Books and Bookmen, Volume 19, Number 9, June 1974

This issue includes a brief review by Trevor Allen of Burroughs' The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, at p.112.

Published in London, England by Hansom Books in June of 1974.

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 19740600BABO.19.9

Selected Contents:

• index
• letters
• Alan Forrest: "Bookmarks" (news)
• Auberon Waugh: "Cult of boredom" (combined review)
• Enoch Powell: "Empire builders" (review of Clive of India by Mark Bence-Jones and Lord William Bentinck: The Making of a Liberal Imperialist 1774-1839 by John Rosselli)
• Eric Partridge: "Haven for bookworms" (review of That Noble Cabinet by Edward Miller)
• A. L. Rowse: "The Shakespeare trade union" (review of The Riverside Shakespeare edited by G. Blakemore Evans)
• Elizabeth Longford: "A poet's blood?" (review of Byron's Daughter: a Biography of Elizabeth Medora Leigh by Catherine Turney)
• Michael Howard: "Behind the scenes" (review of A Day's March Nearer Home by Roger Parkinson)
• E. R. Braithwaite: "Dilemma of democracy" (review of The Politics of Change – A Jamaican Testament by Michael Manley)
• Gavin Lambert: "The star that failed" (review of Will There Really Be a Morning? by Frances Farmer)
• Cecil Roberts: "Where unity is gold" (review of The Rothschilds. A Family of Fortune by Virginia Cowles)
• James Brockway: "Old as the hills" (review of multiple works by Susan Hill)
• James Cameron: "Recording war" (review of I Know What I Liked by Vernon Bartlett and Diary of a War Artist by Edward Ardizzone)
• John Carter: "The Wise way with forgeries" (review of Thomas J. Wise in the Original Cloth by Wilfrid Partington)
• Frank Lipsius: "Intellectual streakers" (combined review)
• John Lenihan: "The radium woman" (essay)
• Jacquetta Hawkes: "Want not, lack not" (review of Stone Age Economics by Marshall Sahlins)
• Douglas Cooper: "Van Eyck to Poussin" (combined review)
• Oswald Mosley: "Europe-Africa: basic problems" (combined review)
• Nigel Nicolson: "Ruthless dictator, man of genius" (combined reviews on Stalin)
• Iain Moncreiffe: "A pride of Kings" (review of The Book of Kings: A Royal Genealogy by Arnold McNaughton)
• C. H. Rolph: "Rio Tinoto's mines" (review of Not on Queen Victoria's Birthday: The Story of the Rio Tinto Mines by David Avery)
• H. Montgomery Hyde: "Two Russian ways of life" (combined review)
• John Bryson: "In the steps of a hero" (review of From Bantry Bay to Leitrim by Peter Sommerville-Large)
• Tom Driberg: "The top of the tree" (review of The Rainbow Picnic: A Portrait of Iris Tree by Daphne Fielding)
• Richard Ingrams: "Dissection of humour" (review of An Anatomy of Laughter by Richard Boston and The Passing of the Third-Floor Buck by Keith Waterhouse)
• Christopher Sykes: "Boxing the compass diplomatically" (review of A Double Life by Sir William Hayter)
• Lord Boothby: "Honours for sale" (review of Maundy Gregory, Purveyor of Honours by Tom Cullen)
• Roger Poole: "Dead-end logic?" (review of The Central Questions of Philosophy by A. J. Ayer)
• Konstantin Bazarov: "Volatile man, serene poet" (review of Pushkin: a Biography by Henry Troyat)
• Lord Kinross: "Across the Sahara solo" (review of The Fearful Void by Geoffrey Moorhouse)
• Cecil King: "This is the house..." (review of The Book of Houses by Geoffrey Hindley)
• C. Northcote Parkinson: "Cordon bleu travel agent" (review of The Romantic Journey: The Story of Thomas Cook and Victorian Travel by Edmund Swinglehurst)
• Robert Nye: "Chatterton; the marvellous boy. 3" (essay)
• Michael Barber: "Let's hear it for the hawks" (review of Thirty-Four East by Alfred Coppel)
• Diana Mosley: "Evergreen Iris" (review of The Rainbow Picnic: A Portrait of Iris Tree by Daphne Fielding)
• John Calder: "Koestler's Achilles heel" (review of The Heel of Achilles by Arthur Koestler)
• Colin Wilson: "Sound of murder" (review of The Houndsditch Murders and the Siege of Sydney Street by Donald Rumbelow)
• Christopher Lee: "Forgotten explorers" (review of Search for the Maya by Victor Von Hagen)
• Frank Granville Barker: "Rhyme and punishment" (review of Swinburne: the Portrait of a Poet by Philip Henderson)
• Kay Dick: "The young Orwell" (review of Eric and Us: A Remembrance of George Orwell by Jacintha Buddicom and Letters to His Daughter by Kenneth Allsop)
• Duncan Fallowell: "Plotting the emotional curse" (review of The Sacred and Profane Love Machine by Iris Murdoch)
• Stanley Olson: "A lush talent?" (review of Malcolm Lowry. A Biography by Douglas Day)
• F. W. Skinnard: "Charismatic despot" (review of Napoleon by John Bowle)
• Edgar Lustgarten: "Right-wing in France" (review of Conservative Politics in France by Malcolm Anderson)
• Martin Esslin: "Worth the 'wait'": (review of Texts for Nothing by Samuel Beckett)
• Max Egremont: "Growing old disgracefully" (review of Ending Up by Kingsley Amis)
• E. L. Mascall: "God of contraries?" (review of Our Savage God by R. C. Zaehner)
• Dewi Morgan: "Reforming the church" (review of A Church by Daylight by Leslie Paul)
• Alan Hull Watson: "The unity of life" (combined review)
• John Lloyd: "Foundations of socialist thought" (review of Marx and Mill: Two Views of Social Harmony by Graeme Duncan)
• Peter Faulkner: "The human dilemma" (review of A Matter of People by Dom Morales and Which Tribe Do You Belong To? by Alberto Moravia)
• Victor Bonham-Carter: "Husbanding our resources" (review of Be Human or Die: A Study of Ecological Humanism by Robert Waller)
• Dillibe Onyeama: "Slaves to literature" (review of Black Voices edited by Abraham Chapman, and Black Viewpoints edited by Arthur Littleton and Mary Burger)
• Trevor Allen: "Recalling Russia" (review of Remember Russia by Elisaveta Fen)
• Robert Waller: "Plumbing the depths" (review of The Secrets of the Sea by Dorothy Clewes)
• smaller book reviews (including one by Trevor Allen on William S. Burroughs' The Wild Boys)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Cis Amaral
• Assistant Editor: Gareth Marshallsea