Friday's Notes

Mary Beard,"How the Greeks met their gods," TLS, 26 May, reviews Hugh Bowden's Mystery Cults in the Ancient World.

Lindsey Duguid,"Before London Went Metric," TLS, 26 May, reviews Jerry White's London: The story of a great city and Philip Davies's Lost London: 1870–1945.

Nicholas Guyatt,"Movement and Rootedness," The Nation, 26 May, reviews Ira Berlin's The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations and Steven Hahn's The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom.

Michael O'Donnell,"In With Both Feet," The Nation, 26 May, reviews Melvin Urofsky's Louis D. Brandeis: A Life.

Matthew Price,"Arms across the ocean," The National, 27 May, reviews Norman Stone's The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A Personal History of the Cold War.