Reviews

Sir Joseph Banks, K.B., P.R.S., The Autocrat of the Philosophers. By Hector Charles Cameron, M.D., F.R.C.P. The Batchworth Press, London, 1952. Pp. xx + 341.Settlers and Convicts. By an Emigrant Mechanic. Foreword by C. M. H. Clark. M.U.P., 1953. Pp. xxxii + 245; 4 illus., 1 map, index. 18/6.The South Seas in Transition. A study of post-war rehabilitation and reconstruction in three British Pacific dependencies. By W. E. H. Stanner. Australasian Publishing Company, Sydney, 1953. Pp. xiv + 448. 50/-.Governor George Arthur: A Colonial Benevolent Despot. By M. C. I. Levy. Georgian House, Melbourne, 1953. Pp. xiv + 412. 50/-.Foundations of the Australian Monetary System 1788-1851. By S. J. Butlin. Melbourne University Press, 1953. Pp. xvi + 727; 30 illus. and map. 57/6.Reflections of an Australian Liberal. By F. W. Eggleston. F. W. Cheshire, Melbourne, for the Australian National University, 1953. Pp. 301. 27/6.James Stephen and the British Colonial System, 1813-1847. By Paul Knaplund. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1953. Pp. vii + 315. $5.50.The Pacific. By Oliver A. Gillespie. War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, N.Z., 1952. Pp. xiv + 395. 15/-.The Genesis of the Royal Australian Navy. By G. L. Macandie. Government Printer, Sydney, 1949. Pp. 334; plates.Everybody's Story of New Zealand. By A. H. Reed. A. H. & A. W. Reed, Wellington, 1950. 7/6.Australia: Her Story. Notes on a Nation. By Kylie Tennant. Macmillan, London, 1953. Pp. viii + 296.Marion Dufresne at the Bay of Islands. By Leslie G. Kelly. A. H. and A. W. Reed, Wellington, 1951. Pp. 114, 26 pls. 15/-.