Reviews

NEW GUINEA: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS. Peter Hastings. Melbourne, Cheshire, 1969. For the Australian Institute of International Affairs. Pp. 320. $4.95 (hardcover), $3.50 (paperback).

THE EAGLE AND THE LOTUS. J. F. Cairns. Melbourne, Lansdowne Press, 1969. Pp. 240. $4.95 (hardcover), $2.50 (paperback).

INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND THE AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY. R. H. Snape. Melbourne, Longmans, 1969. Pp. vi + 122. $2.50.

THE STERLING AREA, THE COMMONWEALTH AND WORLD ECONOMIC GROWTH. J. O. N. Perkins. Occasional Papers II. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1967. Pp. 120. 17s 6d (U.K.).

NORFOLK ISLAND: AN OUTLINE OF ITS HISTORY 1774–1968. Merval Hoare. St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1969. Pp. 173. $3.95.

BEYOND THE URALS. Violet Conolly. London, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. xx + 420. $11.60.

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN ASIA. R. T. Shand (ed.). Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1969. Pp. 360. $8.50.

JAPAN'S FIRST GENERAL ELECTION, 1890. R. H. P. Mason. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1969. Pp. vii + 254. 42/‐ (U.K.).

KOREA AND THE POLITICS OF IMPERIALISM. C. I. Eugene Kim and Han‐Kyo Kim. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1967. Pp. x + 260. $7.00 (U.S.).

THE RUSSO‐CHINESE WAR. George Alexander Lensen. Tallahassee, The Diplomatic Press, 1967. Pp. 315. $15.00 (U.S.).

THE INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY: SECOND FRONT OF THE INDIAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT. K. K. Ghosh. Meerut, Meenakshi Prakashan, 1969. Pp. xxi + 351. Rs (Indian) 30.

BRITAIN AND THE PERSIAN GULF, 1894–1914. Briton Cooper Busch. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1968. Pp. XVI + 432. $8.75.

ZAMBIA: INDEPENDENCE AND BEYOND. THE SPEECHES OF KENNETH KAUNDA. Colin Legum (ed.) London, Nelson, 1966. Pp. xiii + 265. 35/‐ (U.K.).

THE EISENHOWER PRESIDENCY AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY. David B. Capitanchik. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. Pp. xi + 80. £1 (U.K.).

AUSSENPOLITIK IN ADENAUERS KANZLERDEMOKRATTE. A. Baring. Munich, Forschungsinstitut der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Auswärtige Politik, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1969. Pp. VII + 492.     

MEASURING JUDICIAL PERFORMANCE IN TRIAL COURTS: CONCEPTUAL,EMPIRICAL, AND POLITICAL PROBLEMS*

This article explores some of the issues associated with evaluation of judicial performance. It is argued that measuring judicial performance in trial courts, as the basis for subsequent evaluation, is fraught with problems of definition, counting and interpretation. These problems result from the diversity of judges' work in trial courts, uncertainty as to the importance of speedy resolution of cases and the political environment within which judging takes places.