Cencrastus No. 12: Spring 1983

FeaturesThe Anglicisation of Scots Law by Christopher ThomsonThe Maggie, Colin McArthur analyses the locus classicus of everything that is wrong with Scottish film cultureThe School of Scottish Studies, Jim Gilchrist looks at the endangered institutionLabour and Scottish Nationalism: An Update by Michael KeatingMorgan's Range, Kenneth White examines Edwin Morgan's Poems of Thirty YearsBetty Corrigal by George Mackay Brown1982, Janine by Alasdair GrayPoetryPoems by William Hershaw, Ian Bamforth, Iain Crichton Smith, James Robertson, T.S. Law and Angus CalderReviewsTony Dickson (ed.), Capital and Class in Scotland, reviewed by Mack McGrathJute Oot?: W. Stewart Howe, The Dundee Textile Industry 1960 - 1977, reviewed by Tommy GeddesA.S. Bell (ed.), The Scottish Antiquarian Tradition: Essays to mark the Bicentenary of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 1780 - 1980, reviewed by Iain G. BrownPeter O. Anderson, Robert Stewart, Earl of Orkney, Lord of Shetland, reviewed by James A. TroupDavid Toulmin, Hard Shining Corn; Jessie Kesson, Glitter of Mica, reviewed by Carol AndersonDavid Daniell (ed.), The Best Short Stories of John Buchan; Robert G. Blanchard (ed.), The First Editions of John Buchan: A Collector's Bibliography, reviewed by Eileen StewartScottish Shorts: Tim Binding (ed.), Firebird 1 and Fred Urquhart and Giles Gordon, Modern Scottish Short Stories, reviewed by Paul R. HydeAn Objective Solipsist: Robin Fulton, Fields of Focus, reviewed by Mario RelichLiterary Diplomacy: David Reid (ed.), The Party-Coloured Mind: Selected Prose relating to the Conflict between Church and State in Seventeenth Century Scotland, reviewed by Alex MurdochCeltic Omphalos: Brian Friel, Translations, reviewed by Uilliam Fionnlagh (Bill Findlay)The Politics of Poetry: Cairns Craig, Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry, reviewed by Edwin MorganMama Brit Rules OK?: Blake Morrison and Andrew Morton (eds.), Contemporary British Poetry; Sandra Anstey (ed.), Critical Writings on R.S. Thomas, reviewed by Raymond J. RossCanadian Aquarius: Aquarius 13/14: Special Canadian Edition, reviewed by Kent ThompsonJohn Berger with Jean Mohr, A Seventh Man and Another Way of Telling, reviewed by Allan HarknessCarlos Fuentes, Distant Relations, reviewed by Peter CampbellGeorge Seferis, Collected Poems translated by Edmund Keeley and Phillip Sherrard, reviewed by David BlackAlexander Pushkin, The Bronze Horseman and Other Poems translated by D.M. Thomas; Alexander Pushkin, Mozart and Salieri, translated by Antony Wood; and Anfansy Fet, I Have Come to greet You, reviewed by Cristopher Rush