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Volume 19 - Issue 1 - February 1957

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D.G.E. Hall (ed.): Michael Symes: Journal of his second embassy to the Court of Ava in 1802. lxxxix, 91–270 pp., London: George Allen & Unwin, 1955. 25s.

Jean Chesneaux: Constribution à l'histoire de la nation vietnamienne. (La Culture et les Hommes.) 323 pp., 1 map. Paris: Éditions Sociales, 1955. 580 fr.

J.D. Freeman: Iban agriculture: a report on the shifting cultivation of hill rice by the Iban of Sarawak. (Colonial Office. Colonial Research Studies, No. 18.) xii, 148 pp., front., 24 plates, 3 maps, 5 figs. London: H.M.S.O., 1955. 12s. 6d.

G. Fortune: An analytical grammar of Shona. xv, 443 pp., London: Green and Co., 1955. 21s.

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G.L. Lewis: Turksy. (Nations of the Modern World.) xiv, 15–222 pp., map. London: Ernest Benn, Ltd., 1955. 21s.

W.E.D. Allen and Paul Muratoff: Caucasian battlefields: a history of the wars on the Turco-Caucasian border, 1828–1921. xxii, 614 pp., 8 plates, 39 maps. Cambridge: University Press, 1953. £3 10s.

Raniero Gnoli: The aesthetic experience according to Abhinavagupta. (Serie Orientale Roma, XI.) xxxii, 123 pp.+corrigenda sheet, Roma: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1956. L. 3000.

Sir Jadu-Nath Shankar (ed.): The history of Bengal. Vol. II: Muslim period, 1200–1757. xiii, 531 pp. Dacca: The University of Dacca, 1948.

K. S. Lal: History of the khaljīs (1290–1320). xvi, 416 pp. 7 plates, 2 maps. Allahabad: The Indian Press, Ltd., 1950. Rs.10.

Sashi Bhusan Chaudhuri: Civil disturbances during the British rule in India (1765–1857). xxiii, 231 pp. map. Calcutta: The World Press, Ltd., 1955. Rs.8.8 or 15s.

Cresent and green: a miscellany of writings on Pakistan. x, 170 pp. plates, map. London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1955. 10s.

Harold Shadick (tr.): The travels of Lao Ts‘an by Liu T‘ieh-yūn (Liy E). xxv, 277 pp. 12 photos., map. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1952. (London: Geoffrey Cumberledge, Oxford University Press, [1953]. 32s. 6d.)

W.G. Aston (tr.): Nihongi: chronicles of Japan from the earliest times to A.D. 697. xxi, 407 [i], 443 pp. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1956. 45s.

G.W.J. Drewes (ed. and tr.): Een 16de eeuwse Maleise vertaling van de Burda van Al-Būṣīrī (Arabisch lofdicht op Mohammad). (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Deel XVII.) 100 pp. 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1955. Guilders 8.50.

Donatus Dunselman (ed. and tr.): Kana Sera: zang der zwangerschap. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Deel XVII.) 284 pp. 23 plates, map. 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1955. Guilders 21.

W. Kern: Commentaar op de Salasilah van Koetai. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Landen Volkenkunde, Deel XIX.) (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Deel XVII.) viii, 193 pp. 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1956. Guilders 16.

P. Voorhoeve: Critical survey of studies on the languages of Sumatra. (Koninklijk Instituut voor Tall-, Land-, en Volkenkunde, Bibliographical Series, I.) [iv], 55 pp. 8 plates, map. 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1955. Guilders 4.50.

Oswin Köhler: Geschichte der Erforschung der nilotischen Sprachen. (Afrika und Übersee. Beiheft 28.) [iv], iv, 84 pp., map. Berlin: Dietrich Eeimer, 1955. DM. 14.50.

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