...Elise Goodman Mary Tavener Holmes, Nicolas Lancret: Dance before a Fountain . Getty Museum Studies on Art (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006). Pp. 129. 93 ills. $19.50 paper. ISBN 0-89236-832-2 Melissa Hyde, Making Up the Rococo: François Boucher and His Critics (Los Angeles...

..., however, tend some- what to qualify this picture, confirming the prominence of the professionals who, in Clive Holmes’s words, “acted as ‘brokers,’ channeling the products of the national culture into the localities.”8 Lawyers and clergy, the lat- ter constituting, by Rosemary Sweet’s calculation...

....50 As Geoffrey Holmes has observed of the Whigs, “The familiar old texted picture of a party of aristocrats, merchants, and Dissenters fails to stand up to even the most superficial examination.”51 Moreover, not all Tory writers spouted the superficial claim that land and the so-called...

... two recent books on the subject, Geoffrey Holmes also corrobo- rates Cannon’s view of the period as an aristocratic century, and Clark’s vision of a society the cultural norms of which were set by the gentry and peerage and which trickled down to the middling orders. While Holmes observes...

... and Property: Political Ideology in Eighteenth- Century Britain (N. Y.: Holmes and Meier, 1977), esp. chap. 3, “Court and Country.” 7. Life of Johnson, ed. R.W. Chapman, intro. Pat Rogers (Oxford & N. Y.: Oxford Univ., 1980), p. 119. 8. See, e.g...

..., William, ed. The Musician as Entrepreneur, 1700 –1914: Managers, Charlatans, and Idealists (Bloomington: Indiana Univ., 2005). Pp. 269. $44.95. ISBN 0-253-34456-5 Wenham, Sheena. A More Enterprising Spirit: The Parish and People of Holm in 18th Century Orkney (Kirkwall: Bellavista, 2001...

..., 2013). Pp. ix + 373. 12 ills. $130 Appleby, John C. Women and English Piracy, 1540–1720: Partners and Victims of Crime (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2013). Pp. xv + 264. 6 maps. $95 Arbuckle, James. Selected Works, ed. Richard Holmes (Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ., 2014). Pp. xl + 173. $70...

... of sumptuary law in England and discusses how economic protectionism functioned as a form of sumptuary legislation in the late seventeenth century (295 – 324, and 357 – 78). For the seventeenth-century interest in sumptuary law, see also Aileen Ribeiro, Dress and Morality (New York: Holmes and Meier...

... . The printed date of 1 April 1785 is a joke about aeronautical folly; the actual ascent is probably Lunardi’s embarrassingly short flight of 13 May 1785. 17. For a colorful account of this incident-fi lled voyage, see Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered...

... of Samuel Pepys, ed. Robert Latham and William Matthews, 11 vols. (Berkeley: Univ. of California, 1970 – 84), 4:130. 15. Diana de Marly, Fashion for Men: An Illustrated History (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1986), 63. 16. Elizabeth Wilson, Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity (New York...

... discursive form for her social critique” (138). In contrast, Marilyn Butler, in “The Woman at the Window: Ann Radcliffe in the Novels of Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen,” Gender and Literary Voice , ed. Janet Todd (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1980), 128–48, argues that although Wollstonecraft...

.... 10–16. See also Buck, “Pocket Guides to Fashion: Ladies’ Pocket Books Published in England 1760–1830,” Costume 18 (1984): 35–58, and Dress in Eighteenth-Century England (N.Y.: Holmes & Meier, 1979). 9. Now a laborer, her father, formerly a schoolmaster...

... of George Cheyne (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma, 2000). 31.  The earliest surviving manuscript letter by Richardson, written to his second wife, Elizabeth Leake Richardson, on their wedding day, 3 February 1733, was offered for sale by David J. Holmes, Philadelphia, in 1986, but its present location...

... of Chatterton, Blake, and Wilde; Richard Holmes’ various cunning biographies (especially Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage); and, most recently, A. S. Byatt’s Biographer’s Tale, which examines the life of Linnaeus as refracted through later biographers in search of Linnaeus—in other...

... paper. ISBN 90-420-1258-7 Hogwood, Christopher, ed. The Keyboard in Baroque Europe. Musical Performance and Reception (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2003). Pp. 263. $75. ISBN 0-521-81055-8 Holmes, Frederick. The Sickly Stuarts: The Medical Downfall of a Dynasty (Stroud...

...-4 Stein, Perrin, and Mary Tavener Holmes. Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in New York Collections (N.Y.: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999). Pp. xi + 241. 129 b&w ills., 100 color. $65. ISBN 0-87099-892-7 Sugden, John. Blue Jacket: Warrior...

... Books Received 1 3 5 Hogwood, Christopher, ed. The Keyboard in Baroque Europe. Musical Performance and Reception (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2003). Pp. 263. $75. ISBN 0-52-8055-8 Holmes, Frederick. The Sickly Stuarts: The Medical Downfall of a Dynasty (Stroud...

... for funding provided by the Harold Wright and the Sarah and William Holmes Scholarships; the Francis Haskell Memorial Fund; the Macgeorge Travelling Scholarship; and a Paul Mellon Research Support Grant. I wish to thank Professor Deirdre Coleman and Professor Anne Dunlop (both of the University of Melbourne...

...-Century England, ed. John Woodward and David Richards (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1977), 167–69. 6.  See, for example, Pamela Bright’s treatment of William Babington in Dr. Richard Bright, 1789–1858 (London: Bodley Head, 1983); Chester Bradley and Miriam Bradley, “Craven and O’Meara: Medical...

... sullen hue, The which full fast unto the woodlande drewe, Hiltring attenes [hiding at once] the sunnis fetive [beauteous] face compels the pilgrim to shelter beneathe an holme (4 11). At this point, the poem s antagonistic personal agenda begins to reveal itself. The sketch of the pilgrim as pore...