25 APRIL 1969, page 16

Treading Water

CHARLES STUART One of the features of modern historical scholarship is the tendency to knock down current views with the unacknowledged help of the forgotten work of the day......

Origins Of Ussuri

MICHAEL KASER In more than a century, one book=a politi- cally bowdlerised university thesis, locally published in the Soviet Far East—and a half- dozen articles are all that......