Book Notes FOR the relatively very modest sum of one
guinea the reader will shortly be able to obtain a book of 1,143 pages, which includes 123 maps, charts and tables, a selected bibliography and an index of 78 columns. This prodigious work, which contains half a million, words, is The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Post-War World, and, like the other books in " The Intelligent Man's Series," it will be • published by Gollancz. The author is G. D. H. Cole, Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford. His book is designed to give the reader essential information that will enable him to form an intelligent judgement on current events. The scope is, therefore, immense. The work is divided up into six parts, the headings of which largely speak for their contents. They are: (t) Introductory ; (2) Capitalism, Socialism and the Alternatives ; (3) The Chance of a Job(4) Post-War Britain ; (5) International Development ; (6) World Affairs. " The greatest hope for the world's future," say the publishers, " is to be found in that combination of liberty and community which . . we are establishing in this island. But the success or failure of an experiment as great as anything in the history of the world depends ultimately on informed public opinion." This book is planned to help in its creation.
* * * * The English publication of To The Bitter End, by Hans Bernd Gisevius has been awaited with some impatience. It will be remem- bered that Gisevius, himself a member of the Gestapo, is one of the few survivors of the group of Germans who plotted to remove Hitler—by assassination if necessary. He had indeed been plotting against his Fiihrer from the very beginning of the latter's rise to power. He belonged to that small circle which included Admiral Wilhelm Canaris and General Hans Oster. He is able, therefore, to tell part of the inside story of Hitler's Germany. And, writing of the Resistance Movement, he shows why its activities, if unceasing, were apparently fruitless. It is a story sometimes difficult to believe, but the author can scarcely be doubted. In 1946 he gave evidence at the Nuremberg Trials, and for three days was in the witness box challenging Goring and his associates. Cape are the publishers.
* * * * An English edition of Marshal Badoglio's War Memoirs will be published this year by the Oxford University Press.
* * Miss Lily B. Campbell's Shakespeare's Histories : Mirrors of Elizabethan Policy, which was recently published in America, will be available shortly in this country through the Cambridge University Press. Mass Campbell is well known for her studies in Elizabethan history and politics, and in particular for her edition of The Mirror for Magistrates. In this book she seeks to demonstrate that " just as there is in the Shakespearean tragedies a dominant ethical pattern of passion opposed to reason, so there is in the history plays a dominant political pattern characteristic of the political philosophy of his age." * * July 18th sees the publicaticin in book form of the text of two Cambridge lectures. The first is the Leslie Stephen Lecture, which was given by Harold Nicolson, who spoke on Tennyson's Two Brothers. The other is the Rede Lecture, which was given by Sir Hubert Henderson, who spoke on The Uses and Abuses of Economic Planning. Cambridge University Press are the publishers.
* * * * Rider's are the publishers of a new work on India, The Philo- sophical Foundations of India, which is an introduction to and an outline of the six Darsanas, which together form the foundation of the classic philosophical systems of India. The author is Dr. Theos Bernard, an American lawyer who studied the history of religions and philosophy at Columbia University and then travelled to India and Tibet to gather first-hand material for his thesis for
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