Discourse on history, law, and governance in the public career of John Selden, 1610–1635. By Paul Christianson. London: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Pp. xiii+451. ISBN 0 8020 0838 0. £48.00.

Sovereignty and the sword: Harrington, Hobbes, and mixed government in the English Civil Wars. By Arihiro Fukuda. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. ix+175. ISBN 0 19 8206836. £35.00.

The intellectual origins of the English Revolution revisited. By Christopher Hill. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. xi+422. ISBN 0 19 820668 2. £25.00.

Constant minds: political virtue and the Lipsian paradigm in England, 1584–1650. By Adriana McCrea. London: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Pp. xiii+342. ISBN 0 8020 0666 3. £49.00.

Sir Henry Vane, theologian: a study in seventeenth-century religious and political discourse. By David Parnham. London: Associated University Presses, 1997. Pp. 370. ISBN 0 8386 3681 0. £39.50.

King James VI and I and the reunion of Christendom. By W. B. Patterson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xv+409. ISBN 0 521 41805 4. £40.00 (pb, £15.95).

Jacobean gentleman: Sir Edwin Sandys, 1561–1629. By Theodore K. Rabb. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. xii+412. ISBN 0 691 02694 7. £37.50.

Francis Bacon. By Perez Zagorin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi+286. ISBN 0 691 05928 4. £35.00 (pb, £10.50).