Review Article : Ancien Regime and Enlightenment. Some Recent Writing on Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe Review Article Jeremy Black Roger Bartlett and Janet M. Hartley, eds, Russia in the Age of the Enlightenment. Essays for Isabel de Madariaga, London, Macmillan, 1990; x + 253 pp.; 45.00. Otto Busch and Monika Neugebauer-Wolk, eds, Preussen und die Revo lutionare Herausforderung seit 1789. Ergebnisse einer Konferenz, Berlin and New York, Walter de Gruyter, 1991; xv + 371 pp.; DM 168,-. Heinz Duchhardt, Altes Reich und europaische Staatenwelt 1648-1806, Munich, Oldenbourg, 1990; viii + 125 pp.; DM 64,- hardback, DM 28, paperback. Lindsey Hughes, Sophia, Regent of Russia 1657-1704, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1990; xvii + 345 pp.; 19.95. Peter Hulme and Ludmilla Jordanova, eds, The Enlightenment and its Shadows, London, Routledge, 1990; viii + 232 pp.; 35.00. Bernhard R. Kroener, ed., Europa im Zeitalter Friedrichs des Grossen: Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft, Kriege, Munich, Oldenbourg, 1989; 316 pp.; DM 48,-. Jerzy Lukowski, Liberty's Folly. The Polish--Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Eighteenth Century, London, Routledge, 1991; xx + 316 pp.; 40.00. Peter Nitschke, Verbrechensbekampfung und Verwaltung. Die Entstehung der Polizei in der Grafschaft Lippe (1700-1814), Munster, Waxman, 1990; 222 pp.; DM 49,90. Robert A. Schneider, Public Life in Toulouse, 1463-1789. From Munici pal Republic to Cosmopolitan City, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1990; xiii + 395 pp.; US $49.95. H. M. Scott, ed., Enlightened Absolutism. Reform and Reformers in Later Eighteenth-Century Europe, London, Macmillan, 1990; x + 385 pp.; 35.00. Franco Venturi, The End of the Old Regime in Europe, 1776-1789: Vol. I: The Great States of the West, Vol. II: Republican Patriotism and the Empires of the East, translated by R. Burr Litchfield; Princeton, Prince ton University Press, 1991; xiv + 1044 pp.; US $75.00 together, or I: $42.50, II: $39.95