European History Notes
Anthony Kenny,"Maurice Bowra, the great Oxford gossip," TLS, 18 March, reviews Leslie Mitchell's Maurice Bowra: A Life.
Michelle Harvey reviews Jeffrey Lockwood's Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War for the THES, 19 March.
Robert Applebaum reviews a new edition of The Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi (1570): The Art and Craft of a Master Cook for the THES, 19 March.
James Fenton,"Pure Palladio," TLS, 18 March, reviews"Andrea Palladio: His Life and Legacy," an exhibit at London's Royal Academy of Arts, and Guido Beltramini and Howard Burns, Palladio.
Did you know that, until the mid-20th century, Jane Austen was generally regarded as an author for men and boys?
William Anthony Hay,"A Year of Living Dangerously," WSJ, 12 March, reviews Mike Rapport's 1848: Year of Revolution.
Matthew Pearl,"Bleak House: The 3-D Concert Experience," Slate, 17 March, finds in Charles Dickens's 1867 trip to America early evidence for modern celebrity culture – including a stalker.
Gary Saul Morson,"The lingering stench: airing Stalin's archives," New Criterion, March, reviews Jonathan Brent's Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia.