Abstract

In Brief

This article focuses on three books, "Mr. Rutledge of South Carolina," by Richard Barry, "Fiji: Little India of the Pacific," by John Wesley Coulter and "Constantine the Great," by Lloyd B. Holsapple. The author of the Constitution of the United States was John Rutledge, the able South Carolina lawyer, statesman, and strategist who did so much to win the Revolution in the South. But that is the conclusion of this absorbingly well-written, urbane, but extremely scholarly biography by Barry. "Fiji" is a book of somewhat specialized interest, and for a person who wants to know about Fiji this is a handy survey, from first-hand acquaintance, of the people, geography, and political and economic conditions of a very centrally located spot on the route to the Southwest Pacific.