Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: THE ROYAL POLICY OF RICHARD II: Absolutism in the Later Middle Ages. By Richard H. Jones, REVOLUTION POLITICKS: The Career of Daniel Finch, Second Earl of Nottingham, 1647–1730 By Henry Horwitz. THE ABERDEEN COALITION 1852–1855: A Study in Mid‐Nineteenth Century Politics. By J. B. Conacher. COMMUNISM IN EUROPE: Continuity, Change and the Sino‐Soviet Dispute. Edited by William E. Griffith POLLBOOKS: How Victorians Voted. By J. R. Vincent. BRITAIN AND THE BALANCE OF POWER IN NORTH AMERICA 1815–1908. By Kenneth Bourne. AMERICA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: A Study of the United States since 1917. By D. K. Adams. CHURCH WEALTH IN MEXICO: A Study of the ‘Juzgado de Capellanias’ in the Archbishoprics of Mexico 1800–1856. By Michael P. Costeloe, THE DYNAMIC OF MEXICAN NATIONALISM. By Frederick C. Turner. ASIAN FRONTIERS: Studies in a Continuing Problem. By Alastair Lamb. THE FIRST AFGHAN WAR 1838–1842. By J. A. Norris. AFGHANISTAN 1900–1923: A Diplomatic History. By Ludwig W. Adamec. SOUNDINGS IN MODERN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY. Edited by D. A. Low. Canberra, JAPAN'S RADIO WAR ON AUSTRALIA 1941–1945. By L. D. Meo. Melbourne, BRITISH SHIPPING AND AUSTRALIA 1920–1939. By Kevin Burley. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA: A Short History 1788–1967. By Patrick O'Farrell. SQUATTER, SELECTOR AND STOREKEEPER: A History of the Darling Downs 1859–1893. By D. B. Waterson. THE COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA: Origins and Early History. By Robin Gollan. THE BATTLE FOR THE BANKS. By A. L. May. Sydney, CONSCRIPTION IN AUSTRALIA. Edited by Roy Forward and Bob Reece. PROFESSOR OF DEMOCRACY: The Life of Charies Henry Pearson 1830–1894. Oxford Don and Australian Radical. By John Tregenza. A HANDBOOK OF AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS 1890–1964. Edited by C. A. Hughes and B. D. Graham. SPECIALISTS AND GENERALISTS: A Comparative Study of the Professional Civil Servant at Home and Abroad. Edited by F. F. Ridley.