England in the War of the Spanish Succession. A Study of the English View and Conduct of Grand Strategy 1701–1713. By John B. Hattendorf.Emergence of a Bureaucracy: the Florentine Patricians 1530–1790. By R. Burr Litchfield.The Printed Word and the Common Man: Popular Culture in Ulster 1700–1900. By J. R. R. Adams.Feminine and Opposition Journalism in Regime France. By Nina Ratner Gelbart.The Foundations of Modern Wales: Wales 1642–1780. By Geraint H. Jenkins.Spinners and Weavers of Auffay. By Gay L. Gullickson.The Gorgeous Mask: Dudlin 1700–1850. Edited by David Dickson.The Eighteenth‐Century Pleasure Gardens of Marylebone 1737–1777. By Mollie Sands.Scotland and England, 1286–1815. Edited by Roger A. Mason.Horace Walpole: The Critical Heritage. Edited by Peter Sabor.The Maritime Powers 1721–1740. A Study of Anglo‐Dutch Relations in the Age of Walpole. By Hugh Dunthorne.Revolution in Brussels 1787–1793. By Janet Polasky.The Recruiting Officer. By George Farquhar. Edited by Peter Dixon.Citizen of the World: Essays on Thomas Paine. Edited by Ian Dyck.Thomas Paine. By A. J. Ayer.The Collapse of the Anglo‐French Alliance 1727–1731. By Jeremy Black.The Political Philosophy of Edmund Burke. Edited by Iain Hampshire‐Monk.The Anarchist Writings of William Godwin. Edited by Peter Marshall.Political Ideas and Institutions in the Dutch Republic. By Herbert H. Rowen and Andrew Lossky.The Rise of English Nationalism: A Cultural History 1740–1830. By Gerald Newman.Nationalism in the Age of the French Revolution. Edited by Otto Dann and John Dinwiddy.Popular Politics and the American Revolution in England: Petitions, the Crown and Public Opinion. By James E. Bradley.Hume in der deutschen Aufklärung: Umrisse einer Rezeptionsgeschichte. By Günter Gawlick and Lothar Kreimendahl.The Philosopher as Writer: The Eighteenth Century. Edited by Robert Ginsberg.Closer to Home: Writers and Places in England, 1780–1830. By Roger Sale.The Making of English Reading Audiences 1790–1832. By Jon P. Klancher.Blake's Vision of the Poetry of Milton: Illustrations to Six Poems. By Bette Charlene Werner.From Fiction to the Novel. By Geoffrey Day.Jane Austen and the State. By Mary Evans.Mr Collins Considered: Approaches to Jane Austen. By Ivor Morris.Man and Nature: Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth‐Century Studies, Volume VI. Edited by Kenneth W. Graham and Neal Johnson.Studies in Eighteenth‐Century Culture, Volume 16. Edited for ASECS by 0 M Brack, Jr.Studies in the Eighteenth Century, 6. Edited by Colin Duckworth and Homer Le Grand.Satire and the Transformation of Genre. By Leon Guilhamet.Raillery and Rage: A Study of Eighteenth‐Century Satire. By David Nokes.Soame Jenyns. By Ronald Rompkey. Edited by B. H. Davis.Eliza Haywood. By Mary Anne Schofield. Edited by B. H. Davis.Restoration Comedy in Performance. By J. L. Styan.Restoration Comedy: Crises of Desire and Identity. By Edward Burns.An Island in thed Moon. By William Blake. Edited by Michael Phillips.Blake's Heroic Argument. By David Fuller.Crititcal Paths: Blake nad the Argument of method. By Dan Miller, Mark Bracher and Donald Ault.John Dryden and His World. By James Anderson Winn.Purity and Defilemetn in Gulliver's Travels. By Charles H. Hinnant.The Tatler. Edited by Donald F. Bond.Self‐Imitation in the Eighteenth‐Century Novel. By Marie‐Paule Laden.The Converse of the Pen: Acts of Intimacy in the Eighteenth‐Century Familiar Letter. By Bruce Redford.The Imaginative World of Alexander Pope. By Leopold Damrosch, Jr.The Attraction of the Contrary. Essays on the Literature of the French Enlightenment. By Walter E. Rex.Eavesdropping in Marivaux. By William H. Trapnell.Women of Sensibility or Reason. By P. L.‐M. Fein.Rousseau. Confessions. By Peter France.Die ‘Denkbücher’ Friedrich Heinrich Jacobis. By Peter‐Paul Schneider.Johann Gottfired Herder and seine zeitgenössischen Kritiker. By Hans‐Jürgen Gaycken.Sir David Wilkie of Scotland (1785–1841). By William J. Chiego, H. A. D. Miles, David Blayney Brown, Sir Ivor Batchelor, Lindsau Errington, Arthur S. Marks.The English Satirical Print 1660–1832. Michael Duffy.Essays on Handel and Italian Opera. Reinhard Strohm.North German Opera in the Age of Goethe. By Thomas Bauman.Music and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth and Early‐Nineteenth Centuries. Edited by Peter le Hurry, James Day.