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Audrey Tennyson's Vice‐Regal Days: The Australian letters of Audrey Lady Tennyson 1899–1903. Edited by Alexandra Hasluck. National Library of Australia, Canberra 1978. Pp. xiii + 333. $18.50. People in Glass Houses: Growing up at Government House. By Adelaide Lubbock. Nelson, Melbourne 1977. Pp. xii + 196. $13.95. Colour, Class and the Victorians. English attitudes to the Negro in the mid‐nineteenth century. By Douglas A. Lorimer. Leicester University Press, Leicester 1978. Pp. 300. £8.50. Literature and the Aborigine in Australia. By J.J. Healy. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia 1978. Pp. x + 305. $19.95. Australia in Peace and War External Relations 1788–1977. By T. B. Millar. Australian National University Press, Canberra 1978. Pp. xxiii + 578. S19.50 cloth, $9.95 paper. Australia's Asian Policies: the History of a Debate, 1839–1972. By A. W. Stargardt. The Institute of Asian Affairs in Hamburg, Wiesbaden 1977. Pp. xxii + 404. Australians in America, 1876–1976. Edited by John Hammond Moore. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia 1977. Pp. vi 4– 331. $22.95. The founding of Australia. The argument about Australia's origins. Edited by Ged Martin. Hale & Iremonger, Sydney 1978. Pp. xiii + 314. $17.95 cloth, $8.95 paper. Australian Economic Development in the Nineteenth Century. By R. V. Jackson. Australian National University Press, Canberra 1977. Pp. vii + 175. $12.50 cloth, $5.95 paper. ’This Sin and Scandal’: Australia's Population Debate 1891–1911. By Neville Hicks. Australian National University Press, Canberra 1978. Pp. xviii + 208. $13.15 cloth, $7.95 paper. Australian Liberalism and National Character. By Tim Rowse. Kibble Books, Melbourne 1978. Pp. 293. $9.50. Weevils In The Flour: An oral record of the 1930s depression in Australia. By Wendy Lowenstein. Hyland House, Melbourne 1978. Pp. xv + 464. $20.00. In Search of Henry Lawson. By Manning Clark. Macmillan, Melbourne 1978. Pp.vii+ 143. $14.95. Chauvel of the Light Horse. A Biography of General Sir Harry Chauvel. By A. J. Hill. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1978. Pp. xx + 265. $25.00. Light Horse. The Story of Australia's Mounted Troops. By Elyne Mitchell. Macmillan, Melbourne 1978. Pp. viii + 112. $13.95. Patriarch and Patriot. William Grant Broughton 1788–1853. Colonial Statesman and Ecclesiastic By G. P. Shaw. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1978. Pp. xii + 347. $18.60. Colonial Improver. Edward Deas Thomson 1800–1879. By S. G. Foster. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1978. Pp. xv + 209. $15.00. God's Gentlemen: A History of the Melanesian Mission, 1849–1942. By David Hilliard. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia 1978. Pp. xv + 342. $14.95. Reluctant Mission: The Anglican Church in Papua New Guinea 1891–1942. By David Wetherell. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia 1977. Pp. xv + 430. $14.95. The Chief. C. Y. O'Connor. By Merab Tauman. University of Western Australia Press, Perth 1978. Pp. xiv + 290. $18.95. Calwell: A Personal and Political Biography. By. Colm Kiernan. Nelson, Melbourne 1978. Pp. x + 310. The Governor. Script by Keith Aberdein. Produced by New Zealand Television One, 1977. Six 75–minute episodes.