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Early Moslem Architecture. By K. A. C. Creswell, F.S.A., Hon. A.R.I.B.A. Part I.: Umayyads, A.D. 622–750. With a contribution on the Mosaics of the Dome of the Rock and of the Great Mosque at Damascus, by Marguerite van Berchem. Pp. xxii and 414. 80 plates in collotype. 491 figs. in line and half tone. In folio. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1931. Price £10 10s. Persia. By Sir Arnold T. Wilson. 8¾"×5¾”. Pp. x+180. Benn. 1932. 21s. The Keys of Power: a Study of Indian Ritual and Belief. By J. Abbott, I.C.S. 9¼"×6”. Pp. xi+560+8 pp. Illustrations. Methuen. 1932. 21s. Asiatic Mythology. A detailed description and explanation of the Mythologies of all the Great Nations of Asia. By J. Hackin and G. H. Marchal, S. Eliséev, H. Maspero, C. Huart, H. de Wilman‐Grabowska, and Raymonde Linossier. Introduction by Paul Louis Couchoud. Translated from the French by F. M. Atkinson. 12½"×10½”. Pp. 459. 15 coloured plates and 354 illustrations. Harrap and Sons. 63s. Planned Money. By Basil P. Blackett. 7¾"×5”. Pp. ix+194. With two coloured charts. Constable. 5s. Akbar. By Lawrence Binyon. 5¼"×7¾”. Pp.165. Frontispiece. 5s. Peter Davies, Ltd. 1932. The Loom of the East. By F. Kingdon‐Ward. 5½×5¼. Pp. 208. Martin Hopkinson, Ltd., 1932. 5s. The Future of East and West. By Sir Frederick Whyte, K.C.S.I. 7½"×5”. Pp. 180. Sidgwick and Jackson. 3s. 6d. China : The Pity of It. By J. O. P. Bland. London: William Heinemann, 1932. 8s. 6d. Economic Rivalries in China. By Grover Clark. 9"×6¾”. Pp. 132. Yale University Press. London: Humphrey Milford. 1932. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 11s. Land and Labour in China. By R. H. Tawney. 8¾×5¾. Pp. 207. Allen and Unwin. 1932. 7s. 6d. The Co‐operative Movement in India. By Eleanor M. Hough. With an Introduction by Sir Horace Plunkett. Foreword by Professor Kaji. 9"×5¾”. Pp. xxvii+340. P. S. King. 15s. Review of Rural Welfare Activities in India, 1932. By C. F. Strickland, C.I.E. With a Preface by Sir Francis Younghusband and a Foreword by the Lady Irwin. Post 8vo. Pp. 58. Oxford University Press, London: Humphrey Milford. 1932. 1s. 6d. net. Land of the Gold Mohur. By Lady Lowther. Illustrated. Pp. 231. London: Philip Allan. 1932. The ‘Iraq Levies, 1915–1932. By Brigadier J. Gilbert Browne, C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O. 10"×7½”. Pp. 88. Two illustrations and three maps. Published by Royal United Service Institution. Baghdad Sketches. By Freya Stark. Illustrated by E. N. Prescott. Pp. 132. The Times Press, Ltd. Baghdad. 1932. Grey Wolf: Mustafa Kemal. An Intimate Study of a Dictator. By N. C. Armstrong. 9"×5¾" Barker, Ltd. London. 1932. The Muslim Creed: Its Genesis and Historical Development. By A. J. Wensinck, Professor of Arabic in the University of Leiden. 8¾"×5½”. Pp. vii + 304. Cambridge University Press. 1932. 15s. net. The Andaman Islands. By E. H. Man. 9"×6”. Pp. xxxii+73. Illustrations and map. First published in 1885. Reprinted, 1932. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Twenty Years in Tibet. By David Macdonald. Seeley Service. 18s.