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This collection of new essays on John Locke by a constellation of leading Locke scholars focuses on his philosophy, biography, sources and influence. The topics discussed here include his theory of ideas, his debt to Stoicism, his relations with the Dry Club and with his translator, Pierre Coste, and the hitherto overlooked critique by Thomas Beconsall. A major emphasis of the collection is the relationship between Locke and seventeenth-century philosophers, Descartes, Hobbes, Cudworth, Bayle, Malebranche and Leibniz. The coverage of Locke's legacy extends to into the eighteenth-century legacy as far as Rousseau and Kant.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introductory essay: a social democrat in action -- 1. Lansbury of London, Observer -- 2. The King I Knew -- 3. Truth About the War -- 4. The Pleasure of Books -- 5. Good Patriot and Bad Politician -- 6. Keir Hardie -- 7. England My England -- 8. Blue Stocking in Action -- 9. A Good Man -- 10. Montgomery: My Assessment -- 11. George Lansbury: Man of His Day -- 12. Mr. Churchill's Eden -- 13. The Role of the Monarchy -- 14. The Hiroshima Choice -- 15. An American 'Statesman of the Century' -- 16. Uncle Fred Looks Back -- 17. Jumping the Gun -- 18. What Sort of Man Gets to the Top? -- 19. Flaws at the Top -- 20. A Name for Loyalty -- 21. A Man of Power -- 22. An Unextinguished Flame -- 23. Bevan as Hero -- 24. Courageous Intellectual -- 25. She Made Things Hum -- 26. Toynbee Hall Looks to the Future -- 27. In the Driver's Seat -- 28. The Man I Knew -- 29. Quite Possibly a Classic -- 30. Mr. Macmillan's Early Political Life and Times -- Epilogue: Professor Peter Hennessey -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W

The article describes the image of Prussian king Frederick II in perception Saxon, English and French ambassadors examined their estimations of internal and military policy of monarch, defined the role of stereotype presentations in forming of image of king.

Davenport reviews Explaining the English Revolution: Hobbes and His Contemporaries by Mark Stephen Jendrysik.