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... East occurred both on the lower Danube and on the Rhine, whereas the uprisings which followed disturbances in the T'ien Shan affected only the upper Danube. Further, there were no uprisings in Europe which were not preceded by the respective disturbances in the Near or Far East, and there were no wars...

..., the western world lived in fear of the Mongol hordes which swept westward as far as the Danube laying waste to all which lay before them. Over the years, the power and importance of Mongolia declined and it fell, at different times, under Russian and Chinese influence respectively. More recently it was under...

... Anticipations; Cultural Diffusion from An-Yang to the Danube; The Art of the Silk Route; Iran between East and West; Cultural and Artistic Interchanges in Modern Times; A Bibliography of Discovery; Foreigner Barbarian Monster; Iconography of the Universal Hero. Wittkower discusses the complex problem of culture...

... appear with disappointing regularity; BOOK REVIEWS 1059 and errors of fact, many admittedly minor, abound. Dinuba, California, is invariably given as "Danube;" the 102 arrivals noted on page 2 add up to only 101 when considered in the categories given; the Korean Emperor is misidentified as "king" (pp...

... the Urals, a book narrower in scope but certainly deeper in its insight into life and labor in Siberia. Emil Lengyel, before he dashed off his Siberia, had produced The Danube, Turkey, and Dakar for the same publishers. Emil Lengyel aspires to write in popular geography what Emil Ludwig used to do in facile...

..., California, is invariably given as "Danube;" the 102 arrivals noted on page 2 add up to only 101 when considered in the categories given; the Korean Emperor is misidentified as "king" (pp. 10 and 17); the August 22, 1910 annexation of Korea by Japan is given as taking place in July; the December 28, 1905...

... chüeh pao kao , (Peking, 1959 ), 2 vols . Some of the swords found at this Rock Fortress Mountain site, dated after about 100 B.C., are near replicas of swords from earlier Iron Age sites of the Danube area. Such far western influences in the Dongson period had been anticipated by Heine-Geldern...

... produced The Danube, Turkey, and Dakar for the same publishers. Emil Lengyel aspires to write in popular geography what Emil Ludwig used to do in facile biography a best-seller if not the best reference on each subject. The result is dismal. BOOK REVIEWS 385 Siberia is in spots interesting but seldom...

.... Peking, Foreign Languages Press, 1954. 5 p., 14 plates. CLARK, MARK WAYNE. From the Danube to the Yalu. N. Y., Harper [1954] x, 309 p. illus., ports., fold. map. DAI, SHEN-YU. Whither Korea? Current history 27 (Nov. 1954), 298-306. DEAN, ARTHUR H. The role of the United States in the Far East. AAAPSS 294...

..., the Mongol, whose leader, Genghis Khan and his offspring, especially Kublai Khan, built a trade-oriented far-flung empire, covering present-day Iran, Russia, Poland, Hungary, and reaching as far as the Danube and the Adriatic Sea. The world's most famous caravan route, the Silk Road, was then opened...

..., 1965. 240 p. KOESTLER, ARTHUR. The lotus and the robot. APPLETON, GEORGE. On the eightfold path; Chris- Danube ed. with a new preface by the author. tian presence amid Buddhism. London, London, Hutchinson, 1966. 296 p. S. C. M. Press [1966] 156 p. Orig. pub. 1961. LEWIS, HYWEL DAVID. World religions...