Reviews

The Australian Welfare State. By M. A. Jones. George Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1980. pp. viii + 244. $22.50 cloth, $ 10.95 paper.The Condition of the People. Social Welfare in Australia 1900-1975. By Ronald Mendelsohn. George Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1979. pp. 361. $24.00 cloth (with Statistical Appendix), $10.95 paper.No Charity There. A Short History of Social Welfare in Australia. By Brian Dickey. Thomas Nelson Australia, Melbourne 1980. pp. xix + 252. $9.95.The Australian People and the Great War. By Michael McKernan. Nelson, Melbourne 1980. pp. vi + 242. $19.95.Our War. By Brian Lewis. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1980. pp. iii + 336 $18.60.Women, Class and History: Feminist Perspectives on Australia 1788-1978. Edited by Elizabeth Windschuttle. Fontana/Collins, Sydney 1980. pp. ix + 604. $9.95.My Dear P.M.: R. G. Casey's Letters to S. M. Bruce, 1924-1929. Edited by W.J. Hudson and Jane North. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra 1980. pp. xxiv + 578. $30.00.Diplomatic Witness: Australian Foreign Affairs 1941-1947. By Paul Hasluck. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1980. pp. 306. $25.00.Australians and Egypt 1914-1919. By Suzanne Brugger. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1980. pp. 178. $17.60.Australia and the League of Nations. By W. J. Hudson. Sydney University Press in association with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Sydney 1980. pp. ix + 224. $22.50.A Dream of Islands; voyages of self-discovery in the South Seas, By Gavan Daws. Jacaranda Press, Brisbane 1980. pp. xiv + 289. $12.95.Viceroy of the Pacific. The Majesty of Colour. A Life of Sir John Bates Thurston. By Deryck Scarr. Pacific Research Monograph, no. 4, Australian National University, Canberra 1980, pp. xvii + 334.Sir George Arthur, Bart 1784-1854. By A. G. L. Shaw. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1980. pp. xv + 307. $24.50.A Slave to Duty: Portrait Sketch of Sir George Arthur, Bart P.C., K.C.H. By. S. W. Jackman. Hawthorn Press, Melbourne 1979. pp. 152. $16.50.A Settlement Amply Supplied: Food Technology in Nineteenth Century Australia. By K. T. H. Farrer. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1980. pp. xiv + 332. $26.00.In the land of Kangaroos and Goldmines, a Frenchman's view of Australia in 1888. By Oscar Commetant, translated by Judith Armstrong. Rigby, Adelaide 1980. pp. 275. $9.95. First published Paris 1890.Convicts, Clergymen and Churches: Attitudes of convicts and ex-convicts towards the churches and clergy in New South Wales from 1788 to 1851. By Allan M. Grocott. Sydney University Press, Sydney 1980. pp. xiii + 327. $20.00.Yesterday's News. A History of the Newspaper Press in New South Wales from 1920 to 1945. By R. B. Walker. Sydney University Press, Sydney 1980. pp. xi + 243. $18.00.Darwin 1942: Australia's Darkest Hour. By Timothy Hall. Methuen, Sydney 1980. pp. 224. $10.95.Dictionary of Australian History. By John Larkins. Rigby, Adelaide 1980. pp. 226. $9.95.Little Moscows: Communism and Working-Class Militancy in Inter-war Britain. By Stuart Macintyre. Croom Helm, London 1980. pp. 213. £11.95.The Death of Woman Wang: Rural Life in China in the Seventeenth Century. By Jonathan D. Spence. Penguin, Harmondsworth 1980. pp. xix + 169. $4.95. First published 1978.