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Contemporary Review
Founded in 1866, Contemporary Review is a scholarly journal published quarterly. Contemporary Review Company Ltd. owns and publishes this journal, and its editorial headquarters is in Oxford, United Kingdom.Contemporary Review covers a number of topics, including politics, international affairs, literature, art and art history. Its region and its audience are international. Dr. Richard Mullen is the editor; Dr. Alex Kerr is the managing editor; Dr. James Munson is the literary editor; and Anselma Bruce is the associate editor. James LoGerfo, Robin Findlay and Charles Foster are the editorial advisers.
Articles from Vol. 269, No. 1569, October
Astrology and English Literature
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Last autumn the British Library mounted a superb exhibition, 'The Earth and the Heavens - the Art of the Mapmaker', setting forth man's changing vision of the cosmos and his place in it, illustrated with manuscripts, maps, celestial and terrestrial,...
East Germany's Culture Confronts American Pop Culture
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The sole basis for progress with social peace and relative calm in any society is a moderate, dynamic equilibrium among its competing claimants to power. In the commercial, political, social, and cultural realms, quests for such equilibria have been...
English Self-Government
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One of the most remarkable achievements of the British during the past two centuries has undoubtedly been the concept of constitutional evolution to self-government. As a result of this concept British colonies throughout the globe have evolved in a...
Muriel Spark
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Though she was to leave for ever her native Scotland at the age of nineteen - she married Mr. Spark bound for Africa - Muriel Uezzell Camberg was well schooled in the ways of Edinburgh. Something of its austere elegance remains in her memory. Muriel...
Paying for Presidential Elections: Some Honey, and Plenty of Money
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In 1988 Senator Bob Dole appeared to be challenging well for the Republican presidential nomination. He had led in the important Iowa caucuses, but soon after this his campaign was damaged by a poor showing in the even more significant New Hampshire...
That Man in the White House
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It is not the careful restraint of the language of the American Constitution of 1787 but the constant drumbeat of occurring and recurring daily crises that have made the office of the President so important. It was not planned so, two centuries ago,...
The Edinburgh Festival, Jubilee Year
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Actors with painted faces perform Shakespearean soliloquies in the streets, fire eaters stage dangerous stunts, acrobats and jugglers mingle with passers-by and the sound of bagpipes fills the air and rises above the noise of cars and pedestrians. This...
