Author: Jonathan Sawday

J D Fleming, The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England: John Wilkins and the Universal Character (London: Palgrave Macmillan 2017) xi + 292 pp. £74.50 Hb. ISBN 978-3-319-40300-7 Known in the United States as ‘Telephone’, in the UK as ‘Chinese Whispers’, and in France as ‘Téléphone Arabe’ the children’s game of passing from one…