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REFERENCE SHELF AND STUDY TABLE

NOTES ON NEW BOOKS

Dr H. Liepmann, formerly research Sisiant a P t the feterT makes of "taSolSy. export movements .and S^gs 0 !?- SSFSMf SHE; iSSSiIc- Uiffi of Agen ropean countries in years It goes on to examine the.e»oi tariffs upon trade • and , in export movements.

Mr Neville W. Cayley is among the mSst eririnent of Australian ornithologists. ■ His latest book, AustraUan plrrots: Their Habits in the Field and Aviary (Angus and Robertson Ltd. 332 pp. 12/6), is an admirably full and close survey of the fo or 60 species and sub-species which give Australian bird-life so much colour and gaiety. The illustrations in colour- are excellent, others, photographic or m line, usefully supplement them. The descriptions are wonderfully detailed and precise; the accounts of habit and habitat are correspondingly full a™ draw upon numerous records and observations additional to Mr Cayley s own. Each account is supplemented bv aviary notes; and a final chapter, on housing and keeping parrots in captivity, is contributed by a specialist authority/Mr R. R. Mmchin.

The full survey of the system of government in India published last year by Mr G. N. Joshi under the title Indian Administration (Macmillan, 324 pp. 6/- net), has now, in a new, second edition, been textuany revised in accordance with the introduction of Provincial Autonomy in April, 1937. Besides, the first year's working of this measure of autonomy and of the provincial legislatures is reviewed; and the statistical apparatus is brought up to date.

The Geneva Institute of International Relations, in August, 1937, heard a dozen addresses oh the present international disequilibrium, the forces making for war, the breakdown of co-operation and particularly the check to the cause of collective security, and certain more encouraging signs, such as international .cooperation in the field of health and the direction of "New Deal" policy in the United States. These lectures have been rearranged as the twelfth volume in the institute's Problems of Peace series, under the title of Geneva and The Drift to War (Allen and Unwin. 234 pp. 7/6 net). The lecturers included Sir Norman Angell. Dr. J. B. Condliffe, Professor G. P. Gooch, Mr Carter Goodrich, and Mr Malcolm Davis.

No more useful short survey of international politics since the end of the Great War is available to the ordinary reader and the student than the one Mr E. L. Hasluck provides in Foreign Affairs, 1919-1937 (Cambridge University Press. 347 pp. 8/6 net). "Political extremists," Mr Hasluck says, may feel that he has, not sufficiently emphasised "the virtues of'their friends and the wickednesses of ; their opponents." The level tone and objective treatment of the book, as "a study of human activity, and not as a political diatribe," are its outstanding merits.

The president of the Hermetic Society, Dublin, Mr P. G. Bowen, fulfils a promise to "A.E." in The Occult Way (Rider and Co. 224 pp. 10/6 net), a book in which, addressing learners and aiming to give "a clearly defined conception of what the occult way of life demands" of them, he works with them through seven "lessons," on the philosophic foundation of occultism, the practical foundation, the 10 virtues, balance, invocation, evocation, and natural magic. The last 60 pages consist of typical questions that learners ask, with the author's answers.—Through Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd.