MICHAEL HARRIS, Lecturer in History, Centre for Extra-Mural Studies, Birbeck College, University of London, founded the Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History in 1984 and was its editor from that time. Among his many published works are London Newspapers in the Age of Walpole (1987), The Press in English Society from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century (1987), The English Book Trade, Serials and Their Readers from 1620 (1993), and A History of the English Newspaper Press, 1620-1990 (forthcoming).

• Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century London Corantos in the 1620s by Michael Frearson Fact, Fiction, and Letters to the Editor in Fielding's Essay-Journals by Bertrand A. Goldgar "The Self-Impannelled Jury": The Reception of Review Journals, 1749-1760 by Antonio Forster Essence and Impartiality: French Language Periodical Digests of the Literary Press in the Eighteenth Century by Judith K. Proud A Protestant Public Sphere: The Early European Newspaper Press by Goran Leth Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Losing a Sense of Proportion: Sports Journalism and Celebrity during America's Jazz Age by Bruce Evensen Cooperation on a Scandal Story: Oscar King Davis and the President by Robert L. Spellman Establishing a Goldfields Newspaper: The Inanguahua Herald, Reefton, New Zealand, 1872 by Ross Harvey A Profile of Media Militancy: Das Kleine Blatt, 1927-1934 by Robert Schwarz "The Unislanding of English": The Defeat of the Channel Tunnel Project of 1882 by Ann Parry Sources: Free Love and Free Thought, The Adult, 1897-1899 by Patricia Anderson Annual Checklist Book Reviews :Annual Review of Work in Newspapers, History: A Checklist by Diana Dixon Martin Barker, Comics: Ideology, Power, and the Critics, by Jeremy Gregory Richard Cockett, David Astor and the Observer by Jeremy Black W.F. Bynum, S. Lock, and R. Porter, Medical Journals and Medical Knowledge by Virgina Berridge John Tebbel and Mary Ellen Zuckerman, The Magazine in America, 1741-1990 by Patricia Anderson Tom Goldstein, Killing the Messenger: 100 Years of Media Criticism and Leo Bogart, Preserving the Press: How Daily Newspapers Mobilized to Keep Their Readers by Brian Ward Jean Sgard, editor, Dictionnaire des journaux 1600-1789 by Anne Goldgar Joanne Shattock, Politics and Reviewers: The Edinburgh and the Quarterly in the Early Victorian Age by Diana Dixon M. Harrison, Crowds and History: Mass Phenomena in English Towns, 1790-1835 by Peter Brett J.R. Zaller, The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion by David Thone and David Chaney Marco Cuaz, Le nuove di Francia, L'immagine della rivoluzione francese nella stampa periodica italiana, 1789-1795 by William Doyle Index