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33 well over one hundred pages of notes, textual and explanatory. For some, this apparatus will constitute, to some degree at least, rather too much of a good thing. Since the History of Apparitions has been attributed to Defoe from the eighteenth century onward and Furbank and Owens do not disagree with this attribution, the extended discussion of that issue seems unnecessary. Lengthy footnotes on such items as the Goths, the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, Jakob Böhme, the Basilica of St. Denis near Paris, Clarendon, and Muhammad, among others, often provide a good deal more information than the reader needs to negotiate Defoe’s text. Still, Ms. Kincade’s care and thoroughness indisputably provide readers with what will undoubtedly be the definitive edition of this work. Welcome as this edition is, this reviewer wishes that the Stoke Newington edition could serve not to duplicate the work of Furbank and Owens (all the AMS titles have also been published in the Pickering & Chatto edition of Defoe’s works), but to supplement or even counter that project. A number of works that have been cast out of the Defoe canon as a result of Furbank and Owens’s ‘‘de-attributions’’ are nevertheless potentially of great interest to Defoe scholars, even if they were not written by Defoe himself. These include, for example, several thief biographies, some secret histories, the Memoirs of Captain Carleton, Robert Drury’s Journal, and The Memoirs of Majr. Alexander Ramkins. Such works as these may be thought of as participating in discourses to which works by Defoe also contribute. And having modern editions of such works would enrich our view not only of Defoe but also, more generally, of the early history of the novel, life-writing, natural history, and secret history. So while Ms. Kincade’s edition of the History of Apparitions happily makes this text readily available to eighteenth-century scholars, the editors of the Stoke Newington edition might also consider using that series as a way of enriching our knowledge of the world of Defoe in a way that its rival edition cannot and will not do. Robert Mayer Oklahoma State University DANIEL DEFOE. Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural, 8 volumes, ed. W. R. Owens and P. N. Furbank. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2003, 2005. V.1: Poetry, ed. W. R. Owens. Pp. 536. V. 2: Jure Divino, ed. P. N. Furbank. Pp. 388. V. 3: The Consolidator; Memoirs of Count Tariff, The Quarrel of the School-Boys at Athens, ed. Geoffrey Sill. Pp. [264]. V. 4: Minutes of the Negotiations of Monsr. Mesnager, Secret Memoirs of a Treasonable Conference at S— House, The Old Whig and Modern Whig Revived, ed. P. N. Furbank. Pp. [217]. V. 5: The Conduct of Christians made the Sport of Infidels, A Continuation of Letters written by a Turkish Spy, ed. David Blewett. Pp. 282. V. 6: Political History of the Devil, ed. John Mullan. Pp. 326. V. 7: A System of Magick, ed. Peter Elmer. Pp. 313. V. 8: An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions, ed. G. A. Starr. £350; $625 (for first four vols).£350; $625 (for the second four). This latest installment of eight volumes in the Pickering Masters series of handsome , expensive books by Defoe, bringing the total to twenty-six with others in the 34 pipeline, is very welcome. Although loosely linked under the rubric Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural, this collection contains two volumes of poems, all appearing early in his career, a range of prose fiction, and three late books on supernatural topics. The general editors Messrs. Owens and Furbank have rounded up an excellent group of Defoe scholars and edit individual volumes themselves as well. The Introductions to the volumes total around two hundred pages. The full Index appears in the last volume, and editorial principles for this old-spelling edition appear in the first. It is hard to do well-edited and annotated volumes justice in a brief review. The Introduction to Mr. Owens’s big volume of the poetry focuses on the handful of most important poems other than Jure Divino: The True-Born Englishman, A Hymn to the Pillory, Reformation...

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