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Abstract: 412 April 1985 VoL 36 No. 4 Hospital and Community Psychiatry the “healthy but unhappy.” Penhaps we have forsaken rights to treatment for rights to freedom. And who, in this era of block grants, cost containment, and consumer advocacy, is ultimately responsible for initiating and coordinating services? Surely the chronically mentally ill cannot go it alone. Although comprehensive, this monograph does have its shortcomings. It does not address where skills for community living would best be taught: in preparatory residential facilities or in the community itself. It gives but passing notice to the homeless mentally ill, a significant minority (perhaps one-

Abstract: Before I get down to those problems about time that seem to me relevant to ancient historiography, I have to eliminate a series of faulty questions, part of which at least derive from an arbitrary introduction of the notion of eternity into the historian's business; for this conception even in the form of eternal return is likely to lead to confusion and errors of various kinds.2 "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." To the untutored eye of the non-theological reader this seems to be clear evidence that the priestly author of Genesis I knew that from the beginning of the world events followed each other in a chronological order. (The exact translation of the difficult Hebrew text is irrelevant to our point.) The same priestly author speaks of the first, second, third day, and so forth. "The wrath do thou sing, o goddess, of Peleus' son, Achilles, . . . sing thou thereof from the time when at the first there parted in strife Atreus' son, king of men, and goodly Achilles." To the untutored eye of the nonphilologist this seems to be clear evidence that the author of the first book

Abstract: Introduction: She thinks not on the state? 1 'The right vse of Poesie': Elizabeth Melville's religious verse and Scottish Presbyterian politics 2 'Thou art the nursing father of all pietye': sociality, religion, and politics in Anne Southwell's verse 3 'When that shee heard the drums and cannon play': Jane Cavendish and occasional verse 4 'This kingdoms loss': Hester Pulter's elegies and emblems 5 'I see our nere, to be reentered paradice': Lucy Hutchinson's 'Elegies' and Order and Disorder Conclusions

Abstract: Introduction Stephan Elspass: A twofold view 'from below': New perspectives on language histories and historical grammar I. Language variation in letters, diaries and other text sources from below Marina Dossena: "As this leaves me at present" - Formulaic usage, politeness and social proximity in nineteenth-century Scottish emigrants' letters Tony Fairman: 'Lower-order' letters, schooling and the English language, 1795 to 1834 Nicola McLelland: "Doch mein Mann mochte doch mal wissen..." A discourse analysis of 19th-century emigrant men and women's private correspondence Gertrud Reershemius: Remnants of Western Yiddish in East Frisia Marijke van der Wal: Eighteenth-century linguistic variation from the perspective of a Dutch diary and a collection of private letters II. From past to present: Change from above - change from below Joan C. Beal/Karen P. Corrigan: 'Time and Tyne': a corpus-based study of variation and change in relativization strategies in Tyneside English David Denison: Syntactic surprises in some English letters: the underlying progress of the language Richard Dury: YOU and THOU in Early Modern English: cross-linguistic perspectives Kirstin Killie: On the history of verbal present participle converbs in English and Norwegian and the concept of 'change from below' Alexandra Lenz: The grammaticalization of geben 'to give' in German and Luxembourgish Koen Plevoets/Dirk Speelman/Dirk Geeraerts: A corpus-based study of colloquial 'Flemish' Reinhild Vandekerckhove: 'Tussentaal' as a source of change from below in Belgian Dutch. A ca.