More Modern Notes

Colin Woodward, "The History of Torture—Why We Can't Give It Up," Quarterly Journal of Military History, 9 August, recalls a time when torture had nearly disappeared.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft, "Moses Montefiore and the Jews of Europe," TLS, 10 August, reviews Abigail Green's Moses Montefiore: Jewish liberator, imperial hero. Lisa Hilton, "Samuel Palmer, the English Van Gogh," TLS, 10 August, reviews Rachel Campbell-Johnston's Mysterious Wisdom: The life and work of Samuel Palmer.

Tamar Jacoby, "The Power of the Powerless," The Book, 10 August, reviews Dorothee Schneider's Crossing Borders: Migration and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century United States

George Walden for the Guardian, 7 August, and Philippa Stockley for the Telegraph, 9 August, review Susie Harries's massive biography of the historian of British architecture, Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life.