Sunday's Notes

Christopher Hawtree for the Independent, 25 June, and Robert Pinsky,"Start the Presses," NYT, 13 August, review Andrew Pettegree's The Book in the Renaissance.

Peter Coclanis,"Literature of the Heart," Books & Culture, July/August, recalls the most unusual commemoration of Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto, Czech composer-pianist Erwin Schulhoff's oratorio, Das Manifest.

John Lehman reviews William Leeman's The Long Road to Annapolis: The Founding of the Naval Academy and the Emerging American Republic for the Washington Post, 8 August.

Johann Hari,"The Two Churchills," NYT, 12 August, and Richard Shribman,"Churchill in focus," Boston Globe, 15 August, review Richard Toye's Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made. See also:"Stray Questions for Richard Toye," Paper Cuts, 13 August; and Richard Toye's Blog.

Finally, it's good to see that Sarah Werner has returned to her Cliopatria Award-winning blog, Wynken de Worde; and, though I'm late to the party, congratulations to Lucy Inglis and her Cliopatria Award-winning blog, Georgian London. Penguin will publish her Georgian London, the book, in the Spring of 2012.