端纳致田伯烈函

1938年10月24日端纳(W.H.Donald)随蒋介石离开汉口,视察鄂、湘、赣、桂前方阵地,12月前往重庆。同年12月28日和次年1月1日,端纳分两次给田伯烈(H.J.Timperley)写了这封长信,详细介绍他随蒋介石视察的所见所闻。     

宋子文、孔祥熙与国民政府的税制改革

中国封建社会的税收制度延续两千多年,到民国北京政府时期已被废弃,但新的资本主义税收制度还没有建立起来,财政税收特别混乱,致使北京政府根本没有什么税收可言,只能靠借债度日。南京国民政府成立后,极力改变这种状况,大力进行税制改革。宋子文出任财长时,基本上完成国、地税收系统的划分,并同时进行了对中央税收制度的改革。孔祥熙接任财长后,又对地方税收制度进行整顿和改革。在他们的精心策划和推动下,中国的资本主义财政税收制度已初步建立起来。一、对中央税制的整顿和改革宋子文出任财长后,首先划分了中央和地方财政收支…     

赫·维·伊瓦特与澳大利亚独立外交

伊瓦特是澳大利亚现代史上杰出的外交家、政治家与法学家。他在任职澳大利亚外交部长的九年间 ,不仅从英国手中夺回外交与国防的独立大权 ,而且确立了与亚洲友好交往的新亚洲政策 ,他是澳大利亚独立外交的设计师 ,从而使其祖国自立于世界独立国家之林。伊瓦特在国际舞台上纵横捭阖 ,叱咤风云 ,博得了世人一次次喝彩。正当他声誉日隆时 ,工党在 1 94 9年下台 ,他也因此下台。随着政局的变化 ,澳大利亚的外交政策也发生了变化 ,但到 2 0世纪 70年代 ,澳大利亚有远见的政治家纠正了错误 ,继续推行伊瓦特所确立的独立外交与新亚洲政策。伊瓦特是一位有功于国家的外交家。     

端纳有关汪精卫出逃情况致田伯烈的信

端纳是蒋委员长和蒋夫人的有名的澳籍顾问。下面这段材料采自端纳最近给田伯烈的一封信。田伯烈为本刊亚洲问题顾问,现居伦敦(原载于《The World Digest》China Publisher Y．M．C.A,1940。该信函刊出时略去了收信人及发信人落款、时间)。     

H.G. Wells and the New Liberalism

This article offers a new interpretation of H.G. Wells's politicalthought in the Edwardian period and beyond. Scholars have emphasisedhis socialism at the expense of his commitment to liberalism,and have misread his novel The New Machiavelli as an anti-Liberaltract. Wells spent much effort in the pre-1914 period in thequest for a ‘new Liberalism’, and did not believethat socialists should compete directly with the Liberal Partyfor votes. It was this latter conviction that lay behind hismuch misunderstood dispute with the Fabian Society. His politicalsupport for Churchill was one sign of his belief in the compatibilityof liberalism and socialism, in which he was far from uniqueat the time. He also engaged, somewhat idiosyncratically, withthe ‘servile state’ concept of Hilaire Belloc. Althoughhe did not articulate his Liberal identity with complete consistency,he did so with increasing intensity as the First World War approached.This helps explain why key New Liberal politicians includingChurchill, Lloyd George and Masterman responded to his ideassympathetically. The extent of engagement between Wells andthe ‘New Liberalism’ was such that he deserves tobe considered alongside Green, Ritchie, Hobson and Hobhouseas one of its prophets.     

Dr John H. Kenneth

A technique for the detailed assessment of terrain capability is described. The method is used to evaluate the terrain capability of 81 sample farms in North East Scotland. The relevance of the technique is assessed by an analysis to determine the influence of terrain capability on type of farming. Results are also presented to indicate that farmers’ perception of their land type may be different to its actual capability. The need for a flexible approach to terrain capability evaluation is stressed.     

Obituaries Professor S. H. Hooke

MY FIRST HUNDRED YEARS. By MARGARET MURRAY. London, W. Kimber, 1963. Pp. 208 + 5 plates (portraits). Reviewed by Wilfrid Bonser.

ARTE POPOLARE ITALIANA. By PAOLO TOSCHI. Rome, Carlo Bestetti — Edizioni d'Arte, 1960. Pp. 451 + 553 plates and over 90 unnumbered popular prints, and bibliography. 15,000 lire. (A supplementary booklet of 31 pp. contains a shortened text, and picture captions in English.) Reviewed by Francis Celoria.

TRADIZIONI POPOLARI NEL ‘DECAMERON’. By MARIA PIA GIARDINI. Biblioteca di ‘Lares’, Vol. XX. Florence, L. S. Olschki, 1965. Pp. X, 91. 1,800 lire. Reviewed by Francis Celoria.

CANTI POPOLARI ISTRIANI. By GIUSEPPE RADOLE. Biblioteca D. ‘Lares’, Vol. XIX. Florence, L. S. Olschki, 1965. Pp. XXX, 231. Lire 4,000. Reviewed by Francis Celoria.

HISTORISCHE SCHICHTEN DER UNGARISCHEN VOLKSDICHTUNG. By IMRE KATONA. FF Communications No. 194. Helsinki (Academia Scientiarum Fennica) 1964. Pp. 36. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

DAS HEILIGE UND DIE WELT DER ARBEIT AM BEISPIEL DER VEREHRUNG DES PROPHETEN DANIEL IM MONTANWESEN MITTELEUROPAS. By GERHARD HEILFURTH. 2nd ed. Marburg (N. G. Elwert Verlag) 1965. Pp. 31.20 plates. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

JAHRBUCH FÜR OSTDEUTSCHE VOLKSKUNDE. Vol. viii. Marburg (N. G. Elwert Verlag) 1964. Pp. 290, 2 maps, 1 text ill., 1 photograph. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE HOLY LAND. By KATHLEEN KENYON. University Paperbacks, Methuen 1965. Pp. 328.25s. net. Reviewed by E. O. James.

THE FORMATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. By R. M. GRANT. Hutchinson University Library, 1965. Pp. 196, 15s. net. Reviewed by E. O. James.

GENETICS AND PREHISTORY. By SIR GAVIN DE BEER. The Rede Lecture, 1965. Cambridge University Press, 1965. Pp. 37.5s. net. Reviewed by E. O. James.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF OLD NORSE-ICELANDIC STUDIES, 1963, edited by H. Bekker-Nielsen and T. D. Olsen, Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 1964. Pp.64. Reviewed by H. R. Ellis Davidson.

FORM AND FABLE IN AMERICAN FICTION. By DANIEL HOFFMAN. New York, Oxford University Press, 1965. (A Galaxy Book.) Pp. xvi, 368. $1.95. Reviewed by Richard M. Dorson.

ESKIMO. By E. CARPENTER, F. VARLEY and R. FLAHERTY. University of Toronto Press, 1964. Reviewed by W. R. Mead.

MARRIAGE CUSTOMS IN SYRIA (Taqālīd al-zawāj fi '1-iqlīm al-sūrī). Published 1961. Pp. 183. Illustrated. Text in Arabic; French captions added under most of the illustrations. Reviewed by A. S. Tritton.

A HANDBOOK ON WITCHES. By GILLIAN TINDALL. Arthur Barker Ltd. 1965. 21s. Reviewed by K. M. Briggs.

THEORIES OF PRIMITIVE RELIGION. By E. E. EVANS-PRITCHARD. Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1965. 25s. Reviewed by E. P. Baker.