Weak Endnotes

Carnivalesque LXII, an early modern edition of the festival, is up at Lucy Inglis's Georgian London.

Neely Tucker,"Library of Congress holds conference on origins of portolan charts," Washington Post, 22 May, reports on"Re-Examining the Portolan Chart: History, Navigation and Science." See also: John Hessler's"Bi-dimensional Regression Revisited: Studies in the geometry and form of the Medieval Portolan Chart," Warping History, 13 May.

Fionnùala Sinclair reviews Ian Davidson's Voltaire: A Life for the Guardian, 22 May.

Jaroslav Anders,"The Wizard," TNR, 22 May, reviews Roman Koropeckyj's Adam Mickiewicz: The Life of a Romantic.

Michael B. Sauter, Ashley C. Allen, and Douglas A. McIntyre,"The Net Worth of the U.S. Presidents: Washington to Obama," The Atlantic, 20 May, surveys the wealth of the Presidents.

David Greenberg and Tony Michels,"Elena Kagan Could Have Been a Superb Historian," Slate, 21 May, reads her senior thesis at Princeton:"To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933." From the Right, Ronald Radosh looks at the same evidence and reaches much the same conclusion.