NEW PUBLICATIONS RECENTLY RECEIVED (*Indicates books of special value for readers of History.)

BRITISH EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH

*Democracy in the Canaahs. 1759-1867, by D . HUGH GILLIS noronto, Oxford Univ. Press, 1951, x + 217 pp., $2.50 (19s.) ] is a brief synthetic account of Canadian political development from the British conquest to the British North America Act of 1867, drawing both on original matcrial (published and unpublished) and on the works of recent writers. ProfessorGillis treats his sub- ject widely, discussing the effects of external relations, commercial develop ment and the impact of ideas from outside upon the two Canadas, as well as the internal political and religious factors. *The Puritan Frontier : Town Plnnting in New England Colonial Development. 1630-1660. by WILLIAM HALLER, JR. [Columbia University Faculfy of Political Scienu Studies in His to~y , Economics and Public Law, No. 568, New York, Columbia Univ. Press (London, Cumberlege). 1951,119 pp., 12s. 6d.1 is a short but lucid and interest- ing analysis of the conditions, motives, methods and progress of expansion in New England in the first generation of advancing settlement. Its particular virtue lies in the elucidation of both the economic and the politico-religious factors in this crucial phase in the establishment of the colonies, when all new settlement was controlled by public authority, and individual venturea were suppressed as ‘ disorderly living ’. A map would have helped British readers. Queen Anne’s American Kings, by RICHMOND P. BOND [Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1952, xii + 148 pp. (illus.), 21s.I is a light-hearted study of a somewhat trivial incident in the spring of 1710, when four Iroquois chiefs visited London at the instance of a group of New England and New York colonists anxious to impress on the queen’s government the need for immediate effective naval and military aid against the French threat from Canada, and to demonstrate to the Iroquois the splendour and might of the English government. Professor Bond traces the repercussions of the visit on English political and ecclesiastical affairs, and gathers together allusions to it in the art and letters of the day : he writes with amusing interest and irony, exploiting every scrap of material in the subject, and the Clarendon press has printed the book with accustomed elegance and taste. But is the subject really worth the trouble and expense ? The Caribbean Commission : Background of Co-operation in the West Indies, by BERNARD L. POOLE [Columbia, Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1951, xix + 303 pp. (illus., map), $5.50] is a detailed account of the economic and social conditions of the colonial peoples living on the Caribbean islands, and of the organized co-operation of the British, American. French and Dutch govern- ments during and after the recent war in their concerted attempt to raise the standard of living and the economic productivity of these impoverished islands. Australian Setting, by GEORGE FARWELL [Windows on The World Series, London, Evans, 1952, 164 pp. (illus., map), 12s. 6d.J is a handsomely illustrated and lively popular travel-book written with an extremely varied and long first-hand experience of life and work in most parts of the continent.

Archives Year-Book for South African History. Fourteenth Year (1951). vols. i and ii. edited by COENRAAD BEYERS and others (Cape Town, Ministry of Education, Arts and Science, 1952, xi + 395 pp., vi + 454 pp., n.p.) are two large tomes containing theses for higher degrees, and other long articles based on research in the South African archives. Vol. i is devoted to a doctoral thesis in Afrikaans by T. S. van Rooyen on relations between the English and the Boers in eastern Transvaal. and vol. ii contains a paper in English by Professor

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Michael Roberts on ' Lord Charles Somerset and the " Beaufort Influence " ', a substantial article by Dr. Lindsay Young on ' The h'ative Policy of Benjamin Pine in Natal, 1850-1855'. and two long articles in Afrikaans by Mr. M. van Niekerk on ' Adolf Schiel and the German Commando ' in the second Boer War, and by Mr. P. J. Rossouw on The Labour Colony of Kakamas ', an experimental settlement founded in 1898 on the lower Orange River. South African Archival Records (Cape Town, Publications Section of the Archives of the Union of S. Africa), 0range.Free Slate, No. 1, Not& van die Volksraad van die Oranje Vrystaat. pt. i, 1851-1855, edited by W. B. VAN DER VYVER and J. H. BREYTENBACH [1952, xli + 404 pp. (illus.), n.p.1, and Trans- vaal, Nos. 3 and 4, Notule van die Volksraad van die Suid-Afrikaanse Republick, pts. iii, 1854-1858, and iv, 1859-1863, edited by J . H. BREYTENBACH [1951-2. xxxii + 634 pp. (illus.), xliii + 712 pp. (illus.), n.p.1 print the minutes (in Afrikaans) of the volksraads (national councils) of the two Boer republics for the periods stated, as instalments of an important project for publishing the principal records of all of the component provinces of the Union. Kaapse Plakaatboek ; vol. i, 1652-1707, edited by K. M. JEFPREYS ; vol. ii, 1707-1 753, edited by K. M. JEFFREYS. S. D. NAUDB and P. J. VENTER ; vols. iii, 1754- 1786, and iv, 1787-1795, edited by S . D. N A U D ~ and P. J. VENTER ; voh. v. 1795-1803, and vi, 1803-1806, edited by S. D. NAUDB (Cape Town, Cape Times, Ltd., 1944-51, xxiv + 382. xii + 252, xii + 199, xi + 281, xii + 303, xii + 315 pp., n.p.) is an important series printing the statutes, proclamations and ordinances of the Cape government : all are in Afrikaans, except those contained in vol. v, the period of the first British occupation (1795-1803), which are in English. *Die Konvensie-Dagboek van Sy Edelagbare Frawois Stephanus Malan, 1908-1909. edited by JOHANN F. PRELLER, with an English translation by A. J. DB VILLIBRS [Capetown, Van Riebeeck Soc., (Publicutions, No. 32). 1951, viii + 284 pp. (illus.), 20s. (subs. 15s.) 3 prints in full in both Afrikaans and English an important, detailed and highly topical source-the valuable journal in which Senator F. S. Malan recounted the proceedings of the national convention held at Durban from Oct. 1908 to May 1909 to decide on the form of the proposed Union of South Africa and to draft the new constitution. It makes interesting but unhappy reading in present circum- stances.

Greater Rhodesia : the London Proposals Examined [Salisbury ( S . Rhodesia), Capricorn Africa Soc., 1951, 32 pp., n.p.1 is a pamphlet advocating the union, as a self-governing dominion, of all the British territories from the Limpopo to the Abyssinian border, ' with equal rights for all civilized men and with a race-relations policy which will make that state the welcome trustee of all those peoples within its borders not yet capable of full participation in demo- cratic self-government.' *Zanzibar under U e Foreign Ofice. 1890-1913, by L. W. HOLLINGSWORTH [London. Macmillan, 1953, viii + 232 pp. (maps), 12s 63.1 is a London doctoral thesis, based upon unprinted correspondence of the foreign office and of the colonial office, printed parliamentary papers, reports, and despatches, and on other printed material, both original and secondary. I t gives a lucid account of the complex and vague political situation on the east African coast between 1870 and 1890, and of the involved diplomatic tangle of British, German, Italian and French interests in those parts, which resulted in the proclamation in 1890 of a British protectorate over the Sultanate of Zanzibar and its remaining dependencies after the Germans and the Italians had seized all they could. The main part of the book is devoted to the diplomatic and political events of the years of foreign office control, and to an examination of the effects of British direction, especially in thc suppression of slavery and in effecting administrative and social progress in Zanzibar and Pemba.