Whither the Field of Nineteenth-Century Art History? commentaries by Annette Blaugrund, Werner Busch, Henri Dorra, Lynda Nead, and Linda Nochlin Five senior scholars offer their personal views on where the discipline has been, where it is today, and what might be ahead.
	The Legendary Cossacks: Anarchy and Nationalism in the Conceptions of Ilya Repin and Nikolai Gogol by Walther K. Lang The Zaporozhian Cossacks, painted by Ilya Repin in the years 1880-1891, echoed some of the clichés found in Nikolai Gogol's historical tale Taras Bulba (1835-42). The diverse qualities ascribed to the legendary Cossacks made them a mirror of Russians' national identity and unfullfilled aspirations.		Louise Breslau: De l'impressionnisme aux années folles, exhibition and catalogue Reviewed by William Hauptman   Between Street and Mirror: The Drawings of James Ensor, exhibition and catalogue Reviewed by Sura Levine   Victorian Babylon: People, Streets, and Images in Nineteenth-Century London by Lynda Nead and Body, Place, and Self in Nineteenth-Century Painting by Susan Sidlauskas Reviewed by Elizabeth Mansfield   Manet and the Family Romance by Nancy Locke and Passionate Discontent: Creativity, Gender and French Symbolist Art by Patricia Mathews Reviewed by Elizabeth Menon   John Brett: A Pre-Raphaelite on the Shores of Wales, exhibition and catalogue; Frederick Sandys and the Pre-Raphaelites, exhibition and catalogue; Frederick Sandys, 1829–1904: A catalogue Raisonné by Betty Elzea; and Professional Women Painters in 19th-Century Scotland: Commitment, Friendship, Pleasure by Janice Helland Reviewed by Pamela Gerrish Nunn   Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, and Roussel, 1890–1930, exhibition and catalogue Reviewed by Jane Mayo Roos
	Young Women in Old Clothes: The Politics of Adolphe Braun's Personifications of Alsace and Lorraine by Julia Ballerini         In Praise of Motherhood: The Promise and Failure of Painting for Social Reform in Late-Nineteenth-Century Italy by Judith Meighan         Trompe l'oeil: Photography's Illusion Reconsidered by Stephen C. Pinson         "Art, Cheap and Good": The Art Union in England and the United States, 1840–60 by Joy Sperling         The Topographical Aesthetic in French Tourism and Landscape by Greg M. Thomas         "Beetle Abominations" and Birds on Bonnets: Zoological Fantasy in Late-Nineteenth-Century Dress by Michelle Tolini         A. W. N. Pugin's Mount Saint Bernard Abbey: The International Character of England's Nineteenth-Century Monastic Revival by Victoria M. Young