Things Noted Here and There

Carnivals: Andy Walpole at Future/Retro will host History Carnival LXVII on Friday 1 August. Send nominations of July's best in history blogging to him at editor*at*historynexus*dot* net or use the form. Margaret at The Earthly Paradise has launched an Art History Carnival. The first edition of it is here. A second edition goes up on Friday 1 August. Use the form to nominate the best in art history blogging since 1 May. Another carnival hosted by a single blog is the Indian History Carnival. varnam hosts it on the 15th of each month. Indian History Carnival VII is its most recent edition.

Reviews:
Graham Robb reviews Robert Gildea's Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 for the London Times, 27 July.

Charles McGrath,"House Proud," NYT, 27 July, reviews Miranda Seymour's Thrumpton Hall: A Memoir of Life in My Father's House. What's a girl to do when her father's probably gay and clearly loves his house more than his family?

William Davies King, a theater prof at UC, Santa Barbara, loves the things you throw away, like his collection of 30 years of Cheerio's boxes. Reviewing his memoir, Collections of Nothing, Henry Alford,"The Curator," NYT, 27 July, says:"I wanted, by turns, to breast-feed and strangle him." Would I kid you about that?

Farewells:
Finally, farewell to Michael Mahoney, Princeton's historian of science, and Richard C. Wade, a distinguished historian of urban America.