Quick Looks

And Some

Although the Bishop Museum

Press of Honolulu is apparently built along the lines of Ol’ Man River, it never seems to be roll

ing along quite fast enough to

keep up with the numerous learned papers on the Pacific that it is called upon to produce.

THUS it is only now that the Press has managed to publish a col lection of papers presented in a symposium on Induced Political Change in the Pacific at the Tenth Pacific Science Congress of the Pacific Science Association held at the University of Hawaii in 1961.

The titles and authors of the papers are: Political Change in Micronesia (Roland W. Force and Maryanne Force); Personality and Structure: Political Acquiescence in Truk (Marc J. Swartz); Three American Legis lative Bodies in the Pacific (Norman Meller); Administrative Problems Facing Independent Western Samoa (Fay C. Ala’ilima); The Effect of Limited Anthropological Theory on Problems of Fijian Administration (Cyril S. Belshaw) and Changing Leadership in Western New Guinea (J. V. de Bruijn).

Two other recent publications from the Bishop Museum Press are: • In Gardens of Hawaii, by

Marie C. Neal, a weighty tome of 924 pages, describing, with the help of numerous drawings and photo graphs, the variegated flora of Hawaii. • Trails—From Steppingstones to Kerbstones, by Russell A. Apple, which tells the story of a search for old land routes on the island of Hawaii.

(Induced Political Change In

The Pacific; In Gardens Of Hawaii

And Trails —From Steppingstones

TO KERBSTONES. Bishop Museum Press.

US$3.5O, US$l5.OO and US$3.OO res pectively), THE rugged American novelist Jack London, who committed suicide in 1916 at the age of 40, is currently enjoying something of a revival. Evidence of this is the third volume of The Bodley Head Jack London, which republishes London’s somewhat autobiographical novel Martin Eden. The novel was first published in 1909. The volume has an introduction by Arthur Calder- Marshall, who wrote introductions to the two earlier volumes in the series.

These contained The Call of the Wild and 17 short stories; and John Barleycorn, The Cruise of the Dazzler and The Road.

(The Bodley Head Jack London.

The Bodley Head, London. 31/6.) WITH Christmas only a few weeks away, the anthologies of this and that that seem to burgeon at this time of the year are beginning to— well—burgeon.

One book in this class that will probably do well among gift-buyers is An Overland Muster, a selection of stories, poems, articles and critic ism from the vigorous Australian literary magazine Overland of the last 10 years.

The book, a most attractive pro duction, is edited by Stephen Murray-

Smith, Overland’s editor.

RL.

(AN OVERLAND MUSTER. Jacaranda. 39/6.) ' ’J'HE South Sea Shilling, by Eric Swenson, with illustrations by Charles Michael Daugherty, is an account of the achievements of Captain Cook, told as fiction and apparently intended for children. It is a handsome production.

The title of the book is derived from a story related in the first chapter that Cook first went to sea after having an argument over “one of the shiny new South Sea shillings” with the owner of a Yorkshire haber dashery store where he worked at the age of 18.

(The South Sea Shilling. Angus

and Robertson. 25/-.)