Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe,

Piero Camporesi (trans. David Gentilcore), 27 May 32(R) Breaking Eastern promise, 13 May 5(LA) Breaking of the icons, The, 4 Mar 9(A) Breaking the magic circle, 4 Feb 15(A) Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler, 21 Jan 36(R) Brett, Simon, A Series of Murders, 15 Apr 31(R) Bridesmaid, The, Ruth Bendel!, 15 Apr 31(R) Bridge: Tricks of the Trade, Terence Reece and David Bird, 29 Apr 29(R)

Brief for NatWest's new counsel: credit delayed is credit denied, 25 Mar 24(CS)

Briggs. Joe Bob, Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-in, 3 Jun 31(R) Bright Shining Lie, A: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, Neil Sheehan, 29 Apr 31(R)

BRITAIN

has Britain a consitution?, 7 Jan 20, 14 Jan 22, 21 Jan 24(L); hypemationalism (and xenophobia) contrasted with love of country, 18 Feb 9(A); 'inverted nationalism' in British intellectual life, 4 Mar 18(A), 11 Mar 22(L); a history of the British Isles, 1 Apr 27(R ; the loss of sovereignty entailed by an integrated EEC, 1 Jun 24(E), 25(L) Britain in the4icture, 4 Mar 18(A) British cult o cookery, The, 10 Jun 27(A) British Isles, The: A History of Four Nations, Hugh Kearney, 1 Apr 27(R)

British Library, the, 10 Jun 40(R) Britian, Sir Leon: prospects as EEC Commissioner, 7 Jan 18(R); and the exchange rate mechanism, 18 Feb 23(E) Broadcasting Standards Council: draws up guidelines, 4 Mar 5(LA)

Brome, Vincent, J. B. Priestley, 7 Jan 24(R) Brook. Stephen, The Club: The Jews of Modern Britain, 13 May 40(R) Brown, Peter, The Body and Society, 4 Mar 27(R) Brundtland report on environmental issues, 4 Feb 8(A) Brunei, the Sultan of: 13 May 34(I); two biographies, 13 May

34(R)

Bryer, Jackson R., and Travis Bogard, (ed.) Eugene 0' Neill: Selected Letters, 7 Jan 27(R)

Budd, Zola, 18 Feb 15(A)

Buddy, can you spare a room?, 4 Mar 11(A)

BUDGET. THE

will the Chancellor be left to his own devices over the Budget?, 4 Feb 22(E); Budget suggestions, 11 Feb 6(PC), 4 Mar 24(E); Nigel Lawson's sixth Budget examined, 18 Mar 4(PW), 8,9.10(A); the Daily Mirror on the Budget, 25 Mar 8(AV); a limitation on life assurances, 25 Mar 24(CS) Buffing up manners. . . , I Apr 18(A) Builder's House, The, 6 May 29(P) Building societies: Abbey National's poll on becoming a public company, 11 Mar 31(CA); its share-dealing service, 29 Apr 24 (CS); its share issue, 24 June 24(CS); more societies likely to follow Abbey's example, 24 June 24(CS) Burgess, Anthony, Any Old Iron, 4 Mar 30(R) Burke: Edmund Burke, His Life and Opinions, Stanley Ayling, 14 Jan 35(R), 25 Mar 26(L) Burke, Nigel, A Dictionary of Cant, 7 Jan 16(X)

Burma: an anglophile student and his friends' lack of English literature texts, 29 Apr 14(A); a Christian missionary's reception, 6 May 24(L)

Burmese evening, A, 29 Apr 14(A)

Butte-Jones, Edward: the Holy Grail tapestries, 25 Feb 36(AR)

Burning Secret, The (film), 29 Apr 37(AR)

Burns, Sir Terence: joins the Treasury, 17 Jun 20(CS)

Burns Night massacre, 28 Jan 17(A) Burt, Simon, The Summer of the White Peacock, 11 Mar 43(R) Buscombe, Edward, (ed.) The BFI Companion to the Western, 18 Mar 27(R)

Bush, President George: likely to halt the trend towards Congressional government, 18 Feb 13(A); many appoint- ments still to be made, 18 Mar 11(A.); disarmament Canada: the economic deal with the US, 21 Jan 26(L); its written constitution bypassed, 28 Jan 26(L)

Canada Geese at Kew Gardens, The, 20 May 38(P)

Cancer: mass screening for breast and cervical cancer, 11 Feb 20(A), 11 Mar 22(L)

Cant, A Dictionary of, 7 Jan 16,14 Jan 22, 21 Jan 16, 4 Feb 20, 11 Feb 33, 18 Feb 17, 25 Feb 27, 4 Mar 10, 11 Mar 22,25 Mar 10, 1 Apr 10, 15 Apr 11, 22 Apr 22, 29 Apr 26, 6 May 15, 13 May 12, 20 May 15, 27 May 13, 10 Jun 11, 24 Jun 10(X) Can the Soviet System Survive Reform?, (ed.) G. R. Urban, 24 Jun 39(R) Can the Wall come down?, 24 Jun 14(A) 'Can you draw properly if you want to?, 15 Apr 24(A) Carlyle, Thomas: and Victorian values', 15 Apr 35(LL) Carmen (Earl's Court), 17 Jun 35(AR)

Carr, Sir Raymond: his 70th birthday and a trip to the Rioja region of Spain, 15 Apr 8(AV)

Carringto) n, Lord: a quotation from his memoirs, 21 Jan 23(CS Carson, Michael, Friends and Infidels, 11 Mar 43(R) Cartland, Barbara, 25 Mar 42(A)

Cartoons: puzzling cartoons, 2.8 Jan 7, 4 Feb 7(D), 11 Feb 55(A), 18 Feb 7(D); no longer good likenesses, 4 Feb 25(L); comic art and 'serious' art, 15 Apr 24(A) Cary, Joyce: a biography and reminiscences, 21 Jan 37(R) Cats: Stevie Smith's Major, 28 Jan 25(CS)

Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood, 28 Jan 32(R) Caustic drops and fierce aspersion, 3 Jun 33(LL) Cavafy, Constantine: the play Da s of Cavafy, 10 Jun 8(D) Ceausescu, President: 6 May 20( ; see also ROMANIA Ceausescu's memorial, 15 Appr 11 A), 20 May 22(L)Cemeteries: three sold for 13p, 1 Feb 7(D) Chain of command, The, 11 Mar 13(A) Chalfont, Lord, By God's Will: A Portrait of the Sultan of Brunei, 13 May 34(R) Change and decay in all around I see, 25 Mar 8(AV)

CHANNEL TUNNEL, THE

4 Feb 23(L); a university debate decides against the tunnel, 11 Feb 7(D); protests in Kent against the rail link, 11 Feb 17,r,Mar }; the political repercussions of the rail link, 11 Feb 17 A ; attitudes on both sides of the Channel, 18 M 17 A ; a developer who stands to gain, 18 Mar 17(A) Chaos: Making a New Science, James Gleick, 6 May 32(R) Chaplin, Charlie, 22 Apr 54(A)

Charles, Prince: see Prince of Wales

Charles Waterton, Julia Blackburn, 20 May 38(R) 'Charter 88': calls for a written constitution, 7 Jan 20, 14 Jan

22, 21 Jan 22(L), 28 Jan 5(LA); attacked by Roy Hattersley, 21 Jan 7(D), 28 Jan 5(LA) Chatwin, Bruce: 18 Feb 19, 20 May 31(I); an obituary, 18 Feb 19(A); a character sketch, 20 May 31(R)

Chalwin, Bruce: What Am I Doing Here?, 20 May 31(R) Check to the bounty hunters, A, 7 Jan 14(A)

Chekhov: a study, 4 Feb 30(,R)

Chekhov: A Spirit Set Free, V . S. Pritchett, 4 Feb 30(R) Cheque-book publishing, 15 Apr 15(A) Cherchez la femme, 15 Apr 13(A)

CHESS

a Russia v Rest of the World speed match, 7 Jan 36(A); the Hastings tournament, 7 Jan 36, 14 Jan 44, 21 Jan 51(A); Judit Yolgar wins the Hastings Challengers tournament, 14 Jan 44(A); the computer Deep Thought' defeats The Spectator's deputy editor, 28 Jan 9, 44(A), 4 Feb 23(L), 18 Mar 49(A); military interest in chess and chess players, 28 Jan 9(A), 11 Feb 33, 25 Mar 25, 8 Apr 26(L); answers to the Christmas quiz, 4 Feb 43(A); the world championship quarter-finals, 11 Feb 51, 25 Feb 44(A); Siegbert Tarrasch's Dreihundert Schachpartien, 18 Feb 44(A); Hubner wins a match against Spassky, 18 Feb 44(A); Nigel Short beats Karpov, 25 Feb 6(D), 44(A); the pairings for the world championship semi-finals, 25 Feb 44(A); Zsofia Polgar's