Reviews (1972)

Forrest, 1847–1918. Volume I, 1847–91: Apprenticeship to Premiership. By F. K. Crowley. University of Queensland Press, 1971. Pp. 323. $12.50. The Rush to be Rich: A History of the Colony of Victoria, 1883–1889. By Geoffrey Serie. Melbourne University Press, 1971. Pp. x + 392. Illustrated. $9.90. Richard Bourke. By Hazel King. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1971. Pp. xvi + 312. $10.95. The Public Lands of Australia Felix: Settlement and Land Appraisal in Victoria 1834–91 with Special Reference to the Western Plains. By J. M. Powell. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1970. Pp. xxix + 328. Maps. $9.75. Arcady in Australia: the Evocation of Australia in Nineteenth Century English Literature. By Coral Lansbury. Melbourne University Press, 1970. Pp. 202. $7.50. Urbanization in Australia. Australian Economic History Review, vol. X, no. 2, Sept. 1970. Pp. 118. $2.00. The Inner Suburbs. The evolution of an industrial area. By Bernard Barrett. Melbourne University Press, 1971. Pp. xvi + 181. Illustrated, $9.00. First the Spring. A History of the Shire of Kojonup, Western Australia. By Merle Bignell. University of Western Australia Press, 1971. Pp. xii + 251. Illustrated. $7.80. A History of Wagga Wagga. By Keith Swan. City of Wagga Wagga, 1970. Pp. xxiii + 218. Illustrated. $4.50. Gold at Ballarat. The Ballarat East Goldfield. Its Discovery and Development. By H. J. Stacpoole. Lowden Publishing Company, Kilmore, 1971. Pp. xii + 95. Illustrated. $5.00. West of the Darling. By Bobbie Hardy. The Jacaranda Press, Melbourne, 1969. Pp. xvii + 270. Illustrated. $6.75. Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne 1870–1970. By Lyndsay Gardiner. Published by the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, 1970. Pp. 227. Illustrated. $5.25. Walter and Eliza Hall Institute 1915–1965. By Sir Macfarlane Burnet. Melbourne University Press, 1971. Pp. xii + 193. Illustrated. $7.95. Australian Silent Films. A Pictorial History 1896–1929. By Eric Reade. Lansdowne, Melbourne, 1970. Pp. 192. Illustrated. $5.50. His Natural Life. By Marcus Clarke. Edited and introduced by Stephen Murray‐Smith. Penguin Books, Ringwood, Vic, 1970. Pp. 927. $2.25. For the Term of His Natural Life. By Marcus Clarke. Introduction by George Ivan Smith. Pacific Books, Angus and Robertson, Melbourne, 1969. Pp. 446. $1.15. Vance Palmer. By Harry Heseltine. University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1970. Pp. viii + 216. $4.95. Neither Toleration nor Favour. The Australian Chapter of Jewish Emancipation. By Israel Getzler, Melbourne University Press, 1970. Pp. ix + 153. $6.60. The Story of Conscription in Australia. By Leslie C. Jauncey. Macmillan of Australia, Melbourne, 1968. Pp. xx + 365. Illustrated. $3.60. Conscription. The Australian Debate, 1901–1970. Edited and introduced by J. M. Main. Cassell Australia, Melbourne, 1970. Pp. 170. $3.50. Albert A. Hayden, ‘New South Wales Immigration Policy 1856–1900’, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1971. Pp. 60. No price given. Conflicts in French Society. Anticlericalism Education and Morals in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Theodore Zeldin. St. Antony's College, Oxford, Publications No. 1. Allen and Unwin, London, 1971. Pp. 236. £2.75. Politicians at War: July 1914 to May 1915. By Cameron Hazlehurst. Jonathan Cape, London, 1971. Pp. 346. $10.60. The Sense of Power. Studies in the Ideas of Canadian Imperialism, 1867–1914. By Carl Berger, University of Toronto Press, 1970. Pp. 277. $Can.l0.95; paperback ed., 1971, $Can.2.95. Speeches and Documents on New Zealand History. Edited by W. D. McIntyre and W. J. Gardner. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1971. Pp. 489. $7.00. Origins of Hydraulic Mining in California. By Philip Ross May. Holmes Book Company, Oakland, California, 1970. Pp. 80. $US6.95. Gold Town: Ross, Westland. By Philip Ross May. The Pegasus Press, Christchurch, N.Z., 1970. Pp. 104. $NZ5.00. Five Hundred Years: A History of South Africa. Edited by G. F. J. Muller. Academica, Pretoria and Cape Town, 1969. Pp. 467. R.5.95. A Short History of India. By I. W. Mabbett. Cassell Australia, North Melbourne, 1968. Pp. 270. Cloth $4.75; paper $3.50. Colonialisme et Contradictions. Etude sur les causes socio‐historiques de l'Insurrection de 1878 en Nouvelle‐Calédonie. By Rosèlene Dousset. Mouton and Co., Paris, 1970. Pp. 208. Fr. 36. The United States Navy in the Pacific, 1909–1922. By William Reynolds Braisted. University of Texas Press, Austin and London, 1971. Pp. xii + 741. Maps. US$15.00.