The New Review August 1943

Our hold on the island will reinforce our command of the Mediterranean greatly hamper the manoeuvres of the Italian fleet and facilitate the invasion of the Italian Peninsula and of the Balkans. [...] IN THE PACIFIC Operations in the Pacific have not the glamour of large scale battles ; ceaseless watch in the air and the sea silent manoeuvres on the waters laborious trekking in the jungle and then occasionally a clash a dog-fight in the air a short-lived naval skirmish an obscure encounter in the jungle. [...] And how is it answering the questions put to it ? It tries to teach the man with the small holding the absolute need of green food for his cow the possibility of storing excess of succulent grass in the post-monsoon period inthe form of silage for times of scarcity the need of manure if the soil is to produce. [...] This method has been thought out by F. Graebner and developed by W. Schmidt the founder of the Viennese School of Anthropology.' The following pages intend to give a concised survey of the array of collected facts made by the Anthropolgists of the culture-historical School and to outline the leading features of the racial and cultural history of primitive man. [...] While the differences in material culture may have been considerable (in the manufacture of tools weapons 108 THE NEW REVIEW clothing in the way of living etc.) though not so radical as in the formation of the non-material culture (in their mental character world-ideology religious beliefs and practices) the difference of the various human races is most striking in the differentiation of hu