Additionally Noted

Scott McLemee,"Amazing Disgrace," IHE, 19 May, finds the promotion of Michael Bellesiles's new book remarkably inappropriate. I'd argue that some historians (Jon Wiener, Historiann, and others) never acknowledged the gravity of Bellesiles's offenses. It's worth noting that New Press is the publisher of both Wiener's Historians in Trouble and Bellesiles's 1877. If you think Wiener's argument is credible, you might promote Bellesiles's new book as New Press has. Wiener and others need to explain to us why such distinguished historians as Stanley Katz, Hannah Gray, and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich would compromise their professional integrity so readily and become the willing tools of reactionary forces, just to satisfy Bellesiles's critics.

Rosemary Hill,"Welcome to Strawberry Hill," TLS, 19 May, reviews Horace Walpole's A Description of the Villa at Strawberry Hill, Michael Snodin, ed., Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill, and"Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill," an exhibit at London's Victoria and Albert Museum.

Elizabeth Lowry,"Kipling beyond India," TLS, 19 May, reviews Rudyard Kipling's Kipling Abroad: Traffics and discoveries from Burma to Brazil.

Simon Akam,"Istanbul, Constantinople," The Book, 20 May, reviews Amy Mills's Streets of Memory: Landscape, Tolerance, and National Identity in Istanbul.

Michael Dirda reviews Selina Hastings's The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham for the Washington Post, 20 May.