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Volume 14 - Issue 2 - February 1955

Book Reviews

Nihon gaikō hyakunen shōshi (Short history of a century of Japan's foreign relations.) Compiled by the Foreign Ministry of Japan, edited by the Nichi-Bei Tsūshinsha. Tokyo: Yamada Shobō, 1954. 288.

Japan's Decision to Surrender. By Robert J. C. Butow. Foreword by Edwin O. Reischauer. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1954. xi, 259. $4.00.

Burma Under the Japanese. By U Nu. Edited and translated with Introduction by J. S. Furnivall. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1954. 132.

Political Systems of Highland Burma, a Study of Kachin Social Structure. By E. R. Leach. With a foreword by Raymond Firth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, for the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, 1954. xii, 324. Bibliography, appendices, index. $7.00.

An Annotated Collection of Mongolian Riddles. By Archer Taylor. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. New Series-Volume 44, Part 3. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1954. $12.00.

Songs and Stories of the Ch'uan Miao. By David Crockett Graham. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 123, No. 1. Smithsonian Institution, 1954. xi, 336. 24 plates, bibliography, appendix and index.

Ein Dorf der Ta-hua Miao in Yünnan. By Hans Stübel. (Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens [OAG] Band XXXVII) (Hamburg, 1954), 80. (Includes Inez de Beauclair, “Die Ta-hua Miao der Provinz Kueichou,” 9. Illustrations.)

Shorter Notices and Other Books

United States Army in World War II. The Army Service Forces, The Organization and Role of the Army Service Forces. By John D. Millet. Washington: Department of the Army, Office of the Chief of Military History, 1954. xx, 494. Appendices, glossary, index. $4.25.

Hinduism and Buddhism. An Historical Sketch. In three volumes. By SirCharles Eliot. New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1954. $17.50. - Siam. Basic Handbook. London, Foreign Office, (1945?) 147. Appendices, maps.

Communism in the Philippines. Published and released by the Special Committee on Un-Filipino Activities, House of Representatives of the Republic of the Philippines, Manila. Manila, Bureau of Printing, 1952. 29.

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Book Reviews

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