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The article reviews the book "The Cartwright Papers: Essays on the Cervical Cancer Inquiry of 1987-88," edited by Joanna Manning.

Two poems attributed to Lucy Hutchinson by David Norbrook prove to have strong affinities with the style of her known verse on quantitative measures. A twenty-canto versification of Genesis titled Order and Disorder and a much shorter rejoinder to Waller's ‘Panegyrick’ of Cromwell were tested, using data from the frequencies of very common words, and with a set of twenty-five poets and a group of other long poems as controls. With or without the selection of Hutchinson ‘marker words’ the target poems clustered with Hutchinson's other work in a way which leaves little doubt as to their authorship. These results confirm Norbrook's attribution and help establish quite a varied canon for Hutchinson, and one which is of considerable importance in Civil War and Restoration literary history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book 'Toynbee Hall: The First Hundred Years,' by Asa Briggs and Ann Macartney.

The article reviews the book "The Complete Classical Music Guide," by John Burrows.