Obituaries

Reports on Agricultural Development and Land Settlement in Palestine. By Lewis French, C.I.E., C.B.E. 13¼" × 8¼". Pp.112. Map. Jerusalem: Issued by the Palestine Government. December 23, 1931. 2s.

Native Education: Ceylon, Java, Formosa, the Philippines, French Indo‐China, and British Malaya. By the Hon. H. A.Wyndham. Oxford University Press. 10s. 6d.

The Indian Tangle. By Sir Albion Banerji, C.S.I., C.I.E. With a Foreword by the Rt. Hon. Earl Winterton, P.C., M.P. 7¾” × 5¼”. Pp.255. Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.

The Key to Freedom and Security in India. By an Indian Student of Political Science. With a Foreword by Professor Arnold Toynbee. 7½” × 5”. Pp. 297. Oxford University Press. 6s.

Sir Anthony Sherley and his Persian Adventure. Edited by Sir E. Denison Ross. The Broadway Travellers Series. Edited by Sir E. Denison Ross and Eileen Power. 9” × 5¾.” Pp. xxxviiii + 293. Maps and illustrations. London: Routledge. 1933. 12s. 6d.

The Shîte Religion: A History of Islam in Persia and Irak. By Dwight M. Donaldson. 10” × 6¼”. Pp. xxvi + 393. Illustrations. Luzac's Oriental Religions Series. Vol. VI. London: Luzac. 1933.

Ibn Yamin: Persice Ibn‐i‐Yamin. 100 short poems, the Persian text with paraphrase. By Brigadier‐General E. H. Rodwell, C.B., I.A. (ret.) 10¼” × 7”. Pp. xiv + 48. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner. 1933. 12s. 6d.

Caravan Cities. By M. Rostovtzeff. Translated by D. and T. Talbot Rice. Pp. xiv + 232. Plates xxxv., six figures in the text. Five maps and plans. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press. 1932. 15s.

Ibn Sa'ud — The Puritan King of Arabia. By Kenneth Williams. 8¼ × 5¾ Pp. 299. Frontispiece. Maps. Jonathan Cape. 8s. 6d. net.

King Faisal of ‘Iraq. By Mrs. Steuart Erskine. With an appreciation by Field‐Marshal Viscount Allenby, G.C.B., G.C.M.G. Foreword by H.E. Ja'far Pasha al Askari. 9½ × 6¼”. Pp. 288. Illustrations. Hutchinson. 18s. net.

L'ltalia e la Nuova Turchia. By Ugo Bassi. 1932. Modena: E. Bassi e Nipoti.

L'ltalia e l'Arabia Centrale. By Ugo Bassi. 1932. Modena: E. Bassi e Nipoti.

La Fine del Mandato Sull'Iraq e una Preoccupazione per L'ltalia. By Romolo Tritonj. Oriente Moderno, April, 1933.

Cairo to Persia. By Owen Tweedie. 9½” × 6¼”. Pp. x + 288. Illustrations. Maps. Jarrolds. 1933. 18s.

Murray's Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma and Ceylon Including all British India, the Portuguese and French Possessions, and the Indian States. 7¼” × 4¾"Pp. cxliv + 812. Maps and plans. Murray. 1933. 24s.

The Kabul Magazine Year Book. By the Kabul Magazine Literary Society. Printed in Persian with numerous photographic illustrations and coloured plates. 10¼” × 8”. Pp. 322.

Sabre and Saddle. By Lieut.‐Colonel E. A. W. Stotherd. With a Foreword by Sir Percy Sykes, K.C.I.E., C.B., C.M.G. 8¾” × 6". Pp. 302. Illustrations, maps, plans. Seeley, Service. 1933.

Indian Idealism. By Surendranath Dasgupta, M.A., Ph.D., Principal Sanskrit College, Calcutta. 8¾” × 5¾”. Pp. xxiii + 206. Cambridge University Press. 1933. 10s. 6d.

Kumbum Dschamba Ling Das Kloster der hunderttausend Bilder Maitreyas. Ein Ausschnitt aus Leben und Lehre des heutigen Lamaismus Mit 208 Abbildungen und Kunstdrucktafeln nach eigenen Aufnahmen, 412 Skizzen des Verfassers im Text, einer Lichtdruck‐und ciner Buntdrucktafel sowie einer Klosterkarte. Pp. xv, 555 + [1]. In Kommission bei F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig. 1933.

Buddhists and Glaciers of Western Tibet. By Giotto Dainelli. 9¾” × 6¼”. Pp. xiii + 304. Thirty‐two plates. Map. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner. 1933. 18s.

Riddles of the Gobi Desert. By Sven Hedin. Demy 8vo. Pp. 392. 24 plates and map. Routledge.

India House Library: A Short Catalogue. Pp. ix + 533. 4to. Office of the High Commissioner. 1933.

Gordon in China. By Bernard M. Allen. 8” × “5½. Pp. ix + 222. Frontispiece. Maps. Macmillan and Co. 7s. 6d. net.

The Menace of Japan. By T.O'Conroy. 8¾ × 5¾ Pp.294. Illustrations. Maps. Hurst and Blackett. 12s. 6d. net.

The House of Exile. By Nora Waln. London: The Cresset Press, Ltd. 1933. 16s.

A Brief Summe of Geographie. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society. Second Series. No. LXIX. Edited with an introduction and notes by E. G. R. Taylor. 9” × 6". Pp. lvi + 210. Map. £111s. 6d.

Storm Centres in the Near East. By Sir Robert Windham Graves, K.C.M.G. Pp. 362, with illustrations. Hutchinson and Co. 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.

The East India Company and the Economy of Bengal from 1704 to 1740. By Sukumar Bhattacharya. Luzac and Co. Pp. 240. Maps and appendices. 21s. (cloth).

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.     

A Soviet paradise à L'Américaine

An Examination of the Mystic Tendencies in Islam in the light of the Qur'an and Traditions. By M. M.Zuhúruddin Ahmad, M.A. LL.B., Professor of Logic and Philosophy at the Ismail College, Andheri (Bombay). 9” x 5½”. Pp. 248. Published by the author, Pali Road, Bandra (Bombay). 1932. Obtained in England for 10s. 6d.

The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. By Sir Muhammad Iqbal. 9” x 5½”. Pp. 192. Oxford University Press. London: Humphrey Milford. 1934. 7^s. 6d. net.

The Suez Canal: Its Past, Present and Future. By Lieut.‐Colonel Sir Arnold Wilson, K.C.I.E. 10” x 7". Pp. xv+224. Map. Oxford University Press. 1933. 15s.

The Capitulatory Regime of Turkey: Its History, Origin and Nature. By Nasim Sousa. 8½” x 5¾”. Pp. xxiii+378. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.

Catalogue of Wall‐Paintings from Ancient Shrines in Central Asia and Sistan. Recovered by Sir Aurel Stein, K.C.I.E., described by Fred H. Andrews, O.B.E., under the orders of the Government of India. Delhi: Manager of Publications.

The History of Buddhist Thought. By Edward J. Thomas, M.A., D.Litt. 9½” x 6½”. Pp. xvi+314. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., Ltd. 1933. 15s.

The Eclipse of Christianity in Asia. From the time of Muhammad until the Fourteenth Century. By L. E. Browne. 9” x 6”. Pp. 198. Map. Cambridge University Press. 1933. 10s. 6d.

Oriental Studies. Edited by Jai Dastur Cursetji Pavry, with a Foreword by A. V.Williams, in honour of Cursetji Erachji Pavry. 9¾” x 6½”. Pp. xv+503. Frontispiece. Oxford University Press. 1934. 50s. net.

A History of Exploration. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day. By Brigadier‐General Sir Percy Sykes, K.C.I.E., C.B., C.M.G. 10” x 6”. Pp. xiv+374. Coloured frontispiece, plates, and maps. Routledge. 1934. 25s.

Peaks and Plains of Central Asia. By Colonel Reginald C. F. Schomberg. 8¾” x 5¾”. Pp. 288. Illustrations and three maps. London: Martin Hopkinson. 1933. 15s. net.

” La Croisière Jaune.” The Citroën‐Haardt Expedition through Central Asia. By Georges Le Fevre. Pp. xli + 342. 123 photographs. Plates. Maps. Paris. 1933. Edition de Luxe.

Le Pasteur de Tribus. Par Alexandre Syline. Paris: Librairie Gallimard. 1932.

First Russia, then Tibet. By Robert Byron. 9½” x 6¾”. Pp. xvi + 328. Illustrations. Macmillan. 15s.

The White Armies of Russia. The Chronicle of Counter‐Revolution and Allied Intervention. By George Stewart. 8” x 6”. Pp. xiii + 469. Maps and illustrations. New York: Macmillan Co. 21s.

Dans les Coulisses du Kremlin. By S. Dmitrievsky. Translated from the Russian into French by René le Grand. 7” x 4¾”. Pp. vii + 240. Paris: Lib Plon. 12 fr.

Foreign Investments in China. By C. F. Remer. 8¾” x 6”. Pp. xxi + 708. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1933. 25s.

Japan. By F. C. Jones, M.A. 7½” x 5”. Pp. viii+133. Maps. Modern State Series No. 1. General Editor, R. B. Mowat. Arrowsmith. 3s. 6d.

The Hundred Names. By Dr. Henry H. Hart. Published by the University of California Press and the Cambridge University Press. 1933. 11s. 6d. net.

Something Happened. By M. Cable and F. French. Pp. ii + 320. Illustrations. Map. Hodder and Stoughton. 5s.

The Jungle in Sunlight and Shadow. By F. W. Champion. 10” x 7¾”. Pp. xvi + 270. Illustrations. Chatto and Windus. 21s.

James Silk Buckingham, 1786–1855. A Social Biography. By Ralph E. Turner. 8½” x 5¾”. Pp. viii+463. Plates. Williams and Norgate. 21s.

On Hill and Plain. By Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, K.G. A Viceroy's Recollections of Delightful Days of Sport in India. 8” x 5¼”. Pp. xii + 110. Illustrations. John Murray. 1933. 7s. 6d.

Le Voyage d'Un Pelerin Chinois dans l'Inde des Bouddhas. Précédé d'un exposé des doctrines de l'Inde Antique sur La Vie et La Mort. By Henri Valentino. Paris. Editions G.P. Maisonneuve. 3 Rue de Sabot. 18 francs.

Indian India. By C. W. Waddington, C.I.E., M.V.O. London: Jarrolds. 1933.

Indo‐China: A Sportsman's Opportunity. By Archibald Harrison. 8½” x 5½”. Pp. 7+157. Plates and maps. Plymouth: Mayflower Press.

Secrets of the Red Sea. By Henry de Monfreid. Translated by Helen Buchanan Bell. 8½” x 5½”. Pp. vii + 317. Sixteen pages illustrated. Faber and Fabcr. 1933. 12s. 6d.

Into the Sun. By Frieda Das. 7½” x 5”. Pp. 312. Dent. 7s. 6d.

The Assyrian Tragedy. Annemasse, February, 1934.

The Naked Mountain. By E. Knowlton. Putnam.

First over Everest. By Air Commodore Fellowes, D.S.O., L. V. Stewart Blacker, Col. P. T. Etheton, Marquis of Clydesdale. Foreword by John Buchan, and account of the filming by G. Barkas. 9¾” x 6½”.Illustrations, maps, diagrams. Pp. xix + 279. Lane, Bodley Head. 12s. 6d.     

A Kurdish Lampoonist: Shaikh Riza Talabani

Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines, or The Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path, according to the late Lama Kazi Sawa‐Samdup's English rendering. Arranged and edited with Introductions and Annotations to serve as a Commentary by W. Y. Evans‐Wentz. With Foreword by Dr. R. R. Marett. London: Oxford University Press (Humphrey Milford). 1935. Pp. xxiv + 389. 16s.

India's New Constitution. A Survey of the Government of India Act, 1935. By J. P. Eddy, ex‐Judge of the High Court, Madras, and F. H. Lawton, B.A. (Cantab.). Macmillan. 6s.

Popular Hinduism, the Religion of the Masses. By L. S. S. O'Malley, C.I.E., I.C.S. (retired). Pp. viii+246. Cambridge University Press. 7s.6d.net.

Financial Problems of Indian States under Federation. By Sahibzada A. Wajid Khan. With a Preface by Hugh Dalton. 8?"×5¾”. Pp. xvi+256. Jarrolds. 8s. 6d.

The Brahui Problem. By Sir Dcnys Bray, K.C.S.I. Etymological Vocabulary. (Part II. of the Brahui Language.) Delhi: Manager of Publications. 13s. 6d.

Tungkhungia Buranji. A History of Assam, 1681–1826. Edited by S. K. Bhuyan, Honorary Assistant Director of Historical and Antiquarian Studies, Assam. 5?"x 8?”. Pp. xxxii + 262. Oxford University Press. 15s.

Wissenschaftliche ergebnisse der Niederländeschen Expeditionen in der KaraKoram und die angrenzender Gebiets in der jahren 1922, 1925, und 1929–1930. Band I. By Dr. Ph. C. Visser und Jenny Visser‐Hooft. (Leipzig, In kommission bei F. A. Brockhaus.)

Secrets of Tibet. By H. E. Giuseppi Tucci and Captain E. Ghersi. Translated from the Italian by M. A. Johnston. 8¾” x 5¾”*. Pp. xiv + 210. Map; illustrations. Blackie. 15s.

Hui‐Hui. By Wilhelm Filchner, Dr.phil.h.c. Pp. 423, with map. Published by Peter Oestergaard, Berlin‐Schoneberg. 1928.

Om Mani Padme Hum. By Wilhelm Filchner. Pp. ix+352, with map and numerous photographs by Jack Mathewson. Published by F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig. 1929.

Soviet Trade from the Pacific to the Levant. With an Economic Study of the Soviet Far Eastern Region. By Violet Conolly. Oxford University Press. London: Humphrey Milford. 1935.

Ziya Gökalp. Étude biographique publiée à l'occasion de l'anniversaire de la mort de Ziya Gökalp. Paris: Editions Berger‐Levrault.

Modern Persia and Her Educational System. By Issa Khan Sadiq, Ph.D. Pp. 125. New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers’ College, Columbia University. 1931.

The Journal of Robert Stodart. With an Introduction and Notes by Sir E. Denison Ross. 6½” x 5¼”. Pp. 128. Map. Luzac. 1935. 5s.

Palestine of the Arabs. By Mrs. Steuart Erskine. 8?” x 6¾”*. Pp. 256. Illustrations. Harrap. 10s. 6d.

The Doctrine of the Sûfîs. (Kitâb al‐ta'arruf li madhhab ahl al‐tasawwuf.) Translated from the Arabic of Abû Bakr Al‐Kalabâdhî by Arthur John Arberry, M.A., Assistant Keeper of Oriental Books and MSS. in the India Office, formerly Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. 8?"x5¾”. Pp. xviii+174. Cambridge University Press. 10s. 6d.

An Early Mystic of Baghdad. A study of the life and teaching of Härith b. Asad al‐Muhäsibi. By Margaret Smith, M.A., Ph.D. Pp. 311. London: The Sheldon Press. 1935. 15s.

Palestine Caravan. By Moshe Smilansky. Crown 8vo. Pp. 276. Mcthucn. 1935. 7s. 6d.

Galilee Galloper. By Douglas V. Duff. 8?"” x 5?"”. Pp. 298. Frontispiece. John Murray. 1935. 10s. 6d.

Rapport sur le Pèlerinage au Hedjaz de L'Hégire, 1353 (A.D. 1935). (Conseil Sanitaire Maritime et Quarantenaire d'Egypte.)

The First Grossing of South‐Western Arabia. By Hans Helfritz. Geographical Review, published by the American Geographical Society of New York, July, 1935.

General Rigby, Zanzibar and the Slave Trade. By Mrs. Charles E. B. Russell. 8¾” x 5½”. Pp. 404. Allen and Unwin. 16s.

Transcaucasia: An Example of Bolshevik Conquest Policy. This article in the German periodical Ost Europa deserves notice. It is by Professor Gotthard Jäschke, whose contribution to Die Welt des Islams, headed “The Road to Russo‐Turkish Friendship,” was reviewed in this Journal last quarter.

Glory and Downfall: Reminiscences of a Russian General Staff Officer. By General P. A. Polovtsoff. Pp. 359. With index and fifteen illustrations and a map of the Caucasus on the end‐paper. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. 1935. 15s.

Soviet Geography. The New Economic and Industrial Distributions of the U.S.S.R. By N. Mikhaylov. With a Foreword by the Right Hon. Sir Halford Mackinder. London: Methuen and Co. 10s. 6d. net.

Dawn Over Samarkand. The Rebirth of Central Asia. By Joshua Kunitz. Pp. 348. New York: Covici Friede, Publishers. $3. No date.

Changing Asia. By Egon Erwin Kisch. English version by Rita Reil. Pp. 267. Map; illustrations. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $3.

Clashing Tides of Colour. By Lothrop Stoddard. 8¼|” x 5¾”. Pp. 414. Scribner's. 1935. 10s. 6d.

North to the Orient. By Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Large Crown 8vo. Pp. 248. Chatto and Windus. 1935. 10s. 6d.

The Problem of the Far East. By Sobei Mogi and H. Vere Redman. 7½” x 5¼”. Pp. 352. Victor Gollancz, Ltd. 1935. 5s.

Japan and the Pacific. By Nathaniel Peffer. 9” x 5¾”. Pp. 256. Hamish Hamilton. 10s. 6d.

People in China : Thirty‐two Photographic Studies from Life. By Ellen Thorbecke. With an Introduction by Dr. W. J. R. Thorbecke, formerly Netherlands Minister to China. George G. Harrap and Co., Ltd., London, Bombay, Sydney. Price 15s. net.

The Romance of the Western Chamber (Hsi Hsiang Chi): A Chinese Play written in the Thirteenth Century. Translated by S. I. Hsiung. With a Preface by Gordon Bottomley. London: Methuen and Co., Ltd. Price 8s. 6d. net.

China Changes. By G. J. Yorke. Pp. 334. Jonathan Cape, Ltd. 1935. 10s. 6d.

Chinese Art. Edited by Leigh Ashton. Kcgan Paul. Paper 2s. 6d., cloth 3s. 6d.

Beauty in Exile : Chao Chun. By Shu Chiung (Madame Wu Lien‐teh).

The Real Abyssinia. By Colonel C. F. Rey, C.M.G. 8¾ × 5¾”. Pp. 291. Illustrations and map. Seeley Service. 10s. 6d.

England, Italy, Abyssinia. By Major‐General H. Rowan‐Robinson. 8?” x 5¾”. Pp. viii + 148. Illustrations. Maps. Clowes. 5s.

Women Called Wild. By Rosita Forbes. Grayson and Grayson. 12s. 6d.

Sixty Years in the East. By Sir William Willcocks, K.C.M.G. 8¾” × 5¾”. Pp. iii+338. Blackwood. 15s.     

A democratic paradox: The communalisation of politics in Ceylon, 1911-1948

Contributions to the Anthropology of Iran. By Henry Field, Curator of Physical Anthropology, University of Chicago, December, 1939. Vol. 29, No. I, 508 pp., 22 text figures, 1 map. 9½” × 6½”. $5.50. Vol. 29, No. II, 198 pp., 4 text figures, 144 plates. 9½” × 6½”. $2.25. Maps A and B, Distribution of Tribes in Iraq and Western Iran, 10” × 24½”, with list of tribal names.

Once in Sinai. By J. M. C. Plowden (Madame Charles Jullien), with a foreword by Major C. S. Jarvis. 9” × 6”. XXV. + 302 pp. 18 Illustrations. 7 Sketch Maps and 1 fold‐in Map. Methuen and Co., Ltd. 1940. 12s. 6d.

La Turquie, Centre de Gravité des Balkans et du Proche Orient. By Gerard Tongas. Préface de S. E. M. Suad Davas. Pp. 276. 7¾” × 5¾”. Paris : Geuthner. 1939.

Gelawêj (Sirius). A Kurdish literary and cultural monthly magazine, 9¾” × 6¾” each number about 64 pp. Baghdad: Najah Press, December, 1939; January and February, 1940.

Rome and China. By F. J. Teggart. Pp. xii, 245; 14 Maps, 9½” × 6½”. University of California Press. 1939. 18s.

Mohammed and Charlemagne. By Henri Pirenne. Translated by Bernard Miall. Pp. 293. Allen and Unwin. London. 1939. 10s. 6d. net.

Jenghiz Khan. By C. C. Walker, Squadron‐Leader Royal Canadian Air Force. 10” × 6½”. Pp. 215. 7 Maps in Colour. London : Luzac. 1940. 17s. 6d.

What are the Jews? Their Significance and Position in the Modern World. By Rabbi Israel I. Mattuck, A.M., D.H.L. 7½” × 5½” Pp. 256. Hodder and Stoughton. 5s.

The Throne of the Gods. By A. Heim and A. Gansser. Translated by Eden and Freda Paul. 22 Plates, 18 Sketches in text, 11 musical items, and Relief Map. 233 pp. of text. 9½” × 6¼”. Macmillan. 21s

Cultural Relations on the Kansu‐Tibetan Border. By Robert B. Ekvall. University of Chicago Press. Pp. 87. $1.50.

A Cavalier in China. By Colonel A. W. S. Wingate, C.M.G. With a Foreword by Sir Francis Younghusband, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E. Illustrated. Pp. 327. Grayson. 1940. 15s.

Dersu the Trapper. Exploring, trapping, hunting in Ussuria. Translated from the Russian of V. K. 8½” × 6”. Secker and Warburg.

Shanghai and Tientsin. By F. C. Jones‐ With the co‐operation of certain members of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. 9” × 6”. Pp. x + 182. Five plans. Oxford University Press. 7s. 6d.

Warning Lights of Asia. By Gerald Samson. With 32 plates and 7 maps. Pp. xvii + 311. Robert Hale. 1940. 15s.

Memorandum on the Kahilu Sanctuary. By D'Arcy Weatherbe. (Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, Vol. XLI., No. I, August, 1939.)

The Arabic Listener. Published by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Printed in England by Stephen Austin and Sons, Ltd.

Climate and Ecliptic Tilt. By Brigadier N. M. McLeod, from the R.A. Journal, April, 1940.

A Winter in Arabia. By Freya Stark. 9¼” × 6½” Pp. xii + 328. Illustrations from the author's own collection of photographs and 3 maps. London : John Murray. 1940. 16s.     

Iraq

Lord Wavell (1883–1941). A military biography. By Major‐General R. J. Collins. Pp. 488. Illustrations. Hodder and Stoughton. 1948. 30s.

Meet the Arab. By John Van Ess. Pp. 228. Illustrated. The John Day Co., New York, 1943; Museum Press, London, 1947. 12s. 6d.

Introducing Yemen. By A. Faroughy. Pp. 123; 14 illustrations; 2 maps, 4½” × 7½. New York (Orientalia Inc.). 1947. $250 (14s. in U.K.).

Soviet Jewry, Palestine and the West. By Walter Zander. Pp. 109. 5” × 7¾”. Gollancz. 1947. 6s. net.

Arab Jewish Unity. By Judah Magnes and Martin Buber. Pp. 96. 5” × 7¾. Gollancz. 1947. 5s. net.

The Future of Palestine. Prepared by the Arab Office, London. August, 1947. Paper cover. Pp.166. 5¾” × 8”.

Foundations in the Dust. A story of Mesopotamian Exploration. By Seton Lloyd. Pp. xii and 237. Oxford University Press. 1947. 15s.

Arabian Days. An autobiography. By H. StJ. Philby. Illustrated. Pp. 336. London: Robert Hale. 1948: 21s.

The Alphabet. Dr. David Diringer. Hutchinson. 1948. 50s.

Mount Everest, 1938. By H. W. Tilman. Cambridge University Press. 1948.

Burmese Family. By Mi Mi Khaing. Illustrated by E. G. N. Kinch. Pp. 138. Longmans, Green and Co.

Journey to the End of an Era. An autobiography. By Melvin Hall. Pp. 438. 9” × 6”. Scribner, New York. 1947.

Raffles of Singapore. By Sir Reginald Coupland, K.C.M.G., C.I.E. Third Edition. Pp. 144. Collins. 1946. 7s. 6d.     

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.     

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Turkistan Tumult. By Aitchen K. Wu. With illustrations and 2 maps. 8½” × 5½”. Pp. xiii+279. Methuen and Co. 12s. 6d.

Soviets in the Arctic. An historical, economic and political study of the Soviet advance into the Arctic. By T. A. Taracouzio. 9½” × 6¼”. Pp. xvi+563. 7 maps. Macmillan. 1939. 32s. 6d.

Revealing India's Past. A Co‐operative Record of Archaeological Conservation and Exploration in India and Beyond. By Twenty‐two Authorities—British, Indian, and Continental. With a foreword by A. Foucher. Edited by Sir John Cumming, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., M.A. 8½” × 6¾”. Pp. xx+374. Thirty‐three plates and map. The India Society. 1939. 25s.

Islam. By Henri Masse. Translated from the French by Halide Edib. Pp. 270. Putnam. $2.50.

Petra, the Rock City of Edom. By Dr. A. M. Murray. Pp. x+210. Thirty‐two plates; two sketch maps. Blackic. 1939.     

THE POLITICS OF CRIME IN TAIWAN,HONG KONG AND MACAO

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Christianity and the Government of India. By Arthur Mayhew, C.I.E. Pp. 260. Faber and Gwyer, Ltd. 12s. 6d.

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Arabia of the Wahhabis. By H. St. J. B. Philby. 5¼×9. Pp. ix+422. Illustrations and plans. Constable. 1929.

Sir Edward Hornby: An Autobiography. Pp. x+396. 6×9. Constable. 18s. 1928.

Foreign Diplomacy in China, 1894–1900. A Study in Political and Economic Ralations with China. By Philip Joseph, LL.B. (McGill), Ph.D. (London). With an Introduction by Sir A. Frederick Whyte, K.C.S.I., LL.D. 8¾×6. 458 pp. George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. 16s.

Modern Chinese Civilization. By Dr. A. F. Legendre. Translated from the French by Elsie Martin Jones. (London: Jonathan Cape, 30, Bedford Street, W.C. 2.)

The Foundations of Modern China. By T'ang Leang‐li. With a Preface by Wang Ching‐Wei. 5¾×8”. Pp. x+290. (Published by Noel Douglas.) Price 12s. 6d.

The Campaign in Gallipoli. By Hans Kannengiesser. With 28 Illustrations and 3 Maps. Hutchinson. Price 21s.

Siberian Days. By Algernon Noble. 5¾×9. Pp. 223. Photographs. Witherby. 1928. 12s. 6d.

Desert Blades. By Estore. 5¼ × 7½. Pp. 254. Matthews and Marrots. 1928. 7s. 6d.

Leipzig to Cabul. By G. Stratil‐Sauer; translated by Frederic Whyte. With fifty illustrations. (Hutchinson.) Price 18s.

The Soul of China. By Richard Wilhelm. The text translated by John Holroyd Reece; the poems by Arthur Waley. 5¾×8¾. 382 pp. Jonathan Cape. 15s.

A History of Persian Navigation. By Hadi Hasan. Methuen and Co. 1928. £5 net.     

General

The Arab Awakening. By George Antonius. 8¾” × 5?”. Pp. 472. Five maps. Hamish Hamilton. 1938. 15s.

Freedom of conscience in the new near east. Some Aspects of Religious Liberty of Nationals in the Near East. A Collection of Documents. By Helen Clarkson Davis. Pp. xviii + 182 and two maps. New York and London: Harper and Brothers. 1938.

Palestine of the Crusades. A Map of the Country on scale 1: 350,000, with Historical Introduction and Gazetteer. Jerusalem : Survey of Palestine. Price 5s.     

Some economic problems of Persia

The Home Letters of T. E. Lawrence and His Brothers. Oxford : Basil Blackwell. 1954. Pp. xvi + 731. Photos. 63s.

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.

The Transfer of Power in India. By E. W. R. Lumby. George Allen and Unwin. 1954. Pp. 274; 2 maps (of the Indian Empire and of India and Pakistan before and after August 15, 1947). 18s.

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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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.     

Anglo‐Russian relationships

Trial and Error. By Dr. C. Weizmann. Pp. 608. Hamish Hamilton. 1949. 21s.

China: The Far East and the Future. By G. Keeton. 2nd Edition. xii and 511 pp. Stevens (Chatham House), 1949. 21s.

The Marichurian Crisis, 1931–2. By Sara R. Smith. Pp. 281. Columbia University Press. 1948. $3.75.

Teach Yourself Chinese. By H. R. Williamson. English University Press. Pp. viii + 530. 7s. 6d.

The 3,000 Commonest Chinese Terms. By Ronald Hall, C.B.E., and Neville Whymant, Ph. D., Litt. D. Luzac. Pp. viii+211. 15s.

How Russia Transformed Her Colonial Empire: A Challenge to Imperialist Powers. By George Padmore. Dennis Dobson, Ltd., London. Pp. xx+185.. 7s. 6d.

Assam Valley. By R. Muirhead Thomson. Pp. 96. Illustrations. Luzac. 10s. 6d.

Mohammedanism. By Professor H. A. R. Gibb. (Home University Library.) Pp. 206. Oxford University Press. 1949. 5s.

Free Will and Predestination in Early Islam. By W. Montgomery Watt. Pp. x + 181. Bibliography. Index. 8½”×5¾”. Luzac, London. 15s.

Life in Modern Turkey. By E. W. F. Tomlin. Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd. Pp. 94. 15 Illustrations. Map. 7¼” × 4¾”.

Three Years in the Levant. By Richard Pearse. Pp.294. 12s. 6d. Macmillan and Co. 1949.

Bird of Time. By Melvin Hall. Pp. 307. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 1949. $3.50.     

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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.     

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Raw Materials and International Control. By H. R. G. Greaves. Pp. vi. +166. London: Methuen. 5s.

Soviet Money and Finance. By L.E.Hubbard. 8? × /3/4>”. Pp. xx+339. Macmillan. 1936. 12s. 6d.

Big Horse's Flight. By Sven Hedin. Translated by F. H. Lyon. Pp. 248. Illustrations and map. London: Macmillan and Co. 1936. 21s.

South to Samarkand. By Ethel Mannin. Pp. 355, 20 illustrations and sketch maps. London: Jarrolds. 1936. Price 12s. 6d.

Sven Hedin's Archæological Collections from Khotan. By Gösta Montell. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, No. 7. Stockholm. 1936.

The Quest for Cathay. By Brigadier‐General Sir Percy Sykes, K.C.I.E., C.B., C.M.G. Pp. xii+280. A. and C. Black. 15s.

Tamerlane or Timur the Great Amir. Translated by J. H. Sanders, from the Arabic Life by Ahmed ibn Arabshah. 8vo. Pp. xvii + 341. With a map and a frontispiece. Luzac and Co. 1936. 12s. 6d. net.

Cronica de Dom João de Castro. By Leonardo Nunes. Edited with an Introduction by Professor J. D. M. Ford. Demi‐oct. Pp. xxviii+241. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1936. 10s. 6d.

The Making of Modern Turkey. By Sir Harry Luke, C.M.G. 8/1/2>” × 6”. Pp. viii + 248. Frontispiece. Macmillan. 1936. 10s. 6d.

Quinze Ans de Mandat; I'?uvre Francaise en Syrie et au Liban. Anonymous. Pp. 69.

Euphrates Exile. By A. D. Macdonald. 7/3/4>" × 5/1/4>”. Pp. 301. Illustrated. G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. 7s. 6d.

Richard Burton, Explorer. By Hugh J. Schonfield. 8/3/4>” × 5/3/4>”. Pp. 303. Frontispiece. London: H. Joseph. 1936. 15s.

Hebrew Origins. By Th. J. Meek. The Haskell Lectures for 1933–1934. Pp. viii+219. New York: Harper and Brothers. 1936. $2.

Thy Neighbour. By Lord Melchett. 7/3/4> × 5. Pp.284. 2 illustrations and 2 maps. London: Muller. 1936. 7s. 6d.

A Plan for Lasting Peace in Palestine. By Nevill Barbour. Jerusalem. 1936. Equivalent 1s.

A Palestinian Kaleidoscope, “ Palestine on the Eve.” By Ladislas Farago. Two maps. Sixty‐three illustrations. Putnam. 10s. 6d.

New Zionist Publications—No. 2. New Zionist Press, 47, Finchley Road, London, N.W. 8. 1s.

From Alexander Burnes to Frederick Roberts. A Survey of Imperial Frontier Policy. By J. L. Morison.

The 1st Battalion Duchess of Connaught's Own (late 124th D.C.O. Baluchistan Infantry) and the 10th Battalion (late 2/124th Baluchistan Infantry), the 10th Baluchistan Regiment. By O. A. Chaldecott. 8/3/4>” × 5?”. Pp. xiv+250. Eleven maps, two portraits. (Lieut.‐Col. J. N. Soden, Baluchistan Regiment, Karachi.)

Diamonds and Dust; India through French Eyes. By Baron Jean Pellenc. 9” × 6”. Pp. 306. Illustrations and map. London: Murray. 1936. 10s. 6d.

The Tiger Hunters. By Brigadier‐General R. G. Burton. 8¾> × 5¾>. Pp. xvi+225+xxxii. 16 illustrations. Hutchinson. 12s. 6d.

Honoria Lawrence : A Fragment of Indian History. By Maud Diver. Pp. 524. John Murray. 16s.

Scott of the Shan Hills: Orders and Impressions. Edited by G. E. Mitton (Lady Scott). 9 × 6. Pp. 333. Illustrations and maps. London: John Murray. 15s.

Return to Malaya. By R. H. Bruce Lockhart. Pp. i+426. Putnam. 10s. 6d.

Far East in Ferment. By Guenther Stein. Methuen. 10s. 6d.

Key Economic Areas in Chinese History. By Ch'ao‐ting Chi, Ph.D. George Allen and Unwin, Ltd.

China's Red Army Marches. By Agnes Smedley. 8? × 5/1/2>? Pp. xxii+311. London: Lawrence and Wishart, Ltd. 5s.

"Living China”: Modern Chinese Short Stories. Compiled and edited by Edgar Snow. With an Introduction by the Editor and an Essay on Modern Chinese Literature by Nym Wales. 8? × 5”. Pp. 355. Frontispiece. London: Harrap. 1936. 8s.

River of Golden Sand. By Thomas Woodroofe. 8/3/4>” × 5/1/2>”. Pp.325. Faber and Faber, Ltd. 8s. 6d. net.

Manchoukuo: Jewel of Asia. By D. M. B. Collier and Lieut.‐Colonel C. L. E. Malone. 8/3/4> × 5/3/4>”. Pp. iv+267. Sixteen photographs. Allen and Unwin, Ltd. 12s. 6d. net.

When Japan Goes to War. By O. Tanin and E. Yohan. 8/1/4>” × 5/1/2>”. Pp. 271. London: Lawrence and Wishart. 1936. 5s.

Japan : Recollections and Impressions. By Grace James. Pp. 285. Illustrated. George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. 1936.

Militarism and Foreign Policy in Japan. By E. E. N. Causton. George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. 7s. 6d.

Stalking in the Himalayas and Northern India. By Lieut.‐Colonel C. E. Stockley, D.S.O. Pp. 250. Illustrated. Herbert Jenkins. 15s.     

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.     

Sinai: With special reference to the forty years’ wandering of Israel

Portrait of the Dalai Lama. By Sir Charles Bell, K.C.I.E., C.M.G. Pp. 414. 49 illustrations. 2 maps. William Collins. 1946. 21s.

Rural Education and Welfare in the Middle East. By H. B. Allen. H.M. Stationery Office, is. 6d.

Nisi Dominus : A Survey of the Palestine Controversy. By Nevill Barbour. Pp. 248; 3 maps. Harrap and Co. 8s. 6d.

The Palestine Problem. By Lieut.‐Colonel R. B. Williams‐Thompson. Four maps. Demy 8vo. Andrew Melrose, Ltd. 1946. 12s. 6d.

Syria. By Robin Fedden. Robert Hale. Pp. 287; 32 illustrations. 1946. 21s. net.

Arabia Ph?nix. By Gerald de Gaury. Pp. 169; 64 illustrations. Harrap. 1946. 10s. 6d.

New Yezidi Texts from Beled Sihjar, ‘Iraq. By Anis Frayha. Reprint from Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 66, No. 1. 1946.

Twin Rivers. By Seton Lloyd. Pp. 230; 12 illustrations; 4 maps. Oxford University Press. 1945. 10s. 6d.

Four Studies in Loyalty. Christopher Sykes. Pp. 224. Collins. 12s. 6d.

Indian Route March. By Louis Hagen. 7½”×5”. Pp. 192. Pilot Press, Ltd. 1946. 7s. 6d. net.

Asiatic Jones. The life and influence of Sir William Jones (1746–1794). Pioneer of Indian studies. By A. J. Arberry, Litt.D. 1946. Published for the British Council by Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd. Pp. 39; 9 illustrations; bibliography.

Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines. By René Guénon. Translated by Marco Pallis. Pp. 351. Luzac and Co. 1946. 12s. 6d.

Man and His Becoming according to the Vedanta. By René Guénon. Translated by Richard C. Nicholson. Pp. 188. Luzac and Co. 1945. 12s. 6d.

China—Tibet—Assam. By Colonel F. M. Bailey. Large Cr. 8vo. Cape. 10s. 6d.

Plant‐Hunting in China. By E. H. M. Cox. Pp. 230; 24 illustrations; maps. Collins. 1945. 12s. 6d.

Pacific Victory. A short history of Australia's part in the war against Japan. By Hugh Buggy. 5¼” × 8¼”. Pp. 302. Australian Ministry of Information. 1946.

The Far East Must Be Understood. By H. van Straelen. Pp. 150. Luzac and Co. 1946. 10s. 6d.