Book Notes
| Date | 01 February 1960 |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9248.1960.tb01131.x |
| Published date | 01 February 1960 |
| Subject Matter | Book Notes |
BOOK
NOTES
SAMPLE
copies of four new periodicals have been received. (1)Awelcome must be extended
to
Res Publica,
the review of the Belgian Institute
of
Political Science,
the
first number
of which appeared in
1959.
This is
to
come out twice yearly and the annual subscription
is
250
francs. The Editor is Professor
LRo
Moulin of the College
of
Europe at Bruges. The first
number contains an introduction by the President of the Belgian Institute of Political
Science and the following contents: ‘L‘unionisme institutionnel de Uopold
Ier’
by A. Simon;
‘Aux frontitres du droit constitutionnel et de la science politique’ by AndrC Mast; ‘Note
sur le principe du contrale des organismes d‘intCr&t public’ by
LRo
Moulin; ‘Le contrale
de l’entreprise publique en Belgique. Pages de documentation et d’histoire’ by Victor
Crabbe; ‘Le recensement linguistique du
ler
janvier
1960,
ou
naissance, vie et mort
d‘un
recensement’ by Paul M.
G.
Levy; ‘Chronique de bibliographie gknkrale sur la vie et sur
les questions politiques de Belgique’ by The Secretariat of the Institute.
(2)
The Research
Department of the Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Lavoratori has sent in the second
issue of the first volume of their new journal
Politica Sindacale.
This is
to
appear every two
months and it takes the place of the former
Bollettino di Studi e Statistiche
which ran from
1953.
(3)
The Imre Nagy Institute for Political Research is publishing in Brussels
a
journal
called
The Review.
The first number of this appeared
on
17
June
1959.
An editorial explains
that ‘the setting up of the Imre Nagy Institute for Political Research and the publication
of
this periodical was decided and carried
out
by Hungarian intellectuals who, as Imre Nagy’s
former collaborators and followers were obliged
to
leave their fatherland after the defeat
of
the
1956
revolution’.
(4)
Vol.
2,
no.
1
of
The Oxford Lawyer
has come in. This is pub-
lished twice yearly by the editors at Christ Church, Oxford, and the subscription is
7s.
a
year. The short articles in the present number include one
on
the Waters tribunal by Pro-
fessor
J.
D.
B. Mitchell
of
Edinburgh.
Amongst recent UNESCO publications are Vol. ix, nos.
1
and
2,
1959,
of
International
Political Science Abstracts
(Blackwell,
12s.
each); the
1958
volume of
Basic Facts and
Figures
on education, culture, and mass communication (pp.
142,
10s.);
Vol.
x,
no.
2
for
1957
of the
UNESCO Copyright Bulletin
(pp.
99, 7s.);
a report in the series of reports and
papers in the social sciences entitled
Znternational Repertory
of
Institutions conducting
Population Studies
(pp.
240, 12s. 6d.);
vol.
xi,
no.
2,
of the
International Social Science
Journal
which has a special series of articles
on
the teaching of the social sciences in the
U.S.S.R. (pp.
150, 10s.);
Statistics
of
Newspapers and other Periodicals
(pp.
70,
5s.);
and
in the ‘Population and Culture’ series,
The Cultural Integration
of
Immigrants
by W.
D.
Borrie, with case studies by other authors, all based
on
the papers and proceedings of the
UNESCO Conference held
in
Havana in April
1956
(pp.
297, 15s.).
No.
78,
for
1959,
of the
Boletin de la Biblioteca del Congreso
of the Argentine Republic
has been received (pp.
464,
N.P.)
A
Study
of
History.
Vol.
XI:
Historical Atlas and Gazetteer
(published for the Royal
Institute of International Affairs by Oxford University Press,
1959,
pp. x
+
257,
35s.)
is the
work of Professors Arnold Toynbee and Edward Myers. There are three parts: a useful
gazetteer with descriptions of geographical names and references to the relevant volume and
page
of
the
Study,
a
series of maps in one or two colours, and a full index.
The materials on Inca Peru are bizarre, extensive, incomplete, and contaminated and have,
almost inevitably, became the happy hunting ground for social theorists and for cranks.
Dr.
Sally Falk Moore
(Power and Property in Inca Peru,
Columbia University Press; London,
Oxford University Press, pp.
x+
190,40s.)
knows this and has attempted, in her own words,
‘to
wring
out
of the sources whatever they would yield
of
precise information on law and
government’. She has succeeded in
so
far
that her picture of legal property relations and
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