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ELT 37:3 1994 Posing as riddle-buster, he riddles his own way through an apparently incomplete list of thirty-two Irish counties in Finnegans Wake 595.1017 . The final essay in the collection, Di Jin's Translating Ulysses, East and West," offers the insight of a translator, in this case one who is translating Ulysses into Chinese, into the peculiar problems of translating Joyce. In the course of his valuable essay, Di Jin discusses German, Danish, French, and Spanish translations to argue against reductive literal correctness and for approximation of the widest complex of implications available to readers of the original. It is bracing to note that the ever-prolific Joyce industry continues to produce works of high quality and influence. The two books reviewed here are evidence of this claim. Robert D. Newman Texas A&M University ♦ Books Received ♦ Backscheider, Paula R. Spectacular Politics: Theatrical Power and Mass Culture in Early Modern England. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. xix + 335 pp. $39.95 Bailin, Miriam. The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction: The Art of Being III. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ix + 169 pp. $49.95 Baldwin, Anna and Sarah Hutton, eds. Platonism and the English Imagination. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xv + 357 pp. $59.95 Barton, Anne. Essays: Mainly Shakespeare. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xix+ 386 pp. $59.95 Beer, John. "Against Finality. Inaugural Lecture, Delivered 4 February 1993." New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 46 pp. Paper $9.95 Bradshaw, Brendan, Andrew Hadfield, Willy Maley, eds. Representing Ireland: Literature and the Origins of Conflict, 1534-1660. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xxiv + 235 pp. $54.95 Braverman, Richard. Plots and Counterplots: Sexual Politics and the Body Politic in English Literature 1660-1730. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xviii + 333pp. $59.95 Buchan, John. The Thirty-Nine Steps. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. The World's Classics, xi + 150 pp. Paper $6.95 Bullen, J. B. The Myth of the Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century Writing. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xi + 336pp. $55.00 438 BOOK REVIEWS Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Michael Mason, Intro. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. The World's Classics, xlvi + 472 pp. Paper $8.95 Collins, Wilkie. Hide and Seek. Catherine Peters, Intro. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. The World's Classics, xxxii + 440 pp. Paper $9.95 Cordner, Michael, Peter Holland and John Kerrigan. English Comedy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xvi + 323 pp. $59.95 Davie, Donald. The Eighteenth-Century Hymn in England. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xi + 167pp. $54.95 Emerson, Sheila. Ruskin: The Genesis of Invention. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xiv + 274 pp. $54.95 Furniss, Tom. Edmund Burke's Aesthetic Ideology: Language, Gender and Political Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xiv + 306 pp. $59.95 Gibbons, Brian. Shakespeare and Multiplicity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xii + 243 pp. $49.95 Gurney, Stephen. British Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. New York: Twayne, 1993. Twayne's Critical History of Poetry, xiv + 339 pp. $26.95 Hedrick, Joan D. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xviii + 507 pp. $35.00 Humphrey, Richard. Walter Scott: Waverley. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Landmarks of World Literature. viii + 128pp. Cloth $32.95 Paper $12.95 Jackson, Russell and Robert Smallwood, eds. PL·yers of Shakespeare 3: Further Essays in Shakespeare Performance by Plays with the Royal Shakespeare Company . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xiv + 222 pp. $34.95 Knott, John R Discourses of Martyrdom in English Literature 1563-1694. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xv + 278 pp. $59.95 Low, Anthony. The Reinvention of Love: Poetry, Politics and Culture from Sidney to Milton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xiii + 258 pp. $44.95 McCabe, Richard A. Incest, Drama and Nature's Law 1550-1700. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xiii + 361 pp. $54.95 McMullan, Gordon. The Politics of Unease in the PL·ys of John Fletcher. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. xiii + 338 pp. $35.00 Macovski, Michael. Dialogue and Literature: Apostrophe, Auditors, and the Colfapse of Romantic Discourse. New York: Oxford...