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The article offers poetry criticism of the poem "The Prelude," by William Wordsworth, focusing on the section "Cambridge and the Alps" in Book 6 of the poem. It examines the role of the poem in determining biographical information about Wordsworth from the summer of 1790, when he and friend Robert Jones traveled in Europe and the Alps. The author discusses the poem in light of cartography and a letter written from Wordsworth to his sister during the European tour.

Utopianism, wild optimism, and a spreading conviction that the many ills of the world could be remedied with just the right formulas punctuated the final decades of the Victorian era. Given the absence of outright global conflicts and pandemics, the seeming triumph of industrialism, the conquest and occupation by Europe of remote areas of the globe, and a communications revolution that knit distant regions more easily to mother countries, leading figures of the period thought that they could confidently succeed in making the planet a much better and much more humanly rewarding enterprise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This new set of volumes provides a welcome addition to the field of the history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT). In the first volume, therefore, comprising eleven chapters (three of which are in French), we see the development of grammatical treatises that language education historiographers depend on to understand how vernaculars were codified and presented for pedagogical purposes in different settings, while by the third volume we see contemporary practitioners reflecting on their own experience (e.g. Daniels, Chapter 20, Volume II). As indicated in the volume titles, the first two volumes restrict their coverage to Europe, across respectively the sixteenth-eighteenth centuries (Volume I) and the nineteenth-twentieth centuries (Volume II). [Extracted from the article]

Liu's survey analysis finds that in all five countries, Chinese migrants situated in bridging Mandarin networks are more likely than their counterparts in bonding networks to engage with the political institutions and the locals. According to these criteria, bonding networks were largely found among Zhejiang and Fujianese migrants, while other Chinese migrants were in Mandarin-speaking bridging networks. Here Amy Liu chooses migrants' language(s) as the defining characteristic of their migrant networks. [Extracted from the article]

A review of the book "Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition" by David Nirenberg is presented.

The article reviews the book "Islam in Inter-War Europe," edited by Nathalie Clayer and Eric Germain.

The article reviews the book "Resorts and Ports: European Seaside Towns Since 1700," edited by Peter Borsay and John K. Walton.

The reduction of non-wage labour costs has become a top priority of virtually all social insurance reforms in the European Union. This paper starts out by discussing the levers politicians can theoretically manipulate to lower non-wage labour costs without undermining the equilibrium between revenue and expenditure in social security, focusing on pension schemes. After a discussion of general options open to policymakers, the paper discusses the reforms in Germany during the past decade, in particular the most recent pension reform that seeks to introduce a privately administered funded element into the statutory scheme. It concludes by critically assessing the extent to which this partial return to funding will allow the country to overcome the pending demographic crisis of social security, and by pointing to reform options that have not been considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West, by Christopher Caldwell.

The article reviews the book "The Globalisation Challenge for European Higher Education: Convergence and Diversity, Centres and Peripheries" edited by P. Zgaga, U. Teichler, and J. Brennan.

The article reviews the textiles exhibitions "Katagami Style," held at the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum in Tokyo, Japan from April 6 through May 27, 2012, and one entitled "'The Stuff that Matters:' Textiles collected by Seth Siegelaub for the Centre for Social Research on Old Textiles" held in London, England March 1 through May 6, 2012.

The article reviews the book "European Private Law: Current Status and Perspectives," edited by Hans Schulte-Nölke and Reiner Schulze.

The article reviews the books "Essays in the History of Youth and Community Work: Discovering the Past," edited by R. Gilcrest, T. Jeffs, J. Spence, and J. Walker and "Amid Social Contradictions: Towards a History of Social Work in Europe," edited by G. Hauss and Dagmar Schulte.

The article reviews the book "Labour, Education and Society: New Forms of Work Organisation and Industrial Relations in Southern Europe," edited by Francesco Garibaldo and Volker Telljohan.

Reviews three books on the history of towns in Europe. `Towns in Tudor and Stuart Britain,' by Sybil M. Jack; `Small Towns in Early Modern Europe,' edited by Peter Clark; `Markets, Market Culture and Popular Protest in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland,' edited by Adrian Randall and Andrew Charlesworth.

Reviews two books about the towns and cities in the Medieval Europe. `Death in Towns: Urban Responses to the Dying and the Dead,' edited by Steven Bassett; `City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe,' edited by Barbara A. Hanawalt and Kathryn L. Reyerson.