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Volume 83 - Issue 3-4 - October 1951

Reviews of Books

The Truth About Korea. By Robert T. Oliver. 8 × 5½. pp. 178. Putnam & Co., Ltd.1951. 10s. 6d.

The Koreans and Their Culture. By Cornelius Osgood. Professor of Anthropology, Yale University. 9¼ × 6. pp. xv + 387, 48 plates. The Ronald Press Co., New York1951. $5.

Malay Sayings. By C. C. Brown, Lecturer in Malay, University of London, pp. i–xvi + 274. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London. 18s.

The Chinese in South-East Asia. By Victor Purcell, C.M.G., Ph.D. 8¾ × 6¾. pp. i–xxxvii + 1–801 and 2 maps. 50sh.

The Visuddhimagga of Buddhaghosācariya. Edited by Henry Clarke Warren and revised by Dharmānanda Kosambi. Harvard Oriental Series, vol. 41. 1951.

Bengali Literature. By J. C. Ghosh. Oxford University Press. 1948. pp.188. 15s.

Introduction à l'Étude d'Avalokitéçara. Civilisation du Sud. Par Marie-Thérèse de Mallmann. S.A.E.P.Paris, 1948. pp. 348 and 32 plates.

Les Inscriptions d'Asoka. Traduites et commentées par Jules Bloch. 8 × 5, pp. 1–88 (single), 89–172 (double), 173–216 (single), and map. “Les Belles Lettres.” Paris, 1950.

The Making of Greater India: A Study in South-East Asian Culture Change. By H. G. Quaritch Wales, pp. 209, 1 plate. London: Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 1951. 25s.

Catalogue of Sassoon Chinese Ivories. Compiled by S. E. Lucas. 15½ × 11½. 3 vols. with plates (of 966 pieces). Country Life, Ltd., London; Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 1950.

Byzantine Mosaic Decoration. By Otto Demus. Kegan Paul, 1948 (for 1947). 10×7½. pp. 97, pl. 64. £2 2s.

Archæological Research in Indochina. By O. R. T. Janse. Vol. II. pp. i–viii + 1–300, with plates 1–40 and i–iii (coloured). Harvard University Press. 1951.

Conversion and the Poll Tax in Early Islam. By Daniel C. DennettJr. Harvard Historical Monograph No. XXII, 1950. pp. xi, 136, including bibliography and index. 16s.

Islam: Belief and Practices. By A. S. Tritton, London, Hutchinson's University Library1951. pp. 200. 7s. 6d.

Sūfism. By A. J. Arberry. pp. 141. Allen and Unwin. 8s. 6d. London, 1951.

La Renaissance Orientale. By Raymond Schwab, pp. 521. Paris: Payot, 1950.

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Sir William Foster, C.I.E.

I. Y. Krachkovsky

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Volume 83 - Issue 3-4 - October 1951

Reviews of Books

Obituaries

Meeting Report

Additions to the Library