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Professor Arnold J. Toynbee's Survey of International Affairs is now

an established institution which we take for granted. But it would be churlish not to praise the volume

now issued for 1928, under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (H. Milford, 21s.). So detailed a chronicle of the diplomacy of the year can be found nowhere else ; for the Middle East and China, in particular, it is most illuminating, and the chapter on the disarmament negotiations is of great interest. As a companion to this very elaborate work, Mr. J. W. Wheeler-Bennett has edited a volume of Documents on International Affairs, 1928 (H. Milford, 12s. 6d.), which includes statesmen's speeches as well as treaties and conventions. For serious students of world politics the two books are most useful.