Book reviewed in this article: Housing and Poverty in Australia. By M. A. Jones. The Pastoral Age: A Re‐examination. By G. J. Abbott The Southern Expansion of the Chinese People. By C. P. Fitzgerald Fiscal Federalism. By W. E. Oates Variational Methods in Economics. By G. Hadley and M. C. Kemp Microeconomics: The Theory of Economic Allocation. By C. A. Tisdell The Economics of Modernization. By Goh Kenq Swee International Trade. By Akira Takayama. The Economics of Public Policy. By E. Victor Morgan and Ann D. Morgan