Reviews.

David Marr, Patrick White, A Life, Random House, 1991, 727 pp; $49.95 Mavis Thorpe Clark, No Mean Destiny, The Story of the War Widows’ Guild of Australia, 1945–85, Hyland House, Melbourne, 1986, pp. xii + 288, $30 Joan Clarke, Just Us, A History of the Association of Civilian Widows of Australia, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1988, pp. 279, $24.95, paper, $14.95 Jean Scott, Girb With Grit, Memories of the Australian Women's Land Army, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1986, pp. xii + 179, $24.95 Catherine Kenny, Captives, Australian Army Nurses in Japanese Prison Camps, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1989, pp. xiv + 173, $14.95 Madeleine Sophie McGrath, These Women? Women Religious in the History of Australia, The Sisters of Mercy Parramatta 1888–1988, New South Wales University Press, Sydney, 1989, pp. xiii + 301, $34.95. Barry York, Student Revolt! La Trobe University 1967 to 1973, Nicholas Press, Canberra, 1989, pp. 184, $17. Gwynneth Singleton, The Accord and the Australian Labour Movement, Melbourne University Press, 1990, pp. viii + 222, $24.95. Alan W. Black (ed.) Religion in Australia, Sociological Perspectives, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1991, pp. xi + 222, $19.95. Hal Kendig and John McCallum (eds), Grey Policy, Australian Policies For An Ageing Society, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1990, pp xiii + 226, $19.95. Helen Proudfoot, Anne Bickford, Brian Egloff, Robyn Stocks, Australia's First Government House, Allen & Unwin and Department of Planning, Sydney, 1991, pp. xv + 196, $29.95. Ian Watson, Fighting Over The Forests, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1990, pp. xxi + 178, $17.95. Marion Diamond, The Sea Horse and the Wanderer, Ben Boyd in Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1988, pp. xiv + 254, $34.95. Neil Gunson (ed.) The Dalton Journal, Two Whaling Voyages to the South Seas, 1823–1829, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1991, pp. xii + 140, $34.95. Margorie R. Theobald and R.J.W. Selleck (eds) Family, School and State in Australian History, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1990, pp. x + 202, $19.95 paper. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]