110 SOCIAL SCIENTIST der Merwe in their recent book 'Open Questions in Quantum Physics. He also fails to suggest the ways that are boldly being created to rectify these. The result is that his readers are left trying to cope with an infinity of universes, each of which has a non-objective past. Apart from the academic question, the readers are confronted by a sense of helplessness and inaction which will be far from redeemed by the facetious suggestion that, after all, historically the victory of the Allies against Fascism is only like the appearance of Madonna on the cover page of Cosmopolitan. K.K. THECKEDATH Wilson College, Bombay