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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
ISSN: 1356-1863

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Volume 95 - April 1963

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Generation of Giants. The Story of the Jesuits in China in the last days of the Ming Dynasty. By G. H. Dunne, s.j. 389 pp. + illustrations, Burns Oates, 1962. 50s.

Sun Tzu: The Art of War. By Samuel B. Griffith; with a foreword by B. H. Liddell Hart. pp. vii + 195. Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1963. 35s.

The Income of The Chinese Gentry. By Chung-li Chang. Introduction by Franz Michael, pp. xvii + 369. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1962. $7.75.

Buriat Grammar. By Nicholas N. Poppe. (Indiana University Publications. Vol. 2 of the Uralic and Altaic Series). Pp. vii + 129 reproduction type-script. Bloomington, Ind. $3.

Old Akkadian Writing and Grammar. Second Edition (Revised and Enlarged) by I. J. Gelb. 235 pp. The University of Chicago Press, 1962. 24s.

The Travels and Controversies of Friar Domingo Navarrete 1618–86. Ed. from manuscript and printed sources by J. S. Cummins. 2 vols., pp. cxx + 475. 18 plates and 6 sketch-maps. Cambridge University Press: Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, Vol. CXVIII and CXIX. 1962. £4.

An Embassy to China, being the journal kept by Lord Macartney during his embassy to the Emperor Ch'ien-lung 1793–4. Ed. by J. L. Cranmer-Byng. pp. xv + 421. Longmans, Green and Company, London. 1962. 42s.

Catalogue of Syriac Printed Books and Related Literature. By C. Moss. pp. 587 + 103 + 136. British Museum, London. £14.

Marsh Dwellers of the Euphrates Delta. By S. M. Salim. (London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology, no. 23), pp. x + 157. ills. 8. maps 3. London, Athlone Press1962. 30s.

Legal Institutions in Manchu China. A Sociological Analysis. By Sybille van der Sprenkel. pp. vi + 179. University of London. The Athlone Press. 1962. 30s.

Local Government in China under the Ch'ing. By T'ung-tsu Ch'ü. pp. xiv + 359 + xlix. Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press. 1962s. 76s.

Al-Mas'ūdī: Millenary Commemoration Volume. Ed. by S. Maqbul Ahmad and A. Rahman. The Indian Society for the History of Science and the Institute of Islamic Studies, Aligarh University, 1960. pp. x, 146. Rs. 20.00 (30s.)

Siberian Journey down the Amur to the Pacific 1856–1857. By P. McD. Collins, ed. by C. Vevier. pp. ix, 370; 2 illustrations, 4 maps. The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis.1962. $6.

The Land of The Great Sophy. By Roger Stevens. 291 pp. 16 plates. London, 1962, Methuen & Co. £2 2s.

The Arab Middle East and Muslim Africa. Ed. by Tibor Kerekes. Published by Thames and Hudson for the Institute of Ethnic Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1961. pp. 126. 15s.

Japanese Decorative Art; A Handbook for Collectors and Connoisseurs. By Martin Feddersen. Tr. by Katherine Watson, pp. 296, 8 coloured plates and 239 illustrations. Bibliography. Faber and Faber, London, 1962. £2 12s. 6d.

Al-Kitāb Al-Aqdas or the most Holy Book of Mīrzā Ḥusayn ʿAlī Bahā'u'llāh. Ed. and tr. from the Arabic by E. E. Elder and W. Mc E. Miller (Oriental Translation Fund, N.S., XXXVIII). pp. 74. Royal Asiatic Society, London, 1961. 15/- bound, 10/6 sewn.

Substance and Symbol in Chinese Toggles: Chinese Belt Toggles from the C. F. Bieber Collection. By Schuyler Cammann. pp. 256 + 2 pls. Illus. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1962. $15.

Papers in Maltese Linguistics. By J. Aquilina. pp. ix + 240. Royal University of Malta. 1961. 24s.

Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné Enamels. By SirHarry Garner. pp. 120 + 102 pls. Faber and Faber, London, 1962. £3 10s.

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