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《近代中国学术思想史》解说今人所谓学术思想史,大都各人的见识,而不等于历史的事实。不仅后人的著述如此,即使当事者的记录,立场不同,看法各异,至多只能存此一说,反映了史事的某些方面,而不能断言全部事实就是如此或只是如此。之所以横看成岭侧成峰,原因还在各人所处位置及其见识的远近高低各不同,时空位置有异,心中形象有别。将高下之分认作见仁见智固然有害,高明者的英雄所见略同之下,也不止是小歧,梁启超与钱穆关于中国近三百年学术史的看法迥异,便是显例。要在走马灯式的历史图卷和万花筒般的历史认识中学会四面看山,八面受敌,从你方…     

Book Reviews and Short Notices

De Villiers, P., La Chienne qui miaule (Albin Michel, 1990), 219 pp., 85F., ISBN 2 226 04131 1

De Villiers, P., Notre Europe sans Maastricht (Albin Michel, 1992), 156 pp., 80F., ISBN 2 226 06135 5

De Villiers, P., Avant qu'il ne soit trop tard (Albin Michel, 1993), 244pp., 89F., ISBN 2 226 06159 2

De Villiers, P., La Société de connivence ou comment faire avaler des serpents à sonnette (Albin Michel, 1994), 181 pp., 89F., ISBN 2 226 06918 6

De Villiers, P., Dictionnaire du politiquement correct à la française (Albin Michel, 1996), 201 pp., 89F., ISBN 2 226 08555 6     

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“A HISTORY OF SOUTH‐EAST ASIA.” by D. G. E. Hall. (Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London. 1955), pp. xvi plus 807. (Australian price, 62/‐.)

“ONE MAN IN HIS TIME.” by N. M. Borodin. D.Sc. London. Constable. 19SS. Pp. 8 and 344.     

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COSTA RICA. A Study in Economic Development. By Stacy May (Director), Just Faaland, Albert P. Koch, Howard L. Parsons, and Clarence Senior. The Twentieth Century Fund, New York. Published in Great Britain by George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1952. Two end‐maps, nine appendices and 52 tables. Pp. xiv and 374. Price $3.

FRIENDS and NEIGHBOURS—Australia and the World. By the Rt. Hon. R. G. Casey, C.H., D.S.O., M.C., M.P. Melbourne: F. W. Cheshire, 1954 Pp. 166.

IRAQ 1900 TO 1950—A Political, Social and Economic Study, by Stephen Hemsley Longrigg, issued under the auspices of the R.I.I.A., Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1953. Pp. 436. Price 57/.

THE STORY OF AUSTRALIA. By A. G. L. Shaw. Faber and Faber, London, 1955. Pp. 308. Map, illustrations. 15/‐stg.

ECONOMIC PLANNING UNDER FREE ENTERPRISE, by Henry Grayson. Public Affairs Press, Washington, D.C., 1954. Pp. x plus 134.     

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R aoul M ortley : Connaissance Religieuse et Herméneutique chez Clément ďAlexandrie
C hristopher H aigh : Reformation and Resistance in Tudor Lancashire. London and New York
M. W. A nderson : Peter Martyr: a Reformer in Exile: a Chronology of the Biblical Writings in England and Europe
E lliot R ose : Cases of Conscience: Alternatives Open to Recusants and Puritans under Elizabeth I and James I. London and New York
G. R. R. T reasure : Cardinal Richelieu and the Development of Absolutism
D ietrich B laufuss : Spener-Arbeiten; Quellenstudien und Untersuchungen zu Philipp Jacob Spener und zur frühen Wirkung des lutherischen Pietismus. Bern and Frankfurt/M.
B. J. M ijuskovic : The Achilles of Rationalist Arguments. The Hague, Nijhoff
F rank E. M anuel : The Religion of Isaac Newton. Oxford, Clarendon Press
B arry C hant : Heart of Fire: The Story of Australian Pentecostalism. Adelaide
J oseph A mato : Mounter and Maritain: A French Catholic Understanding of the Modern World. University, Alabama, University of Alabama Press     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Études d'Archéologie Provençale. A. J. PARKER
Medieval Pottery from Excavations. Studies presented to Gerald Clough Dunning. VERA I. EVISON, H. HODGES and J. G. HURST
The great wrecks of the Great Lake. FREDERICK STONEHOUSE
The Longshoremen. ROY CLARK
The sea chart. An historical survey based on the collections in the National Maritime Museum. DEREK HOWSE and MICHAEL SANDERSON
Marine salvage. JOSEPH N. GORES
Port Royal, Jamaica: excavations 1969–70. PHILIP MAYES
Port Royal rediscovered. ROBERT F. MARX     

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Oxford World Atlas prepared by the Cartographic Department, Clarendon Press, Saul B. Cohen, geographic editor The Settlement of Polynesia by Michael Levison, R. Gerard Ward and John Webb Urbanisation in New Zealand edited by R. J. Johnston, A. H. and A. W. Reed Geomorphology in Deserts by Ronald U. Cooke and Andrew Warren     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Méthodes classiques et méthodes for-melles dans l'étude des amphores. PAUL ARTHUR
Boats, rafts, ships. WOLFGANG RUDOLPH. Trans. from the German by T. L. FEININGER
The Armada in Ireland. NIALL FALLON
Tools of the maritime trades. JOHN E. HORSLEY
Shipping: a survey of historical records. P. MATHIAS and A. W. H. PEARSALL
Marine transport: a guide to libraries and sources of information. D. N. ALLUM, R. V. BOLTON and D. S. BUCHANAN
Data Book: THE BRITISH SOCIETY OF UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHERS (BSUP)     

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Book reviewed in this article: Australian Urban Policy. Objectives and Opinions , by Max Neutze Ideology, Science and Human Geography by D. Gregory Humanistic Geography: Prospects and Problems , edited by David Ley and Marwyn Samuels Last of Lands — Antarctica , by J. F. Lovering and J. R. V. Prescott Science for Physical Geographers, by D. A. Davidson, Edward Arnold Heat Budget Atlas of the Tropical Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Oceans , by Stefan Hastenrath and Peter J. Lamb     

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Book reviewed in this article: Australian Cities and Public Policy, edited by Peter Scott Geomorphology of Papua New Guinea , by Ernest Loffler Employment Incomes and Migration in Papua New Guinea Towns , by R. Garnaut, M. Wright, R. Curtain. 17 times 25 cms, xiü and 212 pages, 120 tables. Monograph 6 Wilderness in Australia — Eastern NSW and South Eastern Queensland , by Peter Helman, Alan Jones, John Pigram, and Jeremy Smith The Australian Climatic Environment , by E. Linacre and J. Hobbs     

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KALIMI, ISAAC, An Ancient Israelite Historian: Studies in the Chronicler, His Time, Place and Writing, Studia Semitica Neerlandica 46, Assen: Van Gorcum, 2005. Pp. x + 212. Hardcover. € 79.50. ISBN 9023240715.     

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My Uncle Napoleon, Iraj Pezeshkzad, trans. Dick Davis, Washington, D.C.: Mage Publishers, 1996, 512 pp., $29.95.

Les textes vieil‐avestiques, vol. I: Introduction, text et traduction, Jean Kellens and Eric Pirart, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 1988, 195 pp.

Reading Nasta^cliq: Persian and Urdu Hands from 1500 to the Present, William L. Hanaway and Brian Spooner, Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, 1995, 278 pp.

Az Nima ta Ruzagar‐e Ma: Tarikh‐e Adab‐e Farsi‐ye Mo^caser (From Nima to Our Time: History of Contemporary Persian Letters), Yahya Arianpur, Tehran: Zavvar, 1374 (1995), 638 pp. + 48 pp. of photographs, title‐page reprints, etc.

The Green Sea of Heaven: Fifty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz, trans. Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., with an Introduction by Daryush Shayegan, Ashland, Ore.: White Cloud Press, 1995, x + 170 pp.

The Hafez Poems of Gertrude Bell, with the original Persian on the facing page, Bethesda, Md.: Iranbooks, 1995, 176 pp.

Iran und Turfan: Beiträge Berliner Wissenschaftler, Werner Sunder‐mann zum 60. Geburtstaggewidmet, ed. Christiane Reck and Peter Zieme, Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 1995, viii + 296 pp., photographs.

The History of al‐Tabari, vol. XXXIII: Storm and Stress Along the Northern Frontiers of the ^cAbbasid Caliphate, trans. and annot. C. E. Bosworth, Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies and Bibliotheca Persica, State University of New York Press, 1991.

Tales of Two Cities, Abbas Milani, Washington, D.C.: Mage, 1996, 263 pp., $24.95.

Avicenna and I: The Journey of Spirits, Manouchehr Parvin, Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, 1996, 284 pp., $26.95 (cloth).

In A Voice of Their Own: A Collection of Stories by Iranian Women Written since the Revolution of 1979, trans. Franklin Lewis and Farzin Yazdanfar, Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, 1996, 153 pp.