Still Living: Belfast, 1974 Patrick Grant 161
Chaplin: Charles and Charlie Michael Roemer 168
Dickens, Godard, and the Film Today Graham Petrie 185
Visconti and Renoir: Shadowplay Epi Wiese 202
On Akira Kurosawa Barbara Wolf 218
The National Institute of Education Chester E. Finn, Jr. 227
Carpet. A Story Robert L. Chibka 244
Three Poems David Slavitt 249
The Generation Before. Verse Robert Pinsky 252
The Horses. Verse F. D. Reeve 253
New Books in Review:
Urban Design Laurence B. Holland 255
Committing Critical Choices Leo Brandy 260
Flaubert, Eliot, and Others Gordon S. Haight 266
Starry Wheels and Living Forms Dewey R. Faulkner 271
William Morris Glass G. L. Mersey 275
Graphic Satire Frederick W. Hilles 279
New Records in Review B. H. Haggin 282
Science in Review: The Nation States of Trees Paul Colinvaux 286
Letters and Comment: Was Socrates as Reasonable as Professor Vlastos? J. Dybikowski 293
Signs of the Times: Semiotics 1974 Lowry Nelson, Jr. 296
Reader’s Guide vi-xviii
Contributors xix