Intersections: history,memory, discipline. By Brij V. Lal. Lautoka

Bellona Island Beliefs and Rituals. By Torben Monberg. Pacific Islands Monograph Series No. 9. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1991. xix, 449 pp, figs, genealogies, maps, photos, tables, bibliog., index. $US42.

Te Waimana, The Spring of Mana: Tuhoe History and the Colonial Encounter. By Jeffrey Sissons. Te Whenua Series No. 6, Pacific People, Land, and Literature. Dunedin, University of Otago Press, 1991. xiv, 304 pp; maps, photos, figs, gloss., bibliog., index. ISBN 0–908569–59–9. $NZ39.95.

Labour in the South Pacific. Edited by Clive Moore, Jacqueline Leckie and Doug Munro. Townsville, James Cook University, 1990. 335 pp, maps, tables, bibliog., index.

Health and Healing in Tropical Australia and Papua New Guinea. Edited by Roy MacLeod and Donald Denoon. Townsville, James Cook University, Department of History and Politics and Centre for Melanesian Studies, 1991. xviii, 213 pp, intro., notes, bibliog., index. $A16 ($A25 outside Australia including postage).

Beach‐la‐Mar to Bislama: the emergence of a national language in Vanuatu. By Terry Crowley. Oxford Studies in Language Contact. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990. xxi, 422 pp. $A120.

The Mundugumor: From the Field Notes of Margaret Mead and Reo Fortune. By Nancy McDowell. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. xiii, 337 pp.

Singer in a Songless Land: A Life of Edward Tregear 1846—1931. By K, R. Howe. Auckland, Auckland University Press, 1991. 241 pp. $NZ39.95.

The Empty Place: Poetry, Space and Being among the Foi of Papua New Guinea. By James S. Weiner. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1991. xiv, 218 pp, maps, illus., bibliog., index.

On the Margins of History: From the Punjab to Fiji. By Oskar Spate. History of Development Studies 3. Canberra, National Centre for Development Studies, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1991. 142 pp, app. $25.     

North Indian Notes and Queries,Vol. V

Life and Work of the People of England. A Pictorial Record from Contemporary Sources. By Dorothy Hartley and Margaret M. Elliot. Vols. ii (The Fourteenth Century) and v (The Seventeenth Century). B. T. Batsford, Ltd. 9?" x 6½". Pp. 38, 38. Pl. 49, 49. 4s. 6d. ea. bds., 5s. 6d. cloth.     

忆阿老

伊万·瓦西里耶维奇·阿尔希波夫于1907年5月1日生于俄罗斯,1951年至1958年担任苏联援华专家组总负责人、中国政府经济总顾问,为新中国的国民经济恢复和第一个五年计划建设做出了巨大贡献,受到周恩来总理的表彰。历任苏联部长会议对外经济联络委员会第一副主席、苏联部长会议第一副主席等职。1986年,当选为苏中友好协会第一副主席;1992年,担任俄中友好协会名誉主席,直至1998年病逝。今年4月24日,中国对外友好协会、中俄友好协会举办了纪念阿尔希波夫诞辰100周年座谈会。商务部部长薄熙来,对外友协会长兼中俄友协会长陈昊苏,中国慈善总会会长、中俄友协顾问阎明复,中国社科院副院长兼当代中国研究所所长、中俄友协副会长朱佳木,以及俄罗斯驻华商务参赞齐普拉科夫,俄中友协常务副会长库里阔娃等在会上发了言。现将阎明复、朱佳木的发言刊登于下,以缅怀这位中国人民的老朋友。     

A. V. Dicey and English constitutionalism

The jurist A. V. Dicey’s study of the Law of the Constitution (1885) has been since its publication the dominant analysis of the British constitution and the source of orthodoxy on such subjects as parliamentary sovereignty and the rule of law. This canonical status has obscured the originality of Dicey’s ideas in the history of legal and political thought. Dicey reworked the traditional idea of sovereignty into two separate concepts – legal and political sovereignty – in order to square the common law notion of the sovereignty of parliament with the democratic idea of the sovereignty of the people. He forged a new concept – ‘the rule of law’ – to explain the legal basis of liberty in common law countries in a manner that was both Benthamite and constitutionalist. Finally, he provided a democratic and anti-federalist rationale for maintaining the Union of Great Britain and Ireland. This majoritarian, centralist and utilitarian constitutionalism has been one of the most enduring products of Victorian scholarship. This article seeks to recover it in its original context and, in so doing, to show the value of reintegrating legal thought into the mainstream of modern British history and the history of political thought.