Modern European Notes

Congratulations to our colleague, Jonathan Jarrett, whose"Should Historians Have to Engage the Public?" appeared initially at Cliopatria and is now featured on HNN's mainpage.

Peter Godfrey-Smith,"It Got Eaten," LRB, 8 July, reviews Jerry Fodor's and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini's What Darwin Got Wrong.

Frederic Raphael,"An Affair to Remember," Literary Review, July, reviews Ruth Harris's The Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France. Dennis Drabelle reviews it under the American market's title, Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century, for the Washington Post, 4 July.

Ian Thompson,"Diaries of Mussolini's mistress," TLS, 30 June, reviews Claretta Petacci's Mussolini Segreto: Diari, 1932–1938, ed. by Mauro Suttora.

Donald Morrison,"The General," FT, 26 June, and Sudhir Hazareesingh,"The Melancholic Prophet," Literary Review, July, reviews Jonathan Fenby's The General: Charles de Gaulle and the France he Saved.