OBITUARIES

The crime of Claudius Ptolemy. By Robert R. Newton. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London. Pp. 411. Illustrated. Price £15.75.

London map‐sellers 1660–1720. A collection of advertisements for maps placed in the London Gazette 1668–1719 with biographical notes on the map‐sellers. By Sarah Tyacke. Tring, Hertfordshire, Map Collector Publications Limited, 1978. Pp. 160, illustrated. Price £12.

Heinrich Berghaus: der Kartograph von Potsdam. By Gerhard Enmglemann. Halle: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, 1977. 411p.: ill.; 24cm. Acta Historica Leopoldina; Nr 10.

Vývoj mapového zobrazení Slovenska [The development of mapping of Slovakia]. By Lubomír Viliam Prikryl. SAV Bratislava, 1977. Pp. 481, illustrated.

John Cary, Engraver, Map, Chart and Print‐Seller and Globe‐Maker 1714 to 1831. By Sir Herbert George Fordham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1925. Reprinted by Wm. Dawsons &; Sons Ltd. 1976.     

THE MAGDALENIAN SANCTUARY OF THE CAVE OF LABASTIDE (HAUTES-PYRÉNÉES, FRANCE)

Summary. The parietal art in the cave of Labastide was discovered in 1932 by Norbert Casteret, the spelaeologist, but another 50 years were to pass before an exhaustive inventory was made of these figures, followed by their publication. The study of the parietal art has revealed a sanctuary with a predetermined layout in which the main panels were specially devoted to large figures representing a central Bison-Horse theme. The cave is also of interest because of the discovery of traces of 'Magdalenian IV' occupation (14,260 b.p.): about twenty small, engraved stone slabs display stylistic analogies with the parietal art, and are the best means of dating it.     

COUPLES À DOUBLE EMPLOI ET HÉTÉROGÉNÉITÉ SOCIALE DANS LES QUARTIERS DE MONTRÉAL

Les couples à double emploi, c'est-à-dire ceux où chacun des conjoints occupe un emploi rémunéré, posent d'em-blée la question des liens entre les rapports hommes-femmes et les rapports entre classes sociales (Bonney 1988). Ces couples doivent négocier quotidiennement les effets locaux des rapports structurels de travail et de pouvoir entre hommes et femmes, et souvent trouver des aménagements nouveaux qui, à terme, modifient ces rapports structurels (Le Bourdais, Hamel et Bernard 1987; Ross 1987).     

SHORTER NOTICES

The Mohammadan Dynasties, by S. Lane-Poole. Averroes' Commentary on Plato's ‘Republic,’ edited with an Introduction, Translation and Notes by E. I. J. Rosenthal.     

SHORTER NOTICES

An Introduction to Islamism: Hul-chiao Kai-lun. By Hsieh Sung-t'ao.
Arabic-English Dictionary, The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. Ithaca