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In writing this review I am in no small danger of running short of superlatives. To put it simply, this is a sublime scholarly achievement. Knowing the intense labour and demanding exactitude of a project like this, I am very impressed. It is difficult to conceive how Chad van Dixhoorn could have done a better job of putting these minutes and papers at the service of the scholarly community. He had help along the way, to be sure, and the skilful guidance of David F. Wright and John Morrill, but one quickly gets the sense that this is the fruit of his singular vision. If we count his years as a Cambridge PhD student, van Dixhoorn has worked full-time on the Westminster Assembly for longer than it existed in the first place. I recall being told that he had calculated (I think with tape measure in hand) that, yes, all the members of the assembly could squeeze into the smallish Jerusalem Chamber in which they met; he had even taken a shrewd guess, based on the voting records, as to which groups of divines sat next to whom, and where. He once had a dream, he tells us, in which one of the Scottish commissioners to the assembly, Samuel Rutherford, offered to help interpret the nearly impenetrable handwriting of the assembly's main scribe, Adoniram Byfield. It is as good an indication as any of the all-consuming nature of van Dixhoorn's task. Perhaps we should add here a note of thanks not just to him (and his assistants) but to his wife and children as well. For this set represents a generous gift to scholars of the seventeenth century and to all those interested in the development of Reformed Protestantism in the English–speaking world and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Greenberg's depictions show that bank notes were more alive to people than money today and that each transaction required a keen eye and careful negotiation. The first covers the major players in the market and how bank notes were used in transactions, the second examines the physical nature of bank notes, and the third highlights how personal experiences with bank notes influenced political leanings and movements. Most chapters focus on bank notes before 1840 (though there are scattered examples going forward in time), whereas the last chapter discusses how the issue of greenbacks and standardized national bank notes during the Civil War replaced the chaotic bank note system. [Extracted from the article]

Hungarian backness harmony is investigated in the paper "Testing variability effects in Hungarian vowel harmony", by Fanni Patay, Ágnes Benk"o, Ágnes Lukács, Péter Rebrus & Miklós Törkenczy. Krisztina Szécsényi & Tibor Szécsényi put forward a new proposal for the nature of Hungarian agreement patterns with objects in 'Object agreement and locality in Hungarian: Infinitival complement clauses, second position objects and accusative adjuncts'. In summary, the 16th volume of the I Approaches to Hungarian i series is a highly welcome addition to the growing body of works dealing with grammatical phenomena that are related to or inspired by scholarship on Hungarian. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Current Approaches to Religion in Ancient Greece: Papers Presented at a Symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens, 17-19 April 2008" edited by M. Hayson and J. Wallensten.

Papers from two conferences held in 2019, the 350th anniversary of Susanna Wesley's birth Also, despite their growing "respectability", Victorian Methodists were sometimes reminded of their revivalist roots by American Methodist preachers, such as Phoebe Palmer, whose 1859-63 visit to Britain is discussed by Tim Woolley. As is shown by John Lenton, John Wesley's willingness to trust the "extraordinary" callings of lay preachers stemmed from Susanna's intervention. [Extracted from the article]

This article discusses a book review of "Ernest Nagel: Philosophy of Science and the Fight for Clarity," edited by Matthias Neuber and Adam Tamas Tuboly. The book aims to highlight the significant contributions of Ernest Nagel to the field of philosophy of science, particularly in North America. It includes twelve papers covering various aspects of Nagel's life and work, as well as an unpublished oral history interview and paper by Nagel himself. The review praises Nagel's clarity of thought, vast knowledge, and analytical rigor, while also criticizing the production values of the book. [Extracted from the article]

July 2017 saw the outbreak of yet another border conflict between India and China. It is therefore timely to review two books that deal with the border issues that China has with its neighbours. China is one of a few countries that have borders with many other states, most of which are small. To see how China has dealt with these small countries is relevant to the fact that China, being labelled as a communist dictatorial state, has often been perceived to be unpredictable and lacking transparency in its behaviour. The two books reviewed here may therefore surprise some readers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews the book "Aspects of Apuleius' 'Golden Ass: The Isis Book: A Collection of Original Papers" edited by W. Keulen and U. Egelhaaf-Gaiser.