Book reviews

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Peter Quartermaine (ed), Diversity Itself: Essays in Australian Arts and Culture, Exeter Studies in American and Commonwealth Arts, No. 1, University of Exeter, Exeter, 1986, pp. 182. Ian Donaldson & Tamsin Donaldson (eds), Seeing The First Australians, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1985, pp. 216, $29.95, paper $17.95. Barry York, The Maltese in Australia, AE Press, Melbourne, 1986, pp. 161, $14.95. Jim Moss, Sound of Trumpets, History of the Labour Movement in South Australia, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 1985, pp. xvii + 454, $35, paper $20. Kate Nelson, Dominica Nelson (eds), Sweet Mothers, Sweet Maids, Journeys from Catholic Childhoods, Penguin, Melbourne, 1986, pp. xix + 235, $9.95. Patricia Clarke, A Colonial Woman, The Life and Times of Mary Braidwood Mowle, 1827–1857. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1986, pp. xii + 311, $29.95. Joseph Placid Stokes, Cunderdin‐Meckering, A Wheatlands History, Hyland House, Melbourne, 1986, pp. xvi + 333, $35. Hugh Stretton, Political Essays, Georgian House, Melbourne, 1987, pp. 271, $14.95. Leigh Astbury, City Bushmen, The Heidelberg School and the Rural Mythology, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985, pp. vii + 216, $45. Tim Bonyhady, Images in Opposition, Australia Landscape Painting, 1801–1890, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985, pp. xii + 192, $45. Trevor Griffin and Murray McCaskill (eds), Atlas of South Australia, South Australian Government Printing Division/Wakefield Press, 1986, pp. xiv + 134, $55. D.M. White and D.A. Kemp (eds), Malcolm Fraser on Australia, Hill of Content, Melbourne, 1986, pp. 240. Mimmo Cozzolino and G. Fysh Rutherford, Symbols of Australia, Penguin, Melbourne, 2nd edition, 1987, pp. 208, $19.95. Gary Presland, The Land of the Kulin, Discovering the Lost Landscape and the First People of Port Phillip, McPhee Gribble/Penguin, Melbourne, 1985, pp. 99, $12.95. Jan Bassett, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Australian History, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1986, pp. 276, $9.95.