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The Far Eastern Tropics: Studies in the Ad- 

 ministration of Tropical Dependencies, by 

 Alleyne Ireland. With a Coloured Map. 

 Large Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. net. 



The author of this book spent nearly three years in 

 various Far Eastern countries, making himself thoroughly 

 conversant with the colonial methods of Great Britain, 

 France, Holland, and the United States. He deals with 

 Burma, Java, the Malay Peninsula, Hong Kong, French 

 Indo-China, Borneo, and the Philippines. Armed with 

 credentials from the Foreign and Colonial Office, Mr. 

 Ireland enjoyed exceptional opportunities of carrying on 

 his investigations, and in his preface he expresses his 

 gratitude to the many British and Foreign officials whose 

 assistance at once lightened his labours, and increased their 

 value during his stay in Eastern Asia. 



Among the questions which the author discusses are 

 Colonial Civil Service, Chinese Labour, the Currency 

 Question, The Government of Tropical Dependencies, 

 Educational Work in the Tropics, Colonial Finance and 

 Colonial Legislation. Two valuable appendices complete 

 the volume. The first, a Statistical Appendix showing the 

 area, population, finances, trade and shipping of the coun- 

 tries treated of. The second, a selected bibliography of 

 over one hundred works useful for a more detailed study 

 of the question. 



The Author, in his Preface, says : — " I am not without hope that, 

 in the great scarcity of books in the English language on the sub- 

 ject of comparative colonization, students of political science may 

 discover in them something of interest. . . . My object has been 

 rather to excite an interest in the problems of tropical colonization 

 than to attempt a final disposition of those problems according to 

 my lights. 



" Judging from my own experience during fifteen years of in- 

 vestigation in the field of colonial history and administration, the 

 statistical and bibliographical appendices at the end of this volume 

 should serve to smooth the path of any one who wishes to pursue 

 further the lines of thought suggested in these studies." 



