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Volume 16 - Issue 3 - May 1957

Book Reviews

Indo-Scythian Studies, Being Khotanese Texts Volume III. Ed. H. W. Bailey. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1956. viii, 140. Appendix. $7.50.

Le Viêt Nam: Histoire et civilisation. By Lê Thánh Khôi. Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1955. 587. Tables, Maps, Bibliography, Index. 1800 frs. (paper).

Conflict in Indo-China and International Repercussions: A Documentary History, 1945–1955. Ed. Allan B. Cole, with the assistance of W. Bryce Harland, Dennis H. Kux, Peter W. Lande and Larry H. Wendell. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1956. xxix, 265. Appendices. $5.00 (paper).

Burma in the Family of Nations. By Maung Maung. Amsterdam: Djambatan Ltd., 1956. xi, 236 (paper).

Colonial Policy and Practice: A Comparative Study of Burma and Netherlands India. By J. S. Furnivall. New York: New York University Press (in cooperation with the Institute of Pacific Relations), 1956. xiii, 568. Appendices, Index, Map. $7.50.

The United Nations and Kashmir. By M. M. R. Khan. Groningen: J. B. Wolters, 1956. viii, 213. Maps, Appendices, Bibliography, no Index. $4.00.

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. New York: Macmillan, 1955 (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1954). xxiv, 568. 89 Plates, 26 Line Drawings, Maps, Chronology, Bibliography, Index, Glossary. $9.00.

The Indian Heritage. By Humayun Kabir. Bombay: Asia Publishing House, third (rev. and enl.) ed., 1955. xi, 170. $1.10. - Hindu Society at Cross Roads. By K. M. Panikkar. Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1955. 102. $.95.

Moscow and the Communist Party of India: A Study in the Postwar Evolution of International Communist Strategy. By John H. Kautsky. New York: Technology Press of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and John Wiley and Sons, 1956. xii, 220. Bibliography, Index. $6.00.

Mediaeval Sinhalese Art. By Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. New York: Pantheon, 2nd ed., rev., 1956. xvi, 344. Appendices, Glossary, Index, 53 Plates and 152 Figures (in text). $12.50.

Textiles and Ornaments of India: A Selection of Designs. Ed. Monroe Wheeler. Texts by Pupul Jayakar and John Irwin. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1956. 96. 110 Plates (16 in color), Bibliography. $4.00.

Yoga Uniting East and West. By Selvarajan Yesudian and Elisabeth Haich. New York: Harper, 1956. 161. $3.00.

Crescent and Green: A Miscellany of Writings about Pakistan. New York: Philosophical Library, 1956. x, 170. Illustrations. $4.75.

Shorter Notices

Foreign Relations of the United States. Diplomatic Papers. The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1955. lxxviii, 1032. Maps, Illustrations, Index. $5.50.

The New Isolationism: A Study in Politics and Foreign Policy Since 1950. By Norman A. Graebner. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. ix, 289. Notes, Index. $4.00.

The U.N. and the China Dilemma. By David Brook. New York: Vantage Press, 1956. 85. Bibliography. $2.50.

The Zhi ma Funeral Ceremony of the Na-khi of Southwest China. By Joseph F. Rock. Studia Instituti Anthropos, Vol. IX. Vienna: St. Gabriel's Mission Press, 1955. xv, 228. Swiss frs. 25.-.

Japanese Geography: A Guide to Japanese Reference and Research Materials. By Robert B. Hall and Toshio Noh. Center for Japanese Studies, Bibliographical Series Number 6. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1956. x, 128. Appendix. $5.00 (paper).

Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination. By Edogawa Rampō. Tr. James B. Harris. Tokyo and Rutland: Tuttle, 1956. xii, 222. $2.50.

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