Regent developments in Anatolia and the Caucasus

Saudi Arabia. By H. St. John Philby. London : Ernest Benn. 1955. Pp. 393 + xix. Ill. 30s.

Representative Government in South‐East Asia. By Professor Rupert Emerson. Institute of Pacific Relations. 1955. Pp. 192. Index. $3.50.

Liang Ch'i Ch'ao and the Mind of Modern China. By Joseph R. Levenson. Harvard University Press. 1953. (Harvard Historical Monographs XXVI.)

Chinese Calligraphy. An Introduction to its Æsthetic and Technique. By Chiang Yee. 2nd edition, with a Preface by Sir Herbert Read. London : Methuen. 1954. Pp. xvi +230; 6 plates and 155 text illustrations. 30s.

Western Enterprise in Far Eastern Economic Development: China and Japan. By G. C. Allen and Audrey G. Donnithorne. George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. 1954. Pp. 253.

Shanghai: Key to Modern China. By Rhoads Murphey. Harvard university Press. 1953. Distributed in U.K. by Oxford University Press. Pp. 246, and maps. 36s.

The Prospects for Communist China. By W. W. Rostov and others at the Centre for International Studies, Mass. London : Chapman and Hall. 1954. Pp. 400; inside cover maps and index.

Government and Administration in Communist China. By S. B. Thomas. Institute of Pacific Relations, New York. Pp. 196.

The Wise Man from the West. By Vincent Cronin. Rupert Hart‐Davis. 1955. 300 pp. Ill. 18s.

Stalin's Russia and After. By Harrison Salisbury. London : Macmillan. 1955. Pp. 329. 21S.

The Red Carpet. By Marshall MacDuffie. Cassell and Co. Ltd. 1955. Pp. 330. Ill. Index. 18s.

Muhammad's People. A Tale by Anthology. By Eric Schroeder. The Bond Wheelwright Co., Portland, Me., U.S.A. pp. 838. $10.00.

The Economic Development of Japan. By Professor W. W. Lockwood. Princeton University Press. (London : Geoffrey Cumberledge.) Pp. 592 and Index. 63s.

The Art of Asia in the Francis Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts in Budapest. By Tibor Horváth. Budapest. 1954. 112 plates.

Treasures of Indian Miniatures in the Bikaner Palace Collection. By Basil Gray. Bruno Cassirer, Oxford. Distributed by Faber and Faber. 1955. 12s. 6d.

A Glossary of Chinese Art and Archaeology. By S. Howard Hansford. London : The China Society. 1954. Pp. 104. 15s.

Elizabethan and Yuan: A Brief Comparison of some Conventions in Poetic Drama. By James Liu. London : The China Society. 1955. Pp. 12. 3s.

Wild Flowers of Kuwait and Bahrain. By Violet Dickson, M.B.E., F.Z.S. London : George Allen and Unwin. 1955. Pp. 143; maps. Ill. 25s.

The Waterless Moon. By Elizabeth Balneaves. Lutterworth Press. 1955. Pp. 175, with 15 plates and a map. 15s.

Take These Men. By Cyril Joly. Constable. 1955. 8”×5½”. Pp. x +357 and maps. 15s. net.

This is Kashmir. By Pearce Gervis. Cassell. 1954. Pp. 330; 2 colour plates, 24 pp. of photographs, and a map. 25s.

Man of Everest. By James Ramsay Ullman. G. G. Harrap : London, Toronto, Sydney and Wellington. 1955. Pp. 320. 8½” × 6½”. 18s.

An Innocent on Everest. By Ralph Izzard. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1954. Pp. 256. 111. Bibl. 16s.

Kanchenjunà Challenge. By Paul Bauer. London : William Kimber. 1955. Pp. 202. 12 illustrations. 9½”×6½”. 18s.

The Savage Mountain. By Charles Houston and Robert Bates. Collins. 1955. Pp. 192; 23 illustrations; maps and line drawings. 8½” x 6”. 25s.

The Narrow Smile. By Peter Mayne. John Murray. 1955. Pp. 254. 111. 18s.

September Monkey. By Induk Pahk. Victor Gollancz. 1955. Pp. 283. 15s.

My Several Worlds. By Pearl S. Buck. Methuen. 1955. Pp. 467. 21s.

Mandarin Red. By James Cameron. Michael Joseph. 1955. Pp. 287 approx. Ill. 15s.

One Man in His Time. By N. M. Borodin. Constable, London. 1955. Pp. 343. 21s.     

The campaign in and evacuation of Burma

A History of the Crusades. Vol. III. By Steven Runciman. Cambridge University Press. 1954. Pp. 530; 15 plates, 5 maps and genealogical table. 35s.

The Persian Gulf. By Sir Arnold T. Wilson, with a foreword by the Rt. Hon. L. S. Amery. George Allen and Unwin. London. 1954. Pp. x + 313. 25s.

The Men who Ruled India (the Guardians). By Philip Woodruff. London: Jonathan Cape. Pp. 385, including bibliographical and source notes, appendices, index, 5 maps and 8 illustrations. 8½” × 5½”. 25s.

Within the Taurus. A Journey in Asiatic Turkey. By Lord Kinross. London: John Murray. Pp. 182; 21 illustrations and sketch‐map. 18s.

In the Shadow of the Mahatma. By G. D. Birla. Longmans, Green. Pp. 331. 10s. 6d.

World Without Mercy. The Story of the Sahara. By René Lecler. London: Werner Laurie. 1954. Pp. 223; 13 illustrations, sketch‐map, bibliography. 15s.

The Middle East. Royal Institute of International Affairs. London. 1954. 2nd Edition. Pp. 590 + xviii; 2 maps, bibliography. 35s.

Middle East Dilemmas. By J. C. Hurewitz. New York: Harper Brothers. 1953. Pp. 273 + viii; endpaper map.

The Arab World. By N. Izzedin. Chicago: H. Regnery Company. 1953. Pp. 412 + xii; 19 illustrations. $6.50.

Call to Greatness. By Adlai E. Stevenson. London: Rupert Hart‐Davis. 1954. Pp. 100. 9s. 6d.

The Upanishads. A second selection, translated by Swami Nikhilananda. London : Ph?nix House. Pp. 381. 4to. 18s.

Moslems on the March. By F. W. Fernau. Translated from the German by E. W. Dickes. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1954. Pp. xi + 312 and index. $5.00.

The Wonder that was India. A Survey of the Culture of the Indian Sub‐Continent before the Coming of the Muslims. By A. L. Basham, B.A., Ph.D., F.R.A.S. Sidgwick and Jackson. Pp. xxi + 586. Illustrated with pictures, line drawings and maps. 45s.

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Warren Hastings. By Keith Feiling. Macmillan. 1954. Pp. xi + 420. 8¾” × 6½”. 30s.

Big Tiger and Christian. By Fritz Mühlenweg. Jonathan Cape. Pp. 558. Illustrated. 15s.

Persia is my Heart. By Najmeh Najafi. Gollancz. Pp. 245. Illustrated. 13s. 6d.

A Village in Anatolia. By Mahmut Makal. Translated by Sir Wyndham Deedes. Valentine Mitchell and Co. 1954. Pp. 208. Illustrated. 18s.

No Ten Commandments. Life in the Indian Police. By S. T. Hollins, C.I.E. Hutchinson. 1954. Pp. 304. 8½” × 5¾”. 16s.

Nanga Parbat. By Dr. Karl Herrligkoffer. Elek Books Ltd. London. Pp. 254; 8 colour plates, 55 monochrome plates, 5 sketch maps and diagrams. 9” × 5½”. 25s.

Growing up in an Egyptian Village. By Hamed Ammar, M.A., Ph.D. Rout‐ledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd. 1954. Pp. 299. 28s.

The Temple Tiger and more Maneaters of Kumnon. By Jim Corbett. Oxford Unversity Press. 1954. Pp. 197. 8” × 5¼”. 12s. 6d.

Afghanistan (Ancient Aryana). By A. Rahman Pazhwak, of the Afghan Bureau of Information. Key Press, 194, Portland Road, Hove. 1954. Pp. 81. With coloured portrait of H.M. Zahir Shah, 2 maps and 66 excellent illustrations. 9½” × 7”. No price.     

Some economic problems of Persia

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Oil in the Middle East. By Stephen Hemsley Longrigg. Published under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs by Oxford University Press. Demy 8vo. Pp. 320 + 4 text maps and index. 25s.

The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times. By Rene Guenon. Translated by Lord Northbourne. Luzac. 1953. Pp. 359, including index and notes. 8½” × 5½”. 25s.

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The Culture of South‐east Asia. The Heritage of India. By Reginald Le May, Ph.D.(Cantab.). Allen and Unwin. 1954. Pp. 218, ill. 216 and map. 42s.

India and Pakistan. A general and Regional Geography. By O. H. K. Spate. With a chapter on Ceylon by B. H. Farmer. Methuen. 1954. Pp. 827. Maps and illustrations. 65s.

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The Turkic Languages of Central Asia. Translation of an article by Professor N. A. Baskakov in Voprosy Yazykoznaniya (June, 1952), with commentary by Dr. Stefan Wurm. 6s.

Turkic Peoples of the U.S.S.R. By Dr. Stefan Wurm. 10s.

Russia's Educational Heritage. By William E. Johnson. Pittsburg, Pa., Carnegie Institute of Technology. 1953. Pp. 352, including index, reference notes, bibliography, 42 tables. 8½” × 5½”.

Tadzhikistan. By P. Luknitzki. Moscow. 1951. Pp. 367; 7 col. pictures, 115 drawings, 1 col. map, 11 maps, 62 photographs. (In Russian.)

Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. XLVIII—No 1: Contributions to the Anthropology of the Caucasus, By Henry Field, Cambridge, Mass. Published by the Museum. Pp. x + 154, figs. 24 and map.

Nationalism and Language Reform in China. By John de Francis. Princeton University Press. Pp. 306 + xi. Price $4.

Introduction to the Economic History of China. By E. Stuart Kirby, Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of Hong Kong. George Allen and Unwin. 1954. Pp. 202. 18s.

A Guide to Iranian Area Study. By L. P. Elwell‐Sutton. Compiled under the auspices of the Committee on Near Eastern Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies. J. W. Edwards, Ann Arbor. Michigan. 1952. Pp. 235.

Burma under the Japanese. By Thakin Nu, Prime Minister of Burma. Edited and translated by J. S. Furnivall. Macmillan. 1954. Pp. 132 + 4 plates. 8¾” × 5¾”. 12s. 6d.

“ Mot Lop‐nor. En flodresa på Tarim.” By Sven Hedin. Stockholm : Albert Bonniers Förlag.

The Yangtze and the Yak. By Marion H. Duncan. Pub. U.S.A. 1952. Price with maps $4.25, without maps $3.75.

Tibetan Journey. By G. N. Patterson. Faber and Faber. Pp.231. Illustrated. 15s.

From an Antique Land. By Julian Huxley. Max Parrish. Pp. 310. Illustrated. 25s.

Pietro's Pilgrimage. By Wilfrid Blunt. James Barrie. Pp. 320, illustrated. 21s.

Jerusalem Journey. By H. F. M. Prescott. Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1954. Pp. 242, with index, plates, notes and illustrations. 8½” × 5½”. 18s.

“The One Remains.” A report from Palestine. By Stewart Perowne. Hodder and Stoughton. 1954. Pp. 192. Map and illustrations. 20s.

Far Eastern Agent The Diary of an Eastern Nobody. By Donald Moore. Hodder and Stoughton. Pp. 224. 15s.

Tigerland and South Sea. By Olle Strandberg. Michael Joseph. Pp. 235, illustrated. 18s.

Told in the Market Place. Forty tales translated and set down by C. G. Campbell. Ernest Benn. Pp. 207. 10s. 6d.

Our Everest Adventure. By Brig. Sir John Hunt, C.B.E., D.S.O. Pictorial record of the great ascent. The Brockhampton Press Ltd. Pp. 128; over 150 photographs and maps. 12s. 6d.

India and the Awakening East. By Eleanor Roosevelt. Hutchinson. Pp. 168, illustrated. 15s.

Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure. By E. R. Leach. Published by London School of Economics and Political Science, 1954. Pp. viii + 324. Bibliograph. Index. 35s.

Aramaic Documents of the Fifth Century B.C. By G. R. Driver, M.A., F.B.A., Fellow of Magdalen College and Professor of Semitic Philology, Oxford. Oxford University Press, 1954. Pp. xi + 59. Plates I‐XXIV B. 10½” × 16¼”. 84s. net.     

The rebellion in Chinese Turkestan

La Politique Islamique d'Allemagne. By B. Vernier. Paris : Centre d'Études de Politique Étrangère. Sect. d'Information Pub. 15. 1939. Ed. Hartmann.

Publication of the Institute for Spreading Information about the East. Editor, A. P. Barannikov. Academy of Science, U.S.S.R. Leningrad. 1939.

Islam in the World. By Dr. Zaki Ali. Pp. 428. Lahore: Sheikh Muhammad Ashraf. 1938.

Survey of the Import Trade of India for the Fiscal Year, April 1, 1938, to March 31, 1939. H.M. Stationery Office.

India's North‐West Frontier. By Sir William Barton. John Murray. ros. 6d.

The Naked Nagas. By Christoph von Fürer‐Haimendorf. Pp. ix + 243. 24 plates and map. Methuen. 1939. 15s.

Peaks and Lamas. By Marco Pallis. 9½×3½”. Pp. xx+423. 95 photogravure illustrations and 3 maps. London : Cassell. 18s.

John Nicholson—The Hero of Delhi. By Hesketh Pearson. Collins.

Syria As It Is. By Helen Cameron Gordon (Lady Russell). 9½” × 5½”. Pp. 197. 24 gravure plates, 3 maps, glossary, bibliography, and index. London : Methuen. 1939. ros. 6d.

Minaret and Pipeline. By Margaret Baneri. Translated from the German by L. M. Sieveking. 8¾” × 6″. Pp. 422. Oxford : University Press.

Ataturk, and the True Nature of Modern Turkey. By Gerard Tongas. Translated from the French by Major F. F. Rynd.

China Fights for the World. By J. Gunnar Andcrsson. Translated from die Swedish by Arthur G. Chater. London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., Ltd. 12s. 6d.

The Crusade in the Later Middle Ages. By A. S. Attiya. With 2 coloured and 8 monotone plates and 4 maps. Methuen and Co. 30s.

Buried Empires : The Earliest Civilisations of the Middle East. By Patrick Carleton. 9” × 6”. Pp. 290. 13 plates, 2 maps. London : Edward Arnold and Co. 10s. 6d.

The Cull Chinese Bronzes. By W. Perceval Yetts, Professor of Chinese Art and Archaeology in the University of London. Pp. x +197. 35 plates, 44 figs. London : Courtauld Institute of Art. 1939. £2 2s.

Last Lectures. By Roger Fry. Introduction by Sir Kenneth Clark. 10”×8”. Pp. xxix + 370. Illustrations. Cambridge University Press. 21s.

Berichte des Asien Arbeitskreises. Siebenberg‐Verlag, Wien and Peking. No. 1, February, 1939; No. 2, June, 1939.

The Annual of the East, 1939–40. Published by the Syndicate of the Annual of the East, 160, Shaftesbury Avenue, London. Pp. 148. Price 3s.     

Impressions of Indo‐China

The Mizan Newsletter. Issued monthly by the Central Asian Research Centre and St. Antony's College, Oxford. Price Ios. per month, or £6 per annum post free.

Official Histories of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War, 1939–45. Historical Section, India and Pakistan. Distributors, Orient Longmans.

Expansion of the Armed Forces and Defence Organization. Pp. 397. 15 charts and graphs; appendices and index. 45s.

Campaign in Western Asia. Pp. 461. 37 maps; plates, appendices and index. 45s.

Reconquest of Burma. Vol. I. Pp. 403. 36 maps and charts; appendices and index. 50s.

The North African Campaign, 1940–43. Pp. 515. 43 maps; plates, appendices and index. 50s.

The Origins of Russia. By George Vernadsky. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press. 1959. 8vo, cloth, pp. xi, 354, 3 figs.

Bibliography of Recent Soviet Source Material on Soviet Central Asia and the Borderlands.

Die Mongolei. Land, Volk und Wirtschaft der Mongolischen Volksrepublik. By Erich Thiel. Isar Verlag Munchen (German). Pp. 495. Ill., maps.

My Golden Road from Samarkand. By Jascha Golowanjuk. Translated by Frances Hogarth‐Gaute. Published by Geo. G. Harrap and Co., Ltd. Pp. 215. 18s.

Egypt in Transition. By Jean and Simonne Lacouture. Methuen and Co., Ltd. 532 pp. Illustrated, index. 35s.

Egypt in the Sudan, 1820–81. By Richard Hill. Issued under the auspices of Chatham House. Published by Oxford University Press. 1959. Pp. 188. Index; map; bibliography. 25s. in U.K.

The English Utilitarians and India. By Eric Stokes. Clarendon Press, Oxford. Pp.350. 45s.

India, Pakistan and the West. The Home University Library of Modern Knowledge. Oxford University Press. 1958. Pp. 242. Index. 7s. 6d.

The Oxford History of India. By the late Vincent A. Smith, C.I.E. Third edition, edited by Percival Spear. Oxford University Press. 1958. Pp. 849. Index; maps; illustrations. 42s.

Malaya. A Political and Economic Appraisal. By Lennox A. Mills. Oxford University Press. Pp. 234. Index. 30s.

Aden. By Sir Tom Hickinbotham. Constable. 1958. Pp. xii + 242. 13 plates; 1 map. Index. Price 21s.

The Near East. By William Yale. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 1958. Pp. 486 + xix.

Major Governments of Asia. Edited by George McT. Kahin. Published by Cornell University Press (Oxford University Press, London), 1958. Pp. 607. Index, maps, bibliographies. 45s.

Himmelstier und Gletscherlowe. Mythen, Sagen und Fabcln aus Tibet. In langjährigen völkerkundlichen Forschung unter den Amdo‐Tibetern aufgenom‐men von Prof. Dr. Matthias Hermanns, S.V.D., Bombay. “Das Gesicht der Völker,” der zentralasiatiske Kulturkreis, tibetische Dichtung. Im Erich Röth‐Verlag, Kassel, 1955. Pp. 260, with one frontispiece illustration, two maps and six artistic initials. DM. 4.80.

Amiran‐Darejaniani: A Cycle of Mediæval Georgian Tales ascribed to Mose Khoneli, translated by R. H. Stevenson. Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1958. 8vo, cloth, pp. xxxiii, 240.

The Rebel Emperor. By Lady Flavia Anderson. Published by Gollancz. Pp. 356. Index; biblio. 25s.

Mountains and a Monastery. By Peter Holmes. Published by Geoffrey Bles, Ltd. Pp. 191. Ill.; index. 21s.

Gateway to the Khyber. By Robin Bryans. Robert Hale. 1959. 8¾” × 5¾”. Pp. 173. Ill., index. 18s.

Preface to Cairo. A Survey of pre‐Cairo in history and legend. By Kenneth P. Kirkwood. Mutual Press Ltd., Ottawa.     

Farmers and farming in Ladakh (Tibetan Kashmir)

The War Against Japan—I. Editor Major Gen. S. Woodburn Kirby with Colonels J. F. Meiklejohn and G. T. Wards, Captain Addis, R.N., and Air Vice‐Marshal N. L. Desoer. H.M. Stationery Office. 1957. Pp. 568 and xxii; illustrations, index, 28 maps and sketches. 9¾” × 6¾”. 55s.

The History of the World Conqueror. By Ata‐Malik Juvaini. Translated by John Andrew Boyle, Ph.D. Published in two volumes by Manchester University Press. 63s. Published by University of Manchester in agreement between U.N.E.S.C.O. and the University of Tehran.

Bolshevism in Turkestan, 1917–1927. By Alexander G. Park. Columbia University Press, New York, 1957. Pp. xiv+428, index, bibliography. 55s.

Jawaharlal Nehru. By Frank Moraes. New York: Macmillan and Co. Pp. 510; illustrations, index, bibliography, maps. $6.75.

The Evolution of India. By Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. Oxford University Press, London. 1958. Foreword by G. P. Gilmour, of the McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Pp. 46. 6s.

The Strongholds of India. By Sidney Toy, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A. Heinemann. 1957. Pp. 133; index, 150 illustrations, maps. 30s. net.

Islam in Modern History. By Wilfred Cantwell Smith. 1957. Princeton University Press. Oxford University Press. Pp. x +317 and index. 40s.

Lebanon in History from the Earliest Times to the Present. By Philip K. Hitti. London, Macmillan, 1957. Pp. 548. Ill., index, maps. 42s.

Expédition en Arable Centrale. By Phillipe Lippens. Preface by H. St. J. B. Philby, C.I.E. Pp. 210+xi; 44 photographs (of which 5 are in colour), map, index. Librarie d'Amerique et d'Orient. Adrien‐Maisonneuve, 11, Rue Saint‐Sulpice, Paris VIe. 1956. 32s. 6d.

The Market of Seleukia. By James Morris. Faber. Pp. 337; illustrations, index, maps. 25s.

Forty Years in the Wilderness. By H. St. John B. Philby. Robert Hale. 1957. Pp. 272. 111. Index. 30s.

My Arabian Days and Nights. By Dr. Eleanor Calverley, M.D. Published by Crowell, New York. Pp. 182. Price $2#lb95.

Bureaucracy and Society in Modern Egypt. A Study of the Higher Civil Service. By Morroe Berger. Princeton Oriental Studies: Social Science No. 1. Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press. 1957. Pp. 231. 38s.

The Embassy of Sir William White at Constantinople, 1886–1891. By Colin L. Smith. Oxford University Press. 1957. Pp. 181; index, bibliography. 25s.

The Young Turks: Prelude to the Revolution of 1908. By Ernest Edmundson Ramsaur, Jr. Princeton University Press. 1957. Pp. xii + 180. Index and Bibliography.

A Short History of the Chinese People. (Revised Edition). By L. Carrington Goodrich. Published by Geo. Allen and Unwin. 1957. Pp. 288; illustrations, maps, index, bibliography. 25s.

Ta T'ung Shu. The One‐World Philosophy of K'ang Yu‐Wei. Translated from the Chinese with Introduction and Notes by Laurence G. Thompson. George Allen and Unwin. 1958. Pp. 300; bibliography, index. 35s.

Chiang Kai Shek. A Summing up at Seventy, Soviet Russia in China. Geo. Harrap and Co., Ltd. Pp. 392. Index. 30s.

In the Shadow of the Dragon. By Peter Schmid. Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Pp. 288. Ill., map. 25s.

The Politics of Israel. The First Decade of Statehood. By Marver H. Bernstein. Princeton University Press. 1957. Pp. 360.

Digging up Jericho. Ernest Benn. 1957. Kathleen Kenyon. Pp. 267. Ill., plans. 30s.

Studies in Economic Development (with special reference to conditions ih the under‐developed areas of Western Asia and India). By A. Bonné. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1957. Pp. 294; including appendices and index. 32s.

The Rise of Modern Asia. By Ian Thomson. John Murray. 1957. Pp. 265; illustrations, index, maps. 18s.

Scripta Hierosolymitana. Vol. III. Studies in Economics and Social Sciences. Edited by R. Bacchi. Magnes Press, The Hebrew University. Pp. 396.

Brief Authority. By Edwin F. Stanton. Published by Robert Hale. Pp. 290; map, index. 18s.

True Account. By Ernest W. D. Tennant. Published by Max Parrish. Pp. 256. Index. 21s.

Up and Down Asia. By George N. Patterson. Published by Faber and Faber. 150 pp. 16s.     

A token operation: 204 military mission to China, 1941–1945

History of the Second World War: The War against Japan. Vol. II. H.M. Stationery Office. Pp. 519. Maps and Index. 55s.

The Pathans. By Olaf Caroe. Macmillan. 1958. Pp. 521 and xii. Maps; illustrations; appendix; index. 60s.

A Person from England: and Other Travellers to Turkestan. By Sir Fitzroy Maclean. Jonathan Cape. 1958. Pp. 384. Illustrations; map; bibliography. 21s.

The Fall of the Safavi Dynasty and the Afghan Occupation of Persia. By Laurence Lockhart. Cambridge: at the University Press. 1958. 8vo, cloth. Pp. xiii + 584. 10 plates; 6 maps and plans. 70s.

Kitchener: Portrait of an Imperialist. By Philip Magnus. John Murray. 1958. 8¾” × 5¾”. Pp.410. Index; maps; illustrations. 30s.

Egyptt. By Tom Little. Ernest Benn. 1958. Pp. 321. Map. 30s.

Alexander's Path. By Freya Stark. John Murray. 1958. Pp. 283. Ind.; app.; maps; ill. 30s.

Avicenna: His Life and Works. By Soheil M. Afnan. George Allen and Unwin. 1958. Pp. 298. 30s.

A History of Modern Burma. By John F. Cady. Ithaca New York: Cornell University Press. 1958. Pp. 682. Bibliography and index.

Mazdur: Labor Problems in the Industrialization of India. By Charles A. Myers. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Pp. 297.

India Changes. By Taya Zinkin. Chatto and Windus. Pp. 234. 28s.

The Time of the Mango Flowers. By Roderick Cameron. Heinemann. Pp. 308. Index; illustrations. 30s.

An Economic Geography of East Pakistan. By Nafis Ahmad. Oxford University Press. Pp. 325. 50s.

Frontier Doctor. By Sir Henry Holland. Hodder and Stoughton. Pp. 256. Index; ill.; maps. 25s.

Moscow‐Peking Axis: Strengths and Strains. By Howard L. Boorman, Alexander Eckstein, Philip E. Moseley and Benjamin Schwarz. Foreword by Arthur H. Dean. Published for the Council on Foreign Relations by Harper and Brothers. New York. 1957. Pp. 231.

The Soviet Far East. By Erich Thiel. Translated by A. and R. M. Rookwood. Methuen. Pp. 388. Bibliography; index; 38 maps. 30s.

Syria and the Lebanon Under French Mandate. By S. H. Longrigg. Oxford University Press. 1958. Pp. xii × 404. Index; 3 maps. 42s.

Iraq. By Brigadier Stephen Longrigg and Frank Stoakes. Ernest Benn Ltd. Pp. 256. Appendices; map; index. 27s.

Tensions in the Middle East. Edited by Philip W. Thayer. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press. London : Oxford University Press. Pp. 332. Index; map. 35s.

British Interests in the Mediterranean and Middle East. Report by a Study Group of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Published for the Royal Institute of International Affairs by the Oxford University Press. Pp. 123. 12s. 6d.

Doubts and Dynamite: The Middle East Today. By Emile Bustani. Published by Allan Wingate. Pp. 159. Map. 18s.

The Middle East. A Political and Economic Survey. Edited by Sir Reader Bullard. Oxford University Press. Pp. 569. Appendices; maps; index. 45s.

Muhammad and the Islamic Tradition. By E. Dermenghem. Longmans (Men of Wisdom). 191 pp. 111. 1958. 6s.

Islam—The Straight Path. (Islam interpreted by Muslims.) Edited by Kenneth W. Morgan. The Ronald Press, New York. 1958. Pp. 453. End‐paper map. $6.

A Short Account of Early Muslim Architecture. By K. A. C. Creswell. Peguin Books. Pp. xvi + 330, with 72 plates and 64 text figures. 7¼” × 4½” 8s. 6d.

Malay. By Norton Ginsbury and Chester F. Roberts, Jnr. University of Washington Press, Seattle. 1958. Appendices; maps; plans; bibliography; index.

Temiar Jungle. By John Slimming. Published by John Murray. Pp. 176. Ill. 18s.

The Opium War through Chinese Eyes. By Arthur Waley. George Allen and Unwin. 21s. Pp. 257. Index.

Catalogue of Translation from the Chinese Dynastic Histories for the Period A.D. 220–960. Compiled by Hans Frankel. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles. Pp. 295. $4.50.

Hazor I. An Account of the First Season of Excavations, 1955 (The James A. de Rothschild Expedition at Hazor). By Yigael Yadin and others. The Magnes Press of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1958. Distributed in Great Britain by the Oxford University Press, London. Pp. xxiv‐160. Plates clxxxiv including 13 plans). 8 guineas.

The Mahdist State in the Sudan. By P. M. Holt. Oxford. 1958. Pp. vii + 247. Index; bibliography; maps. 35s.

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush. By Eric Newby. Secker and Warburg. London. 1958. Pp. 247. Illustrations; maps. 25s.

Adventurer's Eye. By Tom Stobart. Published by Odhams Press, Ltd. Pp. 256. Ill. Index. 21s.     

Book reviews

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Asia's Population Problems. With a discussion of Populations and Immigration in Australia. Edited by S. Chandrasekhar. London, Allen and Unwin, 1967. Pp. 311. Map. Index. 45s.

Central Asia

Islam in the Soviet Union. By Alexandra Bcnningsen and Chantal Lemercier‐Quelquejay. London, Pall Mall Press in association with the Central Asian Research Centre, 1967. Pp. xiii + 272. Maps. Bibliog. Indexes. 50s.

A Sino‐Soviet Cultural Frontier. The Hi Kazakh Autonomous Chou. By George Moseley. Harvard University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. viii + 163. Index. 24s.

Afghanistan. By John C. Griffiths. London, Pall Mall Press, 1967. Pp. viii + 179. Maps. Index. 30s.

Afghanistan. By W. K. Fraser‐Tytler. Third edition, revised by M. C. Gillett. London, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. xvi + 362. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 45s.

The Northern Tier: Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey. By Rouhollah K. Ramazani. Van Nostrand Inc., London and New York, 1966. Pp. 142. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 12s.

South Asia

Cabinet Government in India. By R. J. Venkateswaran. London, Allen and Unwin, 1967. Pp. 200. Bibliog. Index. 35s.

Experiment with Freedom. India and Pakistan, 1947. By Hugh Tinker. Published for Chatham House by Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. x + 165. 15s.

The Making of Pakistan. A Study in Nationalism. By K. K. Aziz. London, Chatto and Windus, 1967. Pp. 228. Bibliog. Index. 35s.

Pakistan: Its Ideology and Foreign Policy. By Arif Hussain. London, Frank Cass, 1966. Pp. 186. Bibliog. Index. 35s.

Land Tenure in Village Ceylon. A Sociological and Historical Study. By G. Obeyesekere. London, Cambridge University Press, 1967. Pp. xi + 319. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 70s.

South West Asia

The Middle East Crisis: A Personal Interpretation. By Glubb Pasha. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1967. Pp. 48. Maps. 3s. 6d.

The Communist Movement in Iran. By Sepehr Zabih. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. London: Cambridge University Press, 1966. Pp. viii + 279. Bibliog. Index. $6.00. 48s.

South East Asia

Vietnam. A Diplomatic Tragedy. Origins of U.S. Involvement. By Victor Bator. London, Faber and Faber, 1967. Pp. 253. Map. Index. 42s.

Victor Charlie. The Face of War in Vietnam. By Kuno Knoebl. Translated from the German by Abe Farbstein. London, Pall Mall Press, 1967. Pp. xiv + 304. 42s.

A Concise History of Southeast Asia. By Nicholas Tarling. London, Pall Mall Press, 1967. Pp. xvix + 334. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 52s. 6d.

Malaysia and its Neighbours. By J. M. Gullick. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967. Pp. xiii + 194. Map. Bibliog. Index. Hard cover, 25s. Paperback, 12s. 6d.

Ideology in Indonesia. Sukarno's Indonesian Revolution. By Donald E. Weather‐bee. Yale University. South East Asian Studies. Monograph Series No. 8, 1966. Pp. x + 125. (No price.)

International Aid to Thailand. The New Colonialism. By Ronald C. Nairn. London, Yale University Press, 1966. Pp. vi + 228. Bibliog. Index. 48s.

The Rice Bowl of Asia. By David M. Davies. London, Robert Hale, 1967. Pp. 176. 25s.

Far East

Stages of Industrial Development in Asia. By Sung Jae Koh. University of Pennsylvania Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. 461. Index 96s.

Britain and the Rise of Communist China. A Study of British Attitudes 1945–54. By Brian Porter. London, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. 195. Bibliog. Index. 35s.

Political Participation in Communist China. By James R. Townsend. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1967. Pp. 233. Index. 44s.

The Function of “China” in Marx, Lenin and Mao. By Donald M. Lowe. University of California Press, 1967. Pp. xiv + 200. Bibliog. Index. 40s.

The Party and the National Question in China. Edited and translated by George Moseley. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1966. Pp. ix + 186. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 60s.

The Role of the Chinese Army. By John Gittings. London, Oxford University Press for Chatham House, 1967. Pp. xix + 331. Bibliog. Index. 50s.

China Looks at the World. Reflections for a dialogue: eight letters to Tang‐lin. By François Geoffrey‐Dechaume. Translated from the French by Jean Stewart. Foreword by Philip Noel‐Baker, M.P.; Introduction by Professor Paul Mus. London, Faber, 1967. Pp. 327. Index. 36s.

The Chinese Chameleon. An Analysis of European Conceptions of Chinese Civilization. By Raymond Dawson. London, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. 235. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

Biography and Autobiography

Gandhi's Emissary. By Sudhir Ghosh. London, The Cresset Press, 1967. Pp. 351. Illus. Index. 42s.

Rudyard Kipling. Realist and Fabulist. By Bonamy Dobrée. London, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. x + 244. Index. 30s.

Early English Travellers in India. By Ram Chandra Prasad. Delhi, Sunderlal Jain, 1965. Pp. xxii + 392. Map. Illus. Bibliog. Index. Rs.25.

Warlord: Yen Hsi‐shan in Shansi Province, 1911–1949. By Donald G. Gillin. Princeton University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. xiv + 334. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 72s.

Ts'ao Yin and the K'ang‐hsi Emperor: Bondservant and Master. By Jonathan D. Spence. Yale University Press, 1967. Pp. xiv 4. 329. Map. Bibliog. Index. 56s.

Culture and civilization

Modern Arabic Short Stories. Selected and translated by Denys Johnson‐Davies, with an Introduction by Professor A. J. Arberry. London, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. 194. 25s.

The Tree Climber. A Play. By Tewfik al Hakim. Translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson‐Davies. London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. 87. 6s. 6d.

Javid‐Nama. By Sir Muhammad Iqbal. Translated from the Persian with introduction and notes by A. J. Arberry. London, Allen and Unwin, 1966. Pp. 151. Bibliog. Index. 27s.

History

North‐West Frontier. People and Events 1839–1947. By Arthur Swinson. London, Hutchinson, 1967. Pp. 354. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 45s.

The West in Asia 1850–1914. By Michael Edwardes. London, Batsford, 1967. Pp. 216. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

Indochina. By Bernard Philippe Groslier, trans. James Hogarth. London, Frederick Muller, 1966. Pp. 283. Endpaper maps. 35 colour plates; 110 monochrome plates. Bibliog. Index. 70s.

Malaysia: Selected Historical Readings. Compiled by John Bastin and Robin W. W. Winks. Kuala Lumpur; London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. xvi + 484. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £4 10s.

Henri Mouhot's Diary. Edited and abridged by Christopher Pym. Kuala Lumpur; London, Oxford University Press, 1960. Pp. xxii + 160. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 37s. 6d.

Stories by Sir Hugh Clifford. Selected and introduced by William R. Roff. Kuala Lumpur; London, Oford University Press, 1966. Pp. xviii + 225. 42s.

Trente Siècles d'Histoire de Chine. By Roger Lévy. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1967. Pp. 309. Maps. F.10.

Strangers at the Gate. Social Disorders in South China, 1839–1861. By Frederic Wakeman Jr. University of California Press; London, Cambridge University Press, 1967. Pp. 276. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 48s.

Feudal Control in Tokugawa Japan. By Toshio G. Tsukahira. Harvard University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. 228. Bibliog. Index. Paperback, 28s.

Foundations of Constitutional Government in Modern Japan, 1868–1900. By George Akita. London, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. viii + 292. Bibliog. Index. 68s.

Political thought in early Meiji Japan, 1868–1889. By Joseph S. J. Pittau. London, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. vi + 250. Bibliog. Index. 56s.

Religion and philosophy

Islamic Reform. The Political and Legal Theories of Muhammad ‘Abduh and Rashid Rida. By Malcolm H. Kerr. University of California Press; London, Cambridge University Press, 1967. Pp. vii + 249. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

Travel

Tibetan Venture. By C. G. Lewis. London, Robert Hale, 1967. Pp. 191. Illus. 21s.

Tribes and Tribulations. By Peter Somerville‐Large. London, Robert Hale, 1967. Pp. 188. Map. Illus. 25s.

Love and Hate in China. By Hans Koningsberger. London, Jonathan Cape, 1967. Pp. 150. 21s.     

Learned journals and scholarly reviewing: a correspondence

The Face of Defeat: Palestinian Refugees and Guerillas by David Pryce‐Jones. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972. Pp. 179, 2 maps; £2.95.

Arab Socialism by Abdel Moghny Said, with a section by Samir Ahmed, Blandford Press, London, 1972, 137 pp., index.

The Making of an Arab Nationalist, Ottomanism and Arabism in the Life and thought of Sati'al‐Husri, by William I. Cleveland, Princeton University Press: London: Oxford University Press 1971, pp. xvi, 211, bibl., index, £4.00.

Bright Levant by Laurence Grafftey‐Smith. Pp. xll + 295 illustrations, index. John Murray. £3.00.

Foreign Service Farewell: My Years in the Near East by J. Rives Childs. Pp. 192, illustrations, index. The University Press of Virginia. $6.00.

Hankey Man of Secrets Volume II 1919‐1931 by Stephen Roskill. Pp. 608, illustrations, index. Collins. £5.00.     

The Musandam peninsula and its people the Shihuh

Central Asia

Tibetan Foothold. By Dervla Murphy. London, John Murray, 1966. Pp. x + 206. Map. Illus. Index. 25s.

South Asia

Social Change in Modern India. By M. N. Srinivas. University of California Press; London, Cambridge University Press, 1966. Pp. xv + 194. Index. 55.00.

Many Worlds. An Autobiography. By K. P. S. Menon. London, Oxford University Press, 1965. Pp. 324. Illus. Index. 28s.

Challenges in India. By Taya Zinkin. London, Chatto and Windus, 1966. Pp. 248. Index. 30s.

Succession in India. By Michael Brecher. London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. 269. Index. 35s.

Crisis in Kashmir, 1947 to 1966. By Alastair Lamb. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966. Pp. 150. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 25s.

South‐West Asia

Nationalism and Revolution in the Arab World. By Hisham B. Sharabi London, Van Nostrand Inc., 1966. Pp. ix +176. Map. 15s.

Farewell to Arabia. By David Holden. London, Faber, 1966. Pp. 268. Maps. Illus. Index. 35s.

Permanent Sovereignty over Oil Reserves. By Muhamad A. Mughraby. A Study of Middle East Oil Concessions and Legal Change. Beirut, The Middle East Research and Publishing Centre, 1966. Pp. 233. Bibliog. Index. £2 11s.; $7.00; L.L.22.00.

Oil and Public Opinion in the Middle East. By David Hirst. London, Faber, 1966. Pp. 127. Index. 30s.

Unknown Oman. By Wendell Phillips. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1966. Pp. xiii + 319. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

The Kurds. An Historical and Political Study. By Hassan Arfa. London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. xi + 178. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 35s.

South‐East Asia

The Making of South‐East Asia. By G. Coedès. Trans. by H. M. Wright. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966. Pp. xvii + 268. Map. Illus. Index. 35s.

South‐East Asia: Race, Culture and Nation. By Guy Hunter. Published for the Institute of Race Relations by Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. xix + 190. Maps. Index. 35s.

Reporting South‐East Asia. By Denis Warner. London, Angus and Robertson, 1966. Pp. 342. Maps. Index. 36s.

Vietnam: Between Two Truces. By Jean Lacouture (trans. Konrad Kellen and Joel Carmichael). London, Seeker and Warburg, 1966. Pp. vi + 295. Sketch map. Index. 35s.

The Lost Revolutions Vietnam 1945–65. By Robert Shaplen. London, Andre Deutsch, 1966. Pp. xxi + 404. Map. Index. 36s.

Viet‐nam Witness 1953–1966. By Bernard Fall. London, Pall Mall Press, 1966. Pp. ix + 363. Sketch maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 50s.

Vietnam. Penguin Special edited by Marvin E. Gettleman. Penguin Books, 1966. Pp. 480. Maps. Appendices. Index. 8s. 6d.

Towards Peace in Indo‐China. By Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon. Published for Chatham House by Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. 71. 7s. 6d.

Soviet Strategies in Southeast Asia. An Exploration of Eastern Policy under Lenin and Stalin. By Charles B. McLane. Princeton University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. xv + 563. Map. Chronology. Bibliog. Index. £5.

Far East

A Quarter of Mankind. By Dick Wilson. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966. Pp. 308. Map. Bibliog. Index. 45s.

Chinese Journey. By Gun Kessle and Jan Myrdal. London, Chatto and Windus, 1965. Pp. 160. 45s.

The First Years of Yangyi Commune. By Isabel and David Crook. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966. Pp. iv + 288. Map. Illus. Index. 42s.

Bibliography and Philology

Bibliography on Southwestern Asia. By Henry Field. In Seven Compilations, with Subject Indexes. University of Miami Press, various dates from 1953.

A Kurdish‐English Dictionary. By Taufiq Wahby and C. J. Edmonds. Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. x +179. 42s.

Biography and Autobiography

Faisal. By Gerald de Gaury. London, Arthur Barker, 1966. Pp. xiv + 191. Sketch map. Illus. Index. 36s.

Hirohito, Emperor of Japan. By Leonard Mosley. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966. Pp. xiii + 371. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

Born in Tibet. By Chögyam Trungpa. London, Allen and Unwin, 1966. Pp. 264. Illus. Maps. Index. 35s.

Past Imperative. By Sir Edward Wakefield. London, Chatto and Windus, 1966. Pp. xi + 226. Maps. Index. 35s.

Apprentice to Power. India 1904–1908. By Sir Malcolm Darling. London, Chatto and Windus, 1966. Pp. 256. 35s.

Kipling in India. By Louis L. Cornell. London, Macmillan, 1966. Pp. xiii + 224. Index. 30s.

Pickering, Protector of Chinese. By R. N. Jackson. London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. 127. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. 32s.

Raffles. By Maurice Collis. London, Faber, 1966. Pp. 227. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

Servants of the Dragon Throne. By Charles Drage. London, Peter Dawnay, 1966. Pp. 283. Sketch Maps. Illus. Index. 42s.

The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa. Revised Translation by Eilichi Kiyooka with a Foreword by Carmen Blacker. Columbia University Press, 1966. Pp. xv+ 407. Illus. Index. 56s.

Civilization and culture

Islamic Art and Architecture. By Ernst Kühnel. London, G. Bell and Sons, 1966. Pp. 200. 118 illustrations in black and white. 21 plans. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

Ancient Iran. By Edith Porada. London, Methuen, 1965. Art of the World Series. Pp. 279. Map. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 50s.

History

The War Against Japan. Vol. IV of the Official History. By S. Woodburn Kirby et al. H.M.S.O., 1965. Pp. xxv + 568. Maps. Photographs. Appendices. Index. 85s.

Springboard to Victory. By C. E. Lucas Phillips. London, Heinemann, 1966. Pp. 241. Maps. Diagrams. Photographs. Indexes. 30s.

Kohima. By Arthur Swinson. London, Casscll, 1966. Pp. xvi + 275. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 30s.

A History of India. Volume 2. By Percival Spear. Penguin Books, 1965. Pp. 284. Biblio. Index. 5s.

South Asia: A Short History. By Hugh Tinker. London, Pall Mall Press, 1966. Pp. 287. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

South Asia: A Background Book. By Angus Maude. London, The Bodley Head, 1966. Pp. 186. Maps. Index. 15s.

A Concise History of East Asia. By C. P. Fitzgerald. London, Heinemann, 1966. Pp. 310. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

An Anecdotal History of Old Times in Singapore. By Charles Burton Buckley. London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Kuala Lumpur, University of Malaya Press, 1965. Pp. xii + 790. Maps. Illus. Index. 68s.

The Eastern Question 1774–1923. A Study in International Relations. By M. S. Anderson. London, Macmillan, 1966. Papcrmac. Pp. xxi + 436. Maps. Index. 25s.

England zwischen Russland und Deutschland. Der Persische Golf in der britischen Vorkriegspolitik, 1899–1907, dargestellt nach englischem Archivma‐terial. By Jens B. Plass. Hamburg, Hamburger Gesellschaft fur Völkerrecht und Auswartige Politik, 1966. (Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Aüswartige Politik, Bd. 3.) Pp. viii + 507. Maps. Bibliog. Index. No price.

The Pirate Coast. By Sir Charles Belgrave. London, G. Bell and Sons Ltd., 1966. Pp. xii + 200. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 30s.

Egypt and the Fertile Crescent 1516–1922. By P. M. Holt. London, Longmans, 1966. Pp. xii + 337. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

Four Aspects of Egypt. By John Marlowe. London, Allen and Unwin, 1966. Pp. 303. Maps. Illus. Index. 45s.

Rome on the Euphrates. By Freya Stark. London, John Murray, 1966. Pp. xii + 481. Endpaper maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 63s.

The Greeks in India. By George Woodcock. London, Faber, 1966. Pp. 199. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 42s.

Asia, Gods and Cities. By George Woodcock. London, Faber, 1966. Pp. 340. Sketch map. Illus. Index. 36s.

East Turkistan to the Twelfth Century. By W. Samolin. Central Asiatic Studies, IX. Mouton and Co., The Hague, 1964. Pp. 100. Bibliog. Index. Map.

Religion and Philosophy

Afghani and ‘Abduh. An Essay on Religious Unbelief and Political Activism in Modern Islam. By Élie Kedourie. London, Frank Cass and Co., 1966. Pp. ix + 97. 30s.

Islam et Capitalisme. By M. Rodinson. Paris, Aux Éditions du Seuil, 1966. Pp. 305.     

The village institutes of Turkey

Persia and the Defence of India, 1884–1892. By R. L. Greaves. The University of London. The Athlone Press. 1959. Pp. 301; 5 maps; index. 42s.

The Springing Tiger. A Study of a Revolutionary. By Hugh Toye. Cassell. Pp. 184. Appendices; plates; maps and indices. Foreward by Philip Mason. 25s.

Orde Wingate. By Christopher Sykes. Collins. Pp. 546; maps; plates and index. 35s‐

Ahmad Shah Durrani. By Sardar Ganda Singh. Asia Publishing House. Pp. 457; maps; illustrations; appendixes and index.

Political Leadership among the Swat Pathans. By Fredrik Barth. The Athlone Press. Pp. 143 and index. 25s.

A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar. By K. A. Nilakanta Sastri, M.A. Second Edition. O.U.P. 1958.

Pilot Project, India: The Story of Rural Development at Etawah, Uttar Pradesh. By Albert Mayer and Associates in collaboration with McKim Marriott and Richard L. Park. With a Foreword by Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant, Home Minister, Government of India. University of California Press. 1958.

The Heart of India. By Alexander Campbell. Constable. 18s. 6d.

The Yellow Wind. An excursion in and around Red China with a traveller in the Yellow Wind. By William Stevenson. Cassell, London. Pp. 368. 111.; map. 30s. net.

The Economic Growth of Hong Kong. By Edward Szczepanik. Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1958. Pp. 186. Charts; tables; map. 25s.

Missionaries, Chinese and Diplomats. The American Protestant Missionary Movement in China (1890–1952). By Paul A. Varg. Princeton University Press.

Buddhist Cave Paintings at Tun‐Huang. By Basil Gray and John B. Vincent. Published by Faber and Faber, Ltd., at £6 6s.

Britain and the Arabs. A Study of 50 Years, 1908–1958. By Lieutenant‐General Sir John Bagot Glubb, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C. Published by Hodder and Stoughton. 30s.

St. Antony's Papers No. 4. Middle Eastern Affairs, No. 1. Chatto and Windus. 1958. Pp. 141. 16s.

The Reconstruction of Iraq: 1950–57. By Fabian I. Qubain. Foreign Policy Research Institute. Series No. 6. University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Atlantic Books, London. Pp. 276; index. 35s.

Nuri as‐Said: A Study in Arab Leadership. By Lord Birdwood, M.V.O. Cassell, London. Pp. 306. 30s.

The Arab Federalists of the Ottoman Empire. By Hassan Saab. Pp. xii‐f 322. Biblio. Djambatan, Amsterdam. £2 2s.

Turkish Nationalism and Western Civilization. Selected Essays of Ziya Gokalp. Translated and edited with an introduction by Niyazi Berkes. London. 1959. Pp. 336. 35s.

Rivers and Man. By Robert Brittain. Published by Longmans. Pp. 288. Index; ill.; map. 21s.

Babylon. By Albert Champdor. Translated from the French and adapted by Elsa Coult. London Elek Books. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. Pp. 184 Index; ill. 30s.

Armed Diplomat. By Brigadier J. V. Davidson‐Houston. Published at 21s. by Robert Hale, Ltd.

Smelling the Breezes. A journey through the High Lebanon. By Ralph and Molly Izzard. Hodder and Stoughton. 8J"x5i”. 1959. Pp.253. Map; 24 illustrations. 18s. net.

Elephant Kingdom. By H. N. Marshall. Robert Hale. 1959. 8f"x5t”. Pp.190. 21 illustrations; index. 18s. net.

Beds in the East. By Anthony Burgess. Heinemann. 1959. 8” x 5I”. Pp. 237. 15s. net.

The Kurds and their Country. A History of the Kurdish People from the Earliest Times to the Present. By Major Sheikh A. Waheed. Lahore: University Book Agency, 2nd edition. 1958. Pp. 190. Sketch map. 6 Rupees.

Khirbat al Mafjar. An Arabian Mansion in the Jordan Valley. By R. W. Hamilton. With a Contribution by Dr. Oleg Grabar. Palestine Archaeological Museum. Clarendon Press. Oxford University Press. Pp. 350. Illus.—9 in colour. 8 guineas.

No Friends for Travellers. By A. J. Wightman. Robert Hale, Ltd., London. 16s. net.

India and Modern Art. By W. G. Archer. George Allen and Unwin, London. Pp. 143; 61 plates, index. 35s. net.

Classical Sinhalese Sculpture, c. 300 b.c. to a.d. i.ooo. By D. T. Devendra. Alec Tiranti, Ltd., London. 1958. Pp. 48, 128 plates, index. 30s. net.

Nehru: A Political Biography. By Michael Brecher. Oxford University Press. 42s.

Indo‐Pakistan Relations 1947–1955. By Dr. Jyoti Bhusan Das Gupta. Djambatan, Amsterdam. 35s.

The Diplomacy of India: Indian Foreign Policy in the United Nations. By Ross N. Berkes and Mohinder S. Bedi. Oxford University Press. 30s.

The Message of Milarepa. By Humphrey Clarke. Wisdom of the East Series. John Murray. Pp. 104. 8s. 6d. net.

Hinduism. By Swami Nikhilananda. Allen and Unwin. Pp. 189. 16s. net.

Tao TS Ching. A translation by Ch'u Ta‐Kao. George Allen and Unwin. 1959. Pp. 95. 10s. 6d.

Lu Hsiin and the New Culture Movement in China. By Dr. Hang Sung K'ang. Djambatan, Amsterdam. 1957. Pp. 158.

Stalin's Failure in China, 1924–1927. By Conrad Brandt. Harvard University Press and O.U.P. 1958. Pp. 224. Index and bibliography. 25s.

The Wisdom of Lao Tse. Pp. 237. 21s.

The Wisdom of Confucius. Translated and edited by Lin Yutang. Michael Joseph. 1958. Pp. 302. 21s.

Accounts of Western Nations in the History of the Northern Chou Dynasty. Translated and annotated by Roy Andrew Miller. University of California Press. 1959. Pp. 84.

Documents on International Affairs, 1956. Selected, edited and introduced by Noble Frankland. Oxford University Press; issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Pp. 768. 84s.

Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines or Seven Boo\s of Wisdom of the Great Path according to the late Lama Kazi Dawa‐Samdup's English rendering. Arranged and edited with Introductions and Annotations to serve as a commentary, by W. Y. Evans‐Wentz. With forward by Dr. R. R. Marett and Yogic Commentary by Translator‐Professor Chen‐chi Chang. Oxford University Press, 2nd edition. 1958. Pp. xlii + 389. 9 illustrations. Price 42s. net.

The Doctrine of the Buddha. By George Grimm. Geo. Allen and Unwin. Pp. 536. 42s.

Call to Istanbul. By Constance E. Padwick. Longmans. 1958. Pp. 209. Five illustrations. 16s. 6d.

The Siege of Peking. By Peter Fleming. Rupert Hart Davis. Pp. 273; index; ill.; 25s.

Archaeological Discoveries in South Arabia. By Richard leBaron Bowen Jnr., Frank P. Albright and others. American Foundation for the Study of Man. Baltimore, the John Hopkins Press. 1958. Pp. 315. $10.00.

Archaeology and the Old Testament. By James B. Pritchard. London: Oxford University Press. Princeton University Press, N.J. Pp. xvi + 263. 77 illustrations. 30s.

All Things Made New. By John Ferraby. George Allen and Unwin. 30s.     

Sport on the snowline

Japanese Expansion on the Asiatic Continent. Vol. II. By Yoshi S. Kuno. University of California Press and Cambridge University Press. 24s.

A Key to Victory. By Lieut.‐Colonel C. Garsia, D.S.O., M.C.. with a foreword by Field‐Marshal Sir Philip Chetwode, Bart., G.C.B., O.M., G.C.S.I., K.C.M.G., D.S.O. 8 1/2” x 5 1/2”. Pp. xvii + 328. Maps and illustrations. Eyre and Spottiswoode. 12s. 6d.

South‐west Persia. By Sir Arnold Wilson, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., C.M.G., D.S.O., M.P. Pp. 305. Oxford University Press. 1941. 15s.

Things Mortal. By Lieutenant‐Colonel Sir Frederick O'Connor, C.S.I., C.I.E., C.V.O. Dedicated to H.H. Maharaja Joodha Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana. Preface and illustrations. 9” x6”. Pp. 256. London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1940. 10s. 6d.

Bid Time Return. By Margaret Ferguson. 8 3/4” x 5 3/4”. Pp. 256. Illustrations. Hale. 1941. 12s. 6d.

Sons of Sindbad. By Alan Villiers. Pp. xiv + 346. Illustrated. Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd. 20s.

Drinkers of the Wind. By Carl R. Raswan. 9 3/8” x 6 1/4”. Pp. 288. Illustrated. Hutchison. 18s.

The Fire‐Ox and Other Years. By Suydam Cutting. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons.

Helvellyn to Himalaya. Including an Account of the First Ascent of Chomolhari. By E. Spencer Chapman. Pp. xv + 285. With 44 illustrations and 2 maps. London: Chatto and Windus. 1940. 18s.

Assam Adventure. By F. Kingdon Ward. Pp. 304; 16 illustrations, 2 appendixes. Jonathan Cape. 1941. 12s. 6d.

A Long Look at Life. By two Victorians, Lady King‐Stewart, O.B.E., and Miss Ella Christie, F.R.G.S. 8 1/2 x 61/4”. Pp. 256. Illustrations. Seeley Service. 1941. 21s.

The Viceroy and Governor‐General of India. By A. B. Rudra, Ph.D. Pp. xv+ 362. 8 1/2” x 5 3/4”. Milford. Oxford University Press. 1940. Rs. 10.

The Co‐operative Movement in Bengal. By Professor J. P. Niyogi, M.A.(Cal.), Ph.D.(London). 9” x 6 1/4”. Pp. ix + 267. (Macmillan and Co., Ltd.) 10s. 6d.

Twilight in Delhi. By Ahmud Ali. Hogarth Press.

The Red Tortoise and Other Tales of Rural India. Told by N. Gangulee. Pp. 90. The India Society. 1940. 3s. 6d.

When Peacocks Called. By Hilda Seligman. John Lane: Bodley Head.

The Voyage of the “Kaimiloa.” By Eric de Bisschop. Translated from the French by Marc Ceppi. Pp. 310, with illustrations (11 photographs and 1 sketch‐map). London: G. Bell and Sons. 1940. 12s. 6d.

Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China. By Arthur Waley. George Allen and Unwin. 1939.

The Tower of Five Glories. A Study of the Min Chia of Tali, Yunnan. By C. P. Fitzgerald. 8 1/2” x 5 3/4”. Preface and 280 pp. 3 maps. 31 illustrations. Cresset Press. 16s.

The Current War. By Captain Liddell Hart. Hutchison.     

Man on the Spot: Captain George Gracey and British Policy towards the Assyrians, 1917–45

Oman Since 1856: Disruptive Modernization in a Traditional Arab Society. By Robert Geran Landen. Pp. xvi+488. Tables, maps, bibliography, index. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press. 100s.

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British Interests in the Persian Gulf. By Abdul Amir Amin. Pp. vi+164. Map, appendices, bibliography. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 36 guilders.

Lords of the Atlas. The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua 1893–1956. By Gavin Maxwell. Pp. 318. Longmans. 1966. 50s.

Britain and the Persian Gulf, 1894–1914. By Briton Cooper Busch. Pp. x+388. Appendices. Index. University of California Press London: Cambridge University Press. 83s.

Islamic Reform, The Political and Legal Theories of Muhammad Abduh and Rashid Rida. By Malcolm H. Kerr. Pp. 223, bibliog., index. University of California Press. London: Cambridge University Press. 42s.

Political and Social Change in Modern Egypt. (Historical Studies from the Ottoman Conquest to the United Arab Republic). Edited by P. M. Holt, Pp. xx+400, index. Oxford University Press. 70s.

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The Indian Federation. An Exposition and Critical Review. By Sir Shafa'at Ahmad Khan, Litt.D. Pp. xii + 450. 6?” × 9”. Macmillan and Co. 1937. 15s.

The Spirit of Zen. By Alan W. Watts. Wisdom of the East Series. Edited by L. Cranmer‐Byng and Dr. S. A. Katadia. 73/4” × 5”. Pp. 136. John Murray, 1936. 3s. 6d.

When Japan Goes to War.* By O. Tanin and E. Yohan. 8/1/4>” × 5/1/2>”. Pp. 271. Lawrence and Wishart. 5s.

Japan at the Cross Roads. By Walter Smith. Published by Lawrence and Wishart, London. 1936. 3s. 6d.

The Far East Comes Nearer. By H. Hcsscll Tiltman. Pp. 314. Illustrated. London: Jarrolds. 1936. 12s. 6d.

The China Year Book, 1936

Problems of Chinese Education. By Victor Purcell, Ph.D. 8 /3/4>” ×5/3/4>. Pp. viii+261. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., Ltd. 1936. 10s. 6d.

Attack on Everest. By Neil Macintyre. Pp. 172. Methuen. 5s.

Tibetan Journey. By Madame Alexandra David‐Neel. 9” × 5 ?”. Pp. 276. Maps and illustrations. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head. 12s. 6d.

Social Organization and Customary Law of the Nepalese Tribes. By Dr. Leonhard Adam, American Anthropologist. No. 4. 3$

Khyber Caravan: Through Kashmir, Waziristan, Baluchistan and Northern India. By Gordon Sinclair. 8 3/4” × 6”. Pp. xvi+287. Maps. Hurst and Blackett. 12s. 6d.

The Clear Mirror: A Pattern of Life in Goa and in Indian Tibet. By G. E. Hutchinson. 9” × 5 ⁷/_8". Pp. xii+171. Cambridge University Press. 8s. 6d.

Ganésa: A Monograph on the Elephant‐Faced God. By Alice Getty. With an Introduction by Alfred Foucher. Oxford : Clarendon Press. 1936.

Afghanistan. A Brief Survey. By J. D. Ahmada and M. A. Aziz. With a Foreword by Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal. 10” × 7/1/2>". Pp. xx + 159. First published by Dar‐ut‐Talif, Kabul, September, 1934. New impression, Longmans, Green and Co., printers in India, April, 1936. Three maps and seventy illustrations. 12s. 6d. Library edition, 15s. 6d.

The Harēm. By N. M. Penzer. Pp. 260. Index. Map. Forty‐two plates. Harrap and Co. 1936. 21s.

Moslem Women Enter a New World. By Ruth Frances Woodsmall. Publications of the American University of Beirut, Social Science Series, No. 14. London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. 12s. 6d.

The Effects of Centralization on Education in Modern Egypt. By Russell Gait, Ph.D. 9?"× 6”. Pp. vi + 134. Cairo: Department of Education, American University. 1936.

The Nile : From the Source to Egypt. The Life‐Story of a River. By Emil Ludwig. Translated by Mary Lindsay. London: Allen and Unwin. 1936. Price 16s.

Sea Adventures. By Henry de Monfried. Translated by Helen Buchanan Bell. Thirteen illustrations and endpaper map. Methuen and Co., Ltd. 10s. 6d.

The Dangerous Sea: The Mediterranean. By George Slocombc. 8/3/4> × 5/3/4>”. Pp. xxx+286. Hutchinson. 1936. 10s. 6d.

Aden Protectorate: A Report on the Social, Economic and Politica Condition of the Hadhramaut. By W. H. Ingrams, O.B.E. Colonial No. 123. Pp. 1–127. With map. H.M. Stationery Office. 3s.

The Arabian Knight: Sir Richard Burton. By Seton Dearden. Pp.334. Arthur Barker. 12s. 6d.

The Gates of Jerusalem. By Jacqueline Cockburn. With an appreciation by Sir Ronald Storrs, K.C.M.G., C.B.E. Pp. x + 300. John Murray. 7s. 6d.

Who is Prosperous in Palestine ? Labour Pamphlet No. 7.

The Palestine Mandate : Invalid and Impracticable. By W. F. Boustany. Palestine Information Centre. 1936. IS. 6d.