Six pages are given to the communist movement in China. The author asks why China was more open to communistic influences than other Asiatic countries. Her answer Miss Graves writes: enough that recent more than is that in China the religious and historical barriers against communist ideology are infinitely weaker than those in Turkey, Japan or India. Miss Graves sees in the Eighth Route Army a historical counterpart in European history in 1848, when the demands of nationalism were triumphant over the forces of liberalism.
The biographical appendix gives excellent short biographies of more than sixty socialist leaders. The bibliography, arranged by countries, gives a guide for further reading and Study. Altogether Miss Graves's book fulfils its aim—a short history of socialism with a balanced emphasis on the main trends of the movement. verance" (Thornton Butterworth, London. 7/6) is one of the much lighter books, so light-that one would hardly miss it—one is not surprised to read that it is a first attempt, and it is only to be hoped that if and when there are other attempts by the same author they will be more successful. The book is badly constructed and badly written, and there is not a line in it which carries conviction—the characters are unreal, the dialogue futile, and the attempts at humour failures. To anyone who knows Hongkong and Kowloon it is tiresome to read of Hongloon as the scene of operations. The hero is one Tony Blake, who becomes Secretary to the Governor of Hongloon, and this story is an account of his activities in that post and, after his resignation following upon a charge of being res. ponsible for a leakage of official se-crews, of his adventures on a voyage in a sailing ship, Anyone who wants to know how people at Government House, Hongloon, or Hongkong or any other place do not behave, should read this book.—&.rcM.
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