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for the appearance of this new edition of the late George Antonius' in- valuable work to bear any intentional relation with the appearance of the Report of the Anglo-American Committee on Palestine. Actually it could not have been issued at a more opportune moment, for it is not too much to say that study of this work is essential to any accurate understanding of the Palestine problem, or of the larger issues arising in the Arab world from Aden to Alexandretta or from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. The book, no doubt, repre- sents avowedly the Arab point of view, but that, having regard to the paucity of literature on the Arab case, is an advantage rather than otherwise, and argument is so fully supported by documentation that the volume ranks definitely as history as distinct from propaganda. The Growth of Constitutional Power in the United States. By Carl