SHORTER NOTICES

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SHORTER NOTICES

Prelude to 1937. By F. J. C. Hearnshaw. John Murray. 180 pp. (5s net.) Professor Hearnshaw sketches the development of "the critical years, A.D. 1931-1936." Notable sections are devoted to the great slump, the collapse of German democracy, the Roosevelt regime, India, the breakdown of the League of Nations. Maps of the British Isles, Europe, and the world complete the book. The Empire of the Nabobs. A Short History of British India. , By Lester Hutchinson. Allen and Unwin. 277 pp. (7s Gd net.) Mr Hutchinson's history, which is written from the point of view of a Socialist economist, brings the story of the British occupation and control of India from the first period of seizure and exploitation up to the new departure of the Government of India Act, the effect of which, in his view, will be "to strengthen greatly the imperialist hold of India." The Empire Yesterday and To-day. By Stephen King-Hall. Oxford University Press. 101 pp. (3s 9d.) Commander King-Hall reviews the expansion of the Empire and the development of its constitutional organisation. His final chapter is one on Empire problems of the present time, and naturally completes his first, which explores the ideal and practical reasons why the well-being of the Empire is to be considered "vital to the future of civilisation." Practical Time-Travel. By Colin Bennett. Rider and Co. 192 pp. (8s). Through Whitcombc and Tombs Ltd. "How to Reach Back to Past Lives by Occult Means."—The-author describes various methods by which, he says, the reincarnated spirit may recall its life in previous incarnations. First Principles. By Herbert Spencer. Reissued with an introduction by T. W. Hill, Secretary to the Herbert Spencer Trustees. Watts and Co. The place of "First Principles" in the history of evolutionary philosophy, if not the validity of its argument, justifies its being reprinted to-day. .