John Stokes,"Ellen Terry, epistolary eccentric," TLS, 30 March, reviews Katharine Cockin, ed., The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry, 2 volumes. Michael Dirda,"Nicholas Frankel reframes ‘Picture of Dorian Gray'," Washington Post, 30 March, reviews Frankel's new edition of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition. Seamus Perry,"Thomas Hardy and his critics," TLS, 30 March, reviews Rosemarie Morgan, ed., Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy.

Claudia FitzHerbert for the Telegraph, 25 March, Patrick Parrinder for the Financial Times, 25 March, and Jerome Boyd Maunsell,"A novelists's novel?" TLS, 30 March, review David Lodge's biographical novel about H. G. Wells, A Man of Parts.

Andrew J. Nathan,"The Counter-Revolutionaries," The Book, 31 March, reviews Jay Taylor's The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and The Struggle For Modern China and Hannah Pakula's The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek And The Birth Of Modern China.

Simon Sebag Montefiori,"Every Revolution Is Revolutionary in Its Own Way," NYT, 26 March, looks"to statesmen who knew much about crushing and making revolutions" for wisdom about them.

Diane Ravitch,"Shame on Michelle Rhee," Daily Beast, 29 March, comments on the cheating on standardized tests scandal in the DC public schools. Atlanta's award-winning public school superintendent, Beverly Hall, is forced to retire under fire in a similar scandal.

Finally, farewell to Manning Marable, a radical scholar in African American Studies.