Book Reviews

THE MIRROR AT MIDNIGHT: A South African Journey
By Adam Hochschild.
Viking. 309pp. $19.95

A DEMOCRATIC SOUTH AFRICA? Constitutional
Engineering in a Divided Society.
By David L. Horowitz. Univ. of Calif. 293 pp. $20

PRECISION AND SOUL: Essays and Addresses
By Robert Musil. Ed. and trans. by Burton Pike and David S. Luft.
Univ. of Chicago.301 pp. $29.95

THE PRIZE: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money,and Power
By Daniel Yergin. Simon &
Schuster. 877 pp. $24.95

By Northrop Frye. Edited by Robert D. Denham.
Univ. of Va. 386 pp. $35

By Jane Campbell Hutchinson.
Princeton. 247 pp.$25

RACE AND SLAVERY IN THE MIDDLE EAST: An Historical Enquiry
By Bernard Lewis.
Oxford. 184 pp. $24.95

THE ARROGANCE OF FAITH: Christianity and Race in America from the Colonial Era to the Twentieth Century.
By Fewest G. Wood.Knopf. 517 pp. $29.95

THE NATION, 1865-1990:
Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture.

Edited by Katrina vanden Heuvel.

Thunder's Mouth. 534 pp. $21.95

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