Book reviewed in this article:HENRY PARKES: A Biography. By A.W. Martin.BARWICK. By David Marr.KEN LAIDLAW: A White Collar Union Leader. By Denis Murphy.THE MYSTERY OF LUDWIG LEICHHARDT. By Gordon Connell.WHIRLWINDS IN THE PLAIN: Ludwig Leichhardt — friends, foes and history. By E. M. Webster.STURT, THE CHIPPED IDOL: A study of Charles Sturt, Explorer. By Edgar Beale.UNDER ONE FLAG: The Northern Territory Elections 1980. Edited by Dean Jainsch and Peter Loveday.ABORIGINES IN COLONIAL VICTORIA 1835–86: By M.F. Christie.THE FRIGHTENED COUNTRY. By Alan Renouf.DIPLOMATIC WITNESS: Australian Foreign Affairs 1941–1947. By Paul Hasluck.GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION IN AUSTRALIA. By R. N. Spann.COLONIAL CAP AND GOWN. Studies in the Mid‐Victorian Universities of Australasia. By W. J. Gardner.REALITY AND RHETORIC: An alternative History of Australian Education. By Jean Ely.POLITICS AND THE WRITING OF AUSTRALIAN HISTORY: An Introduction to a structural Study. By John Lechte.THE PEOPLE OF PERTH: A Social History of Western Australia's Capital City. By C.T. Stannage.CRISIS OF COMMAND: Australian Generalship and the Japanese Threat, 1941–1943. By D.M. Horner.FALLING IN: Australians and ‘Boy Conscription’ 1911–1951. By John Barrett.CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN AUSTRALIA: Contemporary Issues and Problems. By Ailsa Burns and Jacquelines Goodnow.WITH PEN AND TONGUE: The Jesuits in Australia, 1865–1939. By Ursula M.L. Bygott.AUSTRALIAN CHURCHES AT WAR: Attitudes and Activities of the Major Churches 1941–1981. By Michael McKernan.LAW‐MAKING IN AUSTRALIA. Edited by Alice Erh‐Soon Tay and Eugene Kamenka.IN PURSUIT OF JUSTICE: Australian Women and the Law 1788–1979. Edited by Judy Mackinolty and Heather Radi.AUSTRALIA AND BRITIAN: Studies in a Changing Relationship. Edited by A. F. Madden and W. H. Morris‐Jones.THE STRUGGLE FOR ASIA 1828–1914: A Study in British and Russian Imperialism. By David Gillard.ROAD TO EXILE: The Indonesain Nationalist Movement 1927–1934. By John Ingleson.THE MAKING OF A BUREAUCRATIC ELITE: The Colonial Transformation of the Javanese Priyaya. By Heather Sutherland.CLASS, RACE AND COLONIALISM IN WEST MALAYSIA: The Indian Case. By Michael Stenson.ISLANDS AND BEACHES: Discourse on a Silent Land: Marquesas 1774–1880. By Greg Dening.ETHNIC POWER MOBILIZED: Can South Africa Change? By Heribert Adam and Hermann Giliomme.WATERSHED IN INDIA 1914–1922. By Sir Algernon Rumbold.THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF CHINA: volume 3, Sui and T'ang China 589–906, part 1. Edited by Denis Twitchett.TANAKA GIICHI AND JAPAN'S CHIA POLICY. By William F. Morton.UNFULFILLED UNION: Canadian Federalism and National Unity. By Garth Stevenson.WORKER'S CONTROL IN AMERICA. By David Montgomery.JUAREZ AND DIAZ: Machine Politics in Mexico. By Laurens Ballard Perry.MODERNIZATION IN A MEXICAN EJIDO: A study in Economic Adaptation. By Billie R. DeWalt.FOREIGN IMMIGRANTS IN EARLY BOURBON MEXICO 1700–1760. By Charles F. Nunn.THE WORLD FOR A MARKET–PLACE: Episodes in the History of European Expansion. By John Parker.ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF SOVIET SOCIALISM. By Alan Abouchar.TITO'S YUGOSLAVIA. By Duncan Wilson.PRAXIS: Yugoslav Essays in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Science. Edited by Markovic and Gajo Petrovic.FOOLS AND HEROES: The Changing Role of Communist Intellectuals in Czechoslovakia. By Peter Hruby.THE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS OF ISRAEL. By Don Peretz.THE JEKYLL AND HYDE YEARS: Politics and Economic Policy Since 1964. By Michael Stewart.ROBERT HARLEY AND THE PRESS: Propaganda and Public Opinion in the Age of Swift and Defoe. By J.A. Downie.THE BRITISH PHILOSOPHY OF ADMINSTRATION. By R. Thomas.AN UNGOVERNABLE PEOPLE: The English and their law in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Edited by John Brewere and John Styles.ARTISANS AND POLITICS IN EARLY NINETEENTH‐CENTURY LONDON: John Gast and his Times. By I.J. Prothero.SIR GEORGE ARTHUR, BART 1784–1854: Superintendent of British Honduras, Lietenant‐Governor of Van Diemen's Land and of Upper Canada, Governor of the Bombay Presidency. By A.G.L. Shaw.THE FEDERAL PRINCIPLE: A Journey Through Time in Quest of Meaninin. By S. Rurus Davis.THE INHERITANCE OF INEQUALITY. By L. Broom, F.L. Jones, P. McDonnell and T. Williams.PHOENIX OF HIS AGE: Interpretations of Erasmus, c. 1550–1750. By Bruce Mansfield.MARXISM‐LENINISM AND THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. By V. Kubálková and A.A. Cruikshank.RATIONAL ACTION: Studies in Philosophy and Social Science. Edited by Ross Harrison.WORLD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 1979 AND BEYOUND. By Herman Kahn (with the Hudson Institude).