A Way With Water — Water Resources and the Life of an 18th-Century Park

The park around Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire, contains sites and monuments from the early medieval period onwards. Many of these are to do with the use and management of water. This account, mainly based on these remains, tells the story of the changing ways in which water resources have been exploited. A detailed account of the development of the Georgian park under the aegis of two individuals — William Holbech, the landowner, and Sanderson Miller, a gentleman architect — looks at factors which influenced the design of the park, documents a number of surviving structures and examines some of the technical aspects of construction. A number of highly unusual features have been recorded, including a garden amphitheatre, a large raised pool and an elongated waterway which shares some characteristics with early river navigations. The consideration of the options available to both the workforce and the social elite who shared the park explores the divide between labour and leisure.     

A map of Germany made after the Swedish Campaign of 1630–48

Summary

The Elizabethan small‐scale maps of towns, beginning with Cuningham's Norwich (1559) and ending with Speed's collection in his Theatre, are often underrated by historians. If used intelligently, these maps, which combine a ground plan with perspective drawing, can give much useful historical information, particularly about the main street pattern; fortifications or other buildings, since demolished; and the extent of suburban development. Large‐scale maps of this and later periods provide not only a reliable record of the changes in the street plan, but often depict the structure of houses or the various kinds of industrial undertakings, and give historical or statistical details of great importance. Many have borders filled with accurate engravings of buildings, since demolished. From the time of Leake's great survey of London (1665), but especially in the second half of the 18th century, an increasing number of towns had accurate surveys made at a scale of approximately 1: 5,000. The best of these show the house plots in detail, the relation of the built‐up area to the open spaces, and land use in the environs. In the first decades of the 19th century plans of the greatest detail and reliability were made for some of the larger towns on a scale of 1 : 2,500. All are valuable material for the student of social and economic history.     

“A Good Saxon Compound”

A Northern Thanatology: A Comprehensive Review of Illness, Death and Dying in the North West of England from the 1500s to the Present Time. By Christine Kenny with contributions from Bill Flynn and Joan Miller. Dinton, Wiltshire: Quay Books, 1998. xxii + 158pp. Pbk £11.99. ISBN 1 85642 096 5 Reviewed by Tony Walter.

A Thanatology of Wan Gender, War, Bereavement and Loss. By Christine Kenny with contributions from Liz Foster and Margaret Moore. Dinton, Wutshire: Quay Books, 1998. xvi + 208pp. Pbk £11.99. ISBN 1 85642 098 1 Reviewed by Tony Walter.

A Thanatology of the Child: Children and Young People's Perceptions, Experiences and Understanding of Life, Death and Bereavement. By Christine Kenny. Dinton, Wiltshire: Quay Books, 1998. Pbk £10.99. ISBN 1 85642 097 3 Reviewed by Tony Walter.

Following Tradition: Folklore in the Discourse of American Culture By Simon J. Bronner. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1998. $49.95. xv + 599pp. Illus. ISBN 0 87421 239 1 Reviewed by Eddie Cass.

“Songs beyond the Kalevala”: Transformations of Oral Poetry. Edited by Anna-Lena Siikala and Sinikka Vakimo. Studia Fennica Folkloristica, no. 2. Helsinki: SKS, 1994. 399pp. B /w illus. ISBN 951 717694 5 Reviewed by Jonathan Roper.

Mind and Form in Folklore: Selected Articles. By Matti Kuusi. Edited by Henno Ilomaki. Studia Fennica Folkloristica, no. 3. Helsinki: SKS, 1994. 199pp.l6 plates. ISBN 951 717 7976 Reviewed by Jonathan Roper

Proverbs of Ancient Sumen The World's Earliest Proverb Collections. By Bendt Alster. 2 vols. 548pp. Bethesda, Maryland: CDL Press. ISBN 1883053 20 x Reviewed by Gwendolyn Leick

Playing on the Motherground: Cultural Routines for Children's Development. By David F. Lancy. New York and London: The Guilford Press, 1996. 240pp. £24.50. ISBN 157230142 2 Reviewed by Mavis Curtis.

Reimagining Culture: Histories, Identities, and the Gaelic Renaissance. By Sharon Macdonald. Oxford: Berg, 1997. 297pp. Illus. pbk. £14.99. ISBN 1 85973 985 7 (Paper); 1 85973 980 6 (Cloth) Reviewed by Amy Hale.

National Redeemer: Owain Glyndwr in Welsh Tradition. By Elissa R. Henken. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1996. pbk. £19.95 250pp. ISBN 0 7083 1290 X Reviewed by Amy Hale.

The End of the World as We Know It: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalypse in America. By Daniel Wojcik. New York: New York University Press, 1997. 281pp. hdbk. $50.00/pbk. $18.95 Illus. ISBN O 8147 9283 9 Reviewed by Amy Hale.

Robin Hood: Die vielen Gesichter des edlen Raubers/The Many Faces of the Celebrated English Outlaw. Edited by Kevin Carpenter. Oldenburg: Bibliotheks- und Informationsystem der Universität Oldenburg, 1995. 303pp. ISBN 3 8142 0528 6 Reviewed by Malcolm Jones.

Words with Pictures: Welsh Images and Images of Wales in the Popular Press, 1640–1860. By Peter Lord. Aberystwyth: Plant, 1995. 167pp. £19.95. ISBN 0 9505188 2 4 Reviewed by Malcolm Jones.

Murder and Vengeance Among the Gods: Baldr and Scandinavian Mythology. By John Lindow. F.F. Communications, no. 262. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1997. 210pp. ISSN 0014 5815/ISBN 95141 08094 Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

The Walled-Up Wife: A Casebook. Edited by Alan Dundes. Wisconsin and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. 210pp. £13.50. ISBN 0 299 15074 7 Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

Merkisdagar á; Mannsaevinni. By Árni Björnsson. Reykjavik: Mál og Menning, 1996. 487pp. Illus. ISBN 9979 31474 5 Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

Theories of Myth: An Annotated Bibliography. By Thomas J. Sienkewicz. Magill Bibliographies. New York: Scarecrow Press, 1997. xi + 225pp. £30.40. ISBN 08108 3388 3 Reviewed by Juliette Wood.

Scipio Storytelling: Talk in a Southern Indiana Community. By Margaret Read MacDonald. Lanham, New York and London: University Press of America, Inc. 1996. 233pp. Illus. $34.00. ISBN 0 7618 0349 1 Reviewed by Ruth Glass.

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry. By Jack Zipes. New York and London: Routledge, 1997.170pp. Pbk £13.99. ISBN 0 415 91850 2 Reviewed by Ruth Glass.

A Coven of Scholars: Margaret Murray and Her Working Methods. By Caroline Oates and Juliette Wood. Folklore Society Archive Series, no. 1, 1998. 101pp. £5.95. ISBN 0 903515 16 54 Reviewed by Ronald Hutton.

Sword Dancing in Europe: A History. By Stephen D. Corrsin. Tradition Series, no. 3. Enfield Lock: Hisarlik Press for the Folklore Society, 1997. xii + 290pp. Illus. ISBN 1 874312 25 7. £25. Distributed by the Folklore Society (enquiries to the FLS). Reviewed by Roy Judge.

The Celtic Cross: An Illustrated History and Celebration. By Nigel Pennick. London: Blandford, 1997. Hdbk £16.99. Reviewed by Rosemary Power.

Fairy Tales, Sexuality and Gender in France. By Lewis C. Seifert. Cambridge Studies in French. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. £37.50. ISBN 0 521 55005 Reviewed by Ruth Glass.

Folklore Fights the Nazis: Humor in Occupied Norway, 1940–1945. By Kathleen Stokker. 1st pbk edn. Madison, Wisconsin and London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. 273pp. ISBN 0 299 15444 0 Reviewed by Reimund Kvideland.

The Folklore of Tameside: Myths and Legends (inside, called The Folklore of Tameside: The Ashton and Longdendale Lordships). By John Walker and Michael Nevell. Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council with the Manchester University Archaeological Unit, 1998. ISBN 1871324211 Reviewed by Andrew F. Bennett.

Mortality. Edited by David Field, Glennys Howarth and Peter Jupp. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Carfax, three times a year. Institutions £108; individuals £38. ISSN 1357 6275 Reviewed by Valerie Clark.     

A SMALL VILLAGE BECOMES “INTELLECTUAL”

<正>Today,the wave of the Internet has swept to not only big cities but also small villages.TashiTuomen Community in Nedong District of Lhoka City is actually a very small remote community located on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.The small village in     

A Review of “Never Enough”

Abstract

Three of Alasdair MacIntyre's published essays help to illuminate his critique of modern liberal individualism Liberalism, in the name of freedom, inculcates indifference to the developmental social needs of human agents, denies the ties that bind members of society to the common good, and prevents political communities from pursuing common goods effectively. Rather than freeing individuals for self-government, liberalism leaves the government of the community's goods to unacknowledged elites. Liberation demands self-government and self-government requires the virtues, which are formed, in part, through the community's shared pursuit of common goods.