WEN Lattimore has already earned a high place as aw: iter on the movements of population in Mongolia and Chinese Turkistan; on the nomadic "reservoir" that from time tg time fills and spills out into the agriculturally des ible oases. His present book, "Inner Asian Fi tiers of China" (American Geographical Society, New York, U.S.$4), brings to a focus the ideas expressed in his many previous individually published studies, and is a historical interpretation of the processes that have determined the pol ical and cultural frontiers of China, Border and steppe warfare were 30 common in the history of China that the conditions bred many able fighters. "A footnote criticism of Parker's "A Thousand Years of the Tartars™ made by Mr. Lattimore is that the treatment is too anecdotal, Mr. Lat Limore is of pains to show that each type of life and cconomy—the agri cultural and. the steppe type had its "norm." the steppe life standing" Sor _self-sumeien and severance from agricultural China; and that it is a great mistake consider the nomad horde" as a swarm of irresistible numbers: with out organization. But the norm of "where neither but both were
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