Distant Drum Research Articles

Music of a distant drum: classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew poems

Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 ARABIC POEMS 35 PERSIAN POEMS 89 TURKISH POEMS 145 HEBREW POEMS 175 About the Poets 199 Appendix 215 Note on Transcription 217 Source Notes 219 Illustration Credits 221

The Vietnam War on campus: other voices, more distant drums

Preface Introduction Pro-War and Anti-Draft: Young Americans for Freedom and the War in Vietnam by John Andrew No War, No Welfare, and No Damn Taxation: The Student Libertarian Movement, 1966-1972 by Jonathan Schoenwald The Refiner's Fire: Antiwar Activism and Emerging Feminism in the Late 1960s by Barbara L. Tischler Student Revolt Movies of the Vietnam Era by Tony Williams American Schism: Catholic Activists, Intellectuals, and Students Confront the Vietnam War by Kenneth J. Heineman Moo U and the Cambodia Invasion: Nonviolent Anti-Vietnam War Protest at Iowa State University by Clyde Brown and Gayle K. Pluta Brown Fighting the War in the Heart of the Country: Anti-war Protest at Ball State by Anthony O. Edmonds and Joel Shrock Hell No-We Won't Go, Y'all, Southern Student Opposition to the Vietnam war by Stephen H. Wheeler Healing from the War: Building the Berkeley Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Joe McDonald Lock and Load High: The Vietnam War Comes to a Los Angeles Secondary School by Marc Jason Gilbert When the Bell Rings: Public High Schools, the Courts, and Anti-War Dissent by Chuck Howlett Not Born to Run: The Silent Boomer Classes of 66 by Paul Lyons Aftermath: Pennridge High School and the Vietnam War by W.D. Ehrhart Selected Bibliography Index

The Rumble of a Distant Drum: The Quapaws and Old World Newcomers, 1673-1804

A specialist in colonial Arkansas, US Circuit Judge Arnold draws on archival material and such primary evidence as buffalo robes to reconstruct over a century of interactions between native people and French and Spanish explorers at Arkansas Post. He finds that particularly the Quapaws and the Frenc

What do service planners and policy-makers need from research?

Nine policy preoccupations have been identified in a recent study of dementia care policies in all European countries. These are used to structure a set of issues which researchers might usefully address to assist service planners and policy-makers. Areas where there is already a research literature are identified. Some description and commentary on the application of current policies in the UK is provided to illustrate the need for research. It is suggested that service planners and policy-makers march to some distant drum which is only remotely related to research, if at all. However, the importance of a research base is stressed with the suggestion that research in related fields could usefully be transferred.

J'ouvert in Brooklyn Carnival: Revitalizing Steel Pan and Ole Mas Traditions

J'ouvert in Brooklyn Carnival: Revitalizing Steel Pan and Ole Mas Traditions) The rumble of distant drums rolls across Prospect Park, breaking the pre-dawn tranquility that envelopes central Brooklyn on Labor Day morning. My watch says 4 a.m.-the J'Ouvert celebration must be underway. Quietly slipping out of my apartment into the cool of the night, I note the irony of being late for Carnival, an event that by nature defies time. Still, I quicken my pace, cutting across the park, drawn towards the percussive din and faint strains of steel pan. Emerging near the zoo entrance on Flatbush Avenue, I come face to face with a group of devils. Cheap plastic horns adorn heads smeared in red paint and faces powdered with white talcum. The ghoulish revelers have surrounded the Pantonics steel orchestra, a band of fifty steel pan players and percussionists mounted on two-story moveable racks. The devils, along with hundreds of less elaborately clad partygoers, are `jumping and wining to the Pantonic's rendition of the popular calypso My House. The band and dancers pulse as one, inching down the road toward Empire Boulevard, then bumping up against the Adlib Steelband and merging into a mile-long sea of humanity. The scene turns surreal as I pass a huge bank of temporary lights that cut through the thick predawn mist, illuminating the fervent crowd and the scores of police who line the street and look on with great disinterest. For the next two hours I ease my way toward the front of the parade, passing a dozen steel bands and thousands of merrymakers, some dressed as devils, ghosts, witches, African warriors and unruly slaves, others in old rags smeared with grease, mud, and paint. Many of the partygoers, dressed in plain street clothes, simply line along the sides, sipping beers and sodas, enjoying the steelband music and ole mas costumes, and dodging overzealous devils who occasionally sling mud or paint into the crowd. As the nighttime slips into dawn, the J'Ouvert procession lurches down Nostrand Avenue, past Gloria's Roti Shop and Alan's Caribbean Bakery, and finally begins to wind down. I catch my breath, and like thousands of other participants, wonder if I will have the energy to make it up to Eastern Parkway later that afternoon for the main Carnival event. For more than a century J'Ouvert2 break of day processions have marked the opening of Carnival in Trinidad. Held in the predawn hours of Carnival Monday, J'Ouvert evolved from 19th century Canboulay festivals-nighttime celebrations where ex-slaves gathered to masquerade, sing, and dance in commemoration of their emancipation.3 When the tradition was incorporated into Trinidad's pre-Lenten Carnival, J'Ouvert became an arena for African-derived percussion, witty satire singing, sardonic costuming, and, more recently, lively steelband music (Hill 1972: 84-99; Stuempfle 1995: 203-204). In contrast to the bright, fancy pageantry of Monday and Tuesday afternoon Carnival, Jouvert's gruesome devils and mud-covered revelers personify what folklorist Stephen Stuempfle has called the underworld dimension of Carnival..grim and sinister characters, dirty and coarse costumes, and aggressive verbal and physical action (Stuempfle 1995: 204). Historically, J'Ouvert's demonic and satirical masquerading, coupled with dense percussion and steel pan music, manifest Carnival's deepest challenge to order and authority, and for Trinidadian novelist Earl Lovelace, the essence of the Emancipation spirit (Lovelace 1998: 54). In Brooklyn, home to the largest West Indian community outside the Caribbean and host to a Labor Day Carnival that draws close to two million participants each year, J'Ouvert is a relatively new phenomenon. Over the past decade Brooklyn's J'Ouvert has grown from small groups of Dimanche Gras (Fat Sunday) revelers to a massive predawn celebration attracting nearly 100,000 steelband and old mas enthusiasts. This inquiry will trace the emergence of Brooklyn's J'Ouvert festival in the larger context of New York Carnival, and consider the event's role in the revitalization of older Carnival traditions in Brooklyn's Trinidad-American community. …

Research in Western American Literature: 1991–92

J A N R O U S H Utah State University Research inWestern AmericanLiterature: 1991-92 The ten theses and seventy-two dissertations listed in Dissertation Abstracts International for 1991-92 that relate in some way to western American literature reveal an increasing trend toward landscape: not only the awareness ofand concern for the land that has long been a part of fiction and nonfiction alike but a new ecological consciousness that crosses regional boundaries to fuse eastern and western perspectives, bringing Thoreau and Berry in alignment with Dillard, Snyder, Lopez, and Abbey. Such topics proliferate at a time when the program for this year’s WLA conference presented no fewer than ten sessions focusing on land and its place in western American literature; a new release entitled Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing: Henry Thoreau, Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, and Barry Lopez appeared on the literary scene; and a new journal, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, has declared it will “provide a forum for critical studies . . . address[ing] environmental considerations” across disciplines. The leading topic, however, isNative Americans, with twenty-three theses or dissertations discussing some aspect of their literature or culture. This trend, too, wasechoed by the WLA,which at itsconference in October honored Louise Erdrich with its 1992 Distinguished Achieve­ ment Award, scheduled a reading by Gerald Vizenor, and included a number of sessions devoted to Native American topics. Interestingly, enough topics appeared in the DAIon other minority and ethnic groups to indicate an increase in multicultural awareness. Of particular note were those that focused on Chinese-Americans in the West. Of those theses and dissertations that focused on a single author, Mark Twain and Willa Cather remained far ahead of the field, with fourteen and eight treatments respectively. New to the recent scholarly scene, however, is Steinbeck, with five dissertations devoted exclusively to his works. COMPLETED MASTERS THESES: American Literature Anderson, Karen Margretta The American Family inJohn Steinbeck’s Novels. (M.A.) SanJose State University, 1991. 350 Western American Literature Burns, William David The Tao of Pynchon: Society, Culture, and Politics in Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland. (M.A.) Boise State University, 1992. Cannariato, Susan Bacilek Recursive Time in the Works of Louise Erdrich. (M.A.) University of Houston-Clear Lake, 1991. Hawke,Judith Crowell Art and Nature in Four Cather Novels. (M.A.) Southern Connecticut State University, 1991. Lewis, Terrie Elliott Distant Drums: Old and New in the Fiction of Louise Erdrich. (M.A.) Tarleton State University, 1991. Lyke, Patrice Phelan Female Characters inJack Kerouac’s Fiction. (M.A.) Texas Woman’s University, 1991. Matlock, Phil D. Deculturation: Richard Brautigan and the Conditioned Reader. (M.A.) Boise State University, 1992. Stockton,Jim John Steinbeck’sHidden Western: A Biographical and Folkloric Interpreta­ tion of To a God Unknown. (M.A.) Boise State University, 1992. Anthropology, Archaeology Cranston, Vanita Renee Vernacular Ranch Architecture: An Ethnohistorical Study. (M.A.) University of Nevada, Reno. CulturalAnthropology Butler, Kristie Lee Along the Padres’Trail: The History of St. Michael’s Mission to the Navajo (1898-1939). (M.A.) Arizona State University, 1991. Chirinos, Sally Elizabeth Cultural Restructuring Among the Lakotas: A Case Study in Forced Accul­ turation and Human Adaptation. (M.A.) The University ofTexas at Arlington, 1991. United StatesHistory Hietter, Paul Thomas The Last Ride of the Younger Brothers; or, Missouri Outlawry and Minne­ Research 351 sota, and How Their Histories Influenced the Outcome of the Great Northfield Raid. (M.A.) University of Minnesota, 1991. Johnson, David Harmon The Development of the Sonora and Mono Wagon Road. (M.A.) SanJose State University, 1991. COMPLETED Ph.D., Ed.D., AND D.A. DISSERTATIONS: Mass Communication Bouse, Derek The Wilderness Documentary: Film, Video, and the Visual Rhetoric of American Environmentalism. (Ph.D.) University of Pennsylvania, 1991. Speech Communication Marshall, Gary Thomas William Stafford: A Writer Writing. (Ph.D.) Southern Illinois at Carbondale, 1990. GeneralLiterature Borthwick,John Stephan Travelling Writing, Writing Travelling: The TextAsJourney,theJourney As Text. (Ph.D.) University ofWollongong (Australia), 1991. Nielsen, H. Richard,Jr. The Personal and Political Rhetorics of Clifford Odets and Mari Sandoz in the 1930s. (Ph.D.) The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1991. Salyer, Gregory Signs, Symbols, and the Sacred: Representation and Meaning in...

The brave music of a distant drum: Sweden's nuclear phase out

The guiding idea in this article is that current developments in the nuclear energy field are essentially shaped by the same political rules of the game which have shaped nuclear energy policy during the whole post-war period. A basic theme in Swedish energy policy during this period has been that the state has made attempts at initiating and pursuing a long-term energy policy on several occasions — attempts which have often required regulation and steering of the energy market and thereby run up against political opposition. However, on certain critical occasions strong demands for political measures have been made on decision makers and have created temporary political opportunities for initiating comprehensive and far-reaching plans. But the policies formulated under these special circumstances have not lasted. When the threat of an impending catastrophe has faded, tolerance for an active state policy and the resolution of government to take unpopular measures have typically decreased, to the advantage of market oriented solutions. To summarize, this has meant that political conditions for establishing and implementing long-term and comprehensive energy policy goals have varied greatly.

Rumblings of a Distant Drum

The Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) was showing great evocative validity during career counseling, decades-long predictive validity, and wide relational fertility, opening the door to theories describing the social mechanisms that bring about an assortative mating between individuals and occupational fates when, out of the blue, the SVIB was suppressed. First the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII) and then today's Strong Interest Inventory (SII) were offered as its increasingly inadequate replacements. Apparently, sales had replaced science as the value guiding the changes made with each new test. Even so, why the classic SVIB was made the object of a book-burning by a university press remains an inexplicable atrocity. Can this outrage be now, belatedly, undone?

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A distant drum

The Distant Drum: Reflections on the Spanish Civil War edited by Philip Toynbee (David McKay; 192 pp.; $9.95)

The Distant Drum: Reflections on the Spanish Civil War edited by Philip Toynbee (David McKay; 192 pp.; $9.95)

Italy: Distant drums

The pollution threat posed by the cargo of a submerged ship in the Adriatic could now be receding. Alastair Hay, recently in Italy, reports

Manohar Malgonkar on His Novel The Princes: An Interview

Manohar Malgonkar visited Lock Haven State College, Lock Haven, Pa., during the Fall semester of 1972. During 28-30 September he gave two public lectures, conducted four college classes, taped one half-hour television interview, and another longer two-hour interview for a literary journal, and met with numerous students, faculty, and townspeople at an informal reception held in his honour. His novel The Devil's Wind had just been published. Perhaps what is most striking about Malgonkar's conversation is his command of the English language: his spoken sentences are as precise and rounded as those he writes. He talks quickly, confidently, eagerly yet unaffectedly - obviously enjoying it. His voice and manner are warm and gentle. No transcript taken from the tape could catch the subtleties of voice which gave life and point to many of his rewarks. Malgonkar is a trim and sprightly man who retains some of the brisk alertness of his military career. Born in Bombay on 12 July 1913, he served for a time in the infantry, in counter-intelligence, and on the Army's General Staff during World War II, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. After graduatingfrom Bombay University with honours in English and Sanskrit, he became a professional big-game hunter, and used to arrange tiger shoots for the Indian Maharajahs. Soon he gave up killing wild animals for a living, to turn ardently anti-killing, and joined government service. He has since become a fierce wild-life conservationist. He stayed on in the Army for a while after the war and then turned to business and farming. He owned and operated manganese mines near his home town Jagalbet, India. He was also active in politics as a member of the Swatantra Party, and twice contested Indian parliamentary elections unsuccessfully. Malgonkar is the author of five English novels: Distant Drum (1960), Combat of Shadows (1962), The Princes (1963), A Bend in the Ganges (1964), and The Devil's Wind (1972). He is also a historian, having written three books of Indian history: Kanhoji Angrey (1959), Puars of Dewas Senior (1962), and Chhatrapatis of Kolhapur (1971). He has written several scripts for Indian movies. Mr Malgonkar has also written fifty short stories and over a hundred articles. He has visited the U.S.A. four times, in 1963, 1964, 1970, and 1972, when he lectured at many colleges and universities. At present he lives with bis family in Jagalbet, Belgaum district of India, and grows coconuts, oranges, and mangoes. The following is a partial transcript of an interview with Malgonkar during his visit to Lock Haven in 1972.

Letter: Endoscopy in massive gastrointestinal tract bleeding.

<i>To the Editor</i>.—As one of those who for years has beat the distant drum of emergency endoscopy in massive gastrointestinal tract bleeding, it was with surprise and pleasure that I read "Massive Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Panel by Correspondence" by Dunphy et al (<i>Arch Surg</i>107:367-372, 1973). From Silen's, "endoscopy is now becoming the most useful single diagnostic step"; through Moody's, "fiberendoscopy of the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum is the most single [<i>sic</i>] valuable step"; and Mikkelsen's, "Once again, endoscopy becomes the key to diagnosis"; to Dunphy's concluding, "we have been brought up to date... particularly on the new and important roles of fiberoptic endoscopy in upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding"; the panelists appear to believe they are calling attention to an important innovation. Important, yes; but new? Following long after Eddy Palmer's pioneering work,¹in 1966 we reported a series of 323 cases seen at the Massachusetts General Hospital

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The Prospective Politics of Insecurity and Strategic Asymmetry in Asia

Twentieth-century Asia has been dragged, screaming and bloody, through the consequences of European imperialism, world war, and social revolution. No major country from Siberia to Suez has been able to set its own pace or march to its own distant drum. The cost of ignoring the insistent demands of the proselytizing imperial culture of the West has been defeat and dismemberment with only Japan adopting defensive Westernization to protect its unique tradition and status. China was first torn apart by competing imperial powers, then bled dry in a war of attrition with the Japanese, and finally shattered by the degrading urgencies of a civil war. The Maoist restoration of peace and a tenuous unity is an historic achievement. South and Southeast Asia has experienced less violence and social upheaval, largely because the colonial powers provided effective climates of security for their subject peoples. India in the twilight of the Moghuls was rent by civil strife and the breakdown of authority; the British restored the king's peace. The East Indies had never known a single government; the Dutch integrated many islands and provided opportunities for orderly trade in secure seas. Indochina, a factious region trapped between Siamese and Chinese expansionists, found in French rule relative calm and consolidation. And throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, while Europe was warring over privilege and prerogative, over nationalism and religion, over ideology and personality, Asian international politics was managed at very low levels of conflict.

The Therapeutic Factory and Its Inventory Problems

C IR ISAIAH BERLIN, in his essay on J Tolstoy and de Maistre, quotes a saying of an ancient Greek poet: fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing. This distinction serves Sir Isaiah as a guide to an intellectual typology, a distinction between those minds who seek and sniff out many little things and those whose intellectual ears pick up out of the multifarious sounds of the world surrounding them one big recurring thing the melody not yet audible to the ears of the foxes. Ideally the security analyst should be both a fox knowing many little things and a hedgehog knowing one big thing: he should combine the knowledge and experience of all the little everyday things that establish the criss-cross pattern of economic and financial affairs with the sensitivity of a mind listening to the rhythm of a distant drum. Like most other professionals, security analysts do not usually possess such an ideal cast of mind, able to combine the clear-sightedness of the microscopic eye with the distant sweep of telescopic vision. The knowledge of the fox is as essential as that of the hedgehog. Concentrating on one and losing sight of the other will lead to a crazy-quilt picture of reality. This occurs particularly when an intoxication with numbers and the many little things that may be dredged up in their nets causes the practitioners to overlook the imprecision of the seemingly precise. The hedgehog with his knowledge of one big thing telescopes terrestrial time into tiny little dots on an epochal scale and, so, frequently loses his knowledge in a cloudland casting only a fleeting shadow on the world of economic affairs. The risks and difficulties arising from their self-appointed tasks have never yet deterred either the fox or the hedgehog. Other professions have met with similar obstacles and have not allowed themselves to be inhibited by the difficulties. The inherent imprecision of economics has taught the economist to be satisfied with broad statements and to claim the right, by the knowledge of the fox, to make short-term forecasts, aware that change takes time and that there is a momentum in human affairs arising out of the finite nature of the mind of man. Because of this, to modify men's beliefs and motives for action is a complex and multi-faceted matter-even to convey an understanding of the significance of current news events at times raises nearly insuperable obstacles. It becomes difficult to determine the intersection between the things seen by the fox and the foreknowledge of the hedgehog. To combine the active pursuit of the many little things with the perspective of the one big and essential thing is the never-ending task of security analysis as a profession. At times the active pursuit of the many little things appears as the all-absorbing task; at others the wide sweep of new horizons opening attracts attention. It seems to me that, at the current juncture, the hedgehog deserves to be accorded a greater authority by the profession than in the past. The widening and deepening of science and technology in their application to more areas and broader segments of economic and financial life tends to lower the significance of the old guideposts so carefully described and numbered by the analyst and to lead into territory the geography of which can be charted in outline only. It has become trite to say that we have entered a period of accelerated technological change and that such change will necessarily affect all areas of everyday life and their interrelationships. As the recent report of the National Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress put it: Past trends and current prospects suggest that the present is, and the near future will be a time of rapid technological progress.... It is beyond our knowledge to know whether the computer, nuclear power and molecular bilogy are quantitatively or qualitatively more 'revolutionary' than the telephone, electric power and bacteriology. . . . Our broad conclusion

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Reviews of Books

Abstract Abstract The Supreme Command, 1914–1918. By Lord Hankey. (Allen and Unwin.) Two Volumes. 84s. The Art of War: From the Age of Napoleon to the Present Day. By Cyril Falls. (Oxford University Press.) 8s. 6d. The Control of the Arms Race. By Hedley Bull. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson for the Institute for Strategic Studies.) 21s. Strategy - and Arms Control. By T. C. Schelling and Morton A. Halperin. (Twentieth Century Fund, N.Y.) $2.50. The Anatomy of Glory: Napoleon and his Guard. Adapted from the French of Henry Lachouque by Anne S. K. Brown. (Brown University Press; London, Lund Humphries.) 100s. The Spanish Civil War. By Hugh Thomas. (Eyre and Spottiswoode.) 55s. Who Lived to See the Day: France in Arms 1940–1945. By Philippe de Vomécourt. (Hutchinson.) 25s. Salerno. By Hugh Pond. (Kimber.) 30s. Anzio. By Wynford Vaughan-Thomas. (Longmans.) 30s. The Yellow Scarf: An Account of Thuggee and its Suppression. By Lieut.-General Sir Francis Tuker, K.C.I.E., C.B., D.S.O., O.B.E. (J. M. Dent.) 25s. The Story of the French Foreign Legion. By Edgar O'Ballance. (Faber.) 30s. Brassey's Annual: The Armed Forces Year-Book, 1960. Edited by Rear-Admiral H. G. Thursfield. (William Clowes and Sons Ltd.) 63s. Fighting Admiral: The Life and Battles of Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Somerville. By Donald Macintyre. (Evans.) 25s. The British Destroyer. By Captain T. D. Manning. (Putnam.) 42s. Greek Tragedy ′41. By Anthony Heckstall-Smith and Vice-Admiral H. T. Baillie-Grohman. (Anthony Blond.) 25s. Command the Far Seas. By Keith Middlemas. (Hutchinson.) 25s. The Fiercest Battle: ONS 5, 22nd April-7th May, 1943. By Ronald Seth. (Hutchinson.) 21s. Charge to Glory. By James Lunt. (Heinemann.) 21s. Weapons of the British Soldier. By Colonel H. C. B. Rogers, O.B.E. (Seeley Service & Co.) 35s. Corunna. By Christopher Hibbert. (Batsford.) 21s. Men of Valour: Vol. III of the History of the VIII King's Royal Irish Hussars: 1927–1958. By Olivia Fitzroy. (Published by the Regiment.) Proud Heritage: The Story of the Highland Light Infantry-Vol. III-1882–1918. By Lieut.-Colonel L. B. Oatts, D.S.O. (House of Grant, Ltd.) 42s. Distant Drum. By Manohar Mangolkar. (Asia Publishing House.) 18s. The Forgotten Ones: The Story of the Ground Crews. By Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Joubert de la Ferté. (Hutchinson.) 25s.

A Distant Drum

A Distant Drum

Reviews of Books

Abstract Napoleon's Memoirs. Edited by Somerset de Chair. (Faber & Faber.) 42s. Gallipoli Mission. By C. E. W. Bean. (Canberra, Australian War Memorial.) 25s. The Influence of Sea Power on the History of the British People—The Lees Knowles Lectures for 1947. By Admiral Sir William M. James, G.C.B. (Cambridge University Press.) 4s. 6d. Portsmouth Point—The Navy in Fiction, 1793–1815. By C. Northcote Parkinson. (Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., London.) 12s. 6d. The Navy of Britain—A Historical Portrait. By Michael Lewis, M.A., F.R.Hist.S. (George Allen and Unwin). 30s. The Indian Sappers and Miners. By Lieut.-Colonel E. W. C. Sandes, D.S.O., M.C., R.E. (Ret.) (The Institution of Royal Engineers, Chatham.) The Canadian Army, 1939–1945. An Official Historical Summary. By Colonel C. P. Stacey, O.B.E., A.M., Ph.D. (H.M. Stationery Office.) 12s. 6d. The Suffolk Regiment, 1928–1946. By Colonel W. N. Nicholson, C.M.G., D.S.O. (East Anglian Magazine, Ltd., Ipswich.) 21s. The History of The 2nd Canadian Battalion (East Ontario Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force. By Colonel W. W. Murray, O.B.E., M.C. (Published by the Historical Committee, 2nd Battalion, C.E.F., Ottawa, November, 1947.) A Distant Drum. By Captain J. Pereira. (Gale and Polden, Ltd.) 21s. Laboratory of the Air. By John Pudney. (H.M. Stationery Office.) 3s. 6d.