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Auchinleck. By John Connell. 1959. 5¾” × 8¾”. Pp. xxv + 975. Maps, index, illustrations. 35s. net. India and Anglo‐Soviet Relations, 1917–1947. By Chattar Singh Samra, M.A., Ph.D. Asia Publishing House, London. 26s. 6d. Handbook to India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon. Edited by Sir Arthur Lothan, K.C.I.E., C.S.I. John Murray, 1959. 18th Edition. 5? × 7½”. Pp. cii + 632. 50s. net. Economic Developments in India—1946–56: A Personal Retrospect. By C. D. Deshmukh. Asia Publishing House. Pp. 167. Leadership and Political Institutions in India. Edited by Richard L. Park and Irene Tinker. Published by the Princeton University Press, U.S.A., 1959. Pp. 469. Index. Arabian Sands. By Wilfred Thesiger. Longmans, 1959. Pp. 326. Ill., index, excellent maps. 35s. The Antiquities of Jordan. By Gerald Lankester Harding. Published by Lutterworth Press. 25s. The Persian Gulf States. By Sir Rupert Hay, K.C.M.G., K.C.I.E., C.S.I. Pp. 154. Published by the Middle East Institute, Washington. 16 illustrations, end paper maps, and index. Foreword by Rear‐Admiral E. M. Eller, U.S.N. Avicenna's De Anima (Arabic text). Being the psychological part of Kitab al‐Shifa’. By F. Rahman. Published for the University of Durham by Oxford University Press, 1959. Pp. ii + 299. 63s. The Hashemite Kings. By James Morris. Faber and Faber, London, 1959. Pp. 231. 28 illustrations, map, bibliography, index. 21s. Back to Bokhara. By Sir Fitzroy Maclean. Jonathan Cape. Pp. 156. Illustrated. 18s. Sinkiang: Pawn or Pivot? By Allen S. Whiting and General Sheng Shih‐ts‐'ai. Pp. 314. End paper maps. Michigan State University Press. 1958. 35s. Tragic Destiny. By George N. Patterson. Faber and Faber, 1959. Pp. 224. Index. 18s. Princes of the Black Bone, Life in the Tibetan Borderland. By Peter Goullard. John Murray, London, 1959. Pp. x, 221. 14 illustrations, 1 map. 21s. net. The Soul of China. By Amaury de Riencourt. Published by Jonathan Cape at 21s. Indexed. Approaches to the Oriental Classics. Edited by Ivan Theadore de Bary. Colum‐lia University Press. Pp. 262. Bib. The Secret Name. (Forty Years of Soviet Rule). By Lin Yutang. Heinemann, 1958. Pp. 234. Index. 18s. The Red Mandarins: Travels in Red China. By Karl Eskelund. Alvin Redman, London. Pp. 171. Illustrated; map; index. 25s. net. Journey to the Beginning. By Edgar Snow. Gollancz, 1959. Pp. 434. Index. 21s. Japanese Politics. By Nobutaka Ike. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1958. Pp. 300. Index. 25s. Window on Nepal. By Tibor Sekelj. Translated by Marjorie Boulton. Published by Robert Hale, 1959. Pp. 486. Illustrated, index, sketch map. 18s. net. The Forgotten Valley. Travels in Nepal. By Karl Eskelund. Alvin Redman. Pp. 181. Maps, coloured plates and index. 25s.