Modern European Notes

Christopher Benfey,"Seven Mysteries of China," Slate, 2 April, inquires into the appeal and includes lovely illustrations of Meissen porcelain.

Ferdinand Mount,"Eighteenth-century bling," TLS, 2 April, reviews John Styles's The Dress of the People: Everyday fashion in eighteenth-century England.

Adam Gopnik,"Headless Horseman," New Yorker, 5 June, reviews David Andress's The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France and Ruth Scurr's Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution. Hat tip.

John Merriman,"The Little Man Who Started These Great Wars," NY Sun, 26 March, reviews Philip Dwyer's Napoleon: The Path to Power, 1769–1799.

peacay,"Picturing Portuguese People," BibliOdyssey, 2 April, features delightful portraits from a Picturesque Review of the Costume of the Portuguese (ca 1836).

Finally, Jon Schneider,"Ezra Pound: Foreign Correspondent," VQR, Spring, looks at the poet's late and brief service as a foreign correspondent for James J. Kilpatrick's Richmond News-Leader. Hat tip.