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Papers and proceedings of the workshop-cum-seminar on rural institutions and agricultural development

language" of training, thereby relieving the author of the necessity of discussing in conventional terms the program, organization, and other features of the Academy usually presented. The program, for example, can be discussed as "a process of transmission of normative vocabularies; it teaches students to speak a certain kind of language by inducting them into its grammer, syntax and vocabulary" (p. 317). While this is a suggestive analytical tool, the analogy too often veers into diffuse— and extensive—detours. Ultimately, it becomes an academic conceit, providing only a partial explication of the National Academy. Beyond the lack of conceptual focus, the other general problem is the lack of a firm hand on contributors' style and writing performance. Training is not inherently a stimulating enough topic to ensure general uninterrupted attention for 445 pages. When issues are not posed clearly and compellingly, readers may be forgiven a degree of inattentiveness. All too frequently the writing lapses from uneven to pedestrian and worse. There are some exceptions, of course, paragraphs that illuminate and provoke. But they are too few and too dispersed. The book is well-printed, an improvement over earlier publications in the Praeger Special Studies Series. A few additional comments on Asia appear in the Conclusion, concerning the Administrative College in Papua, and the short-lived Philippine Finance Academy. There is no index. At the publisher's selling price, the book will be of interest primarily to those concerned with the lesser-known case studies, to people with interests identical to the project design, and to the wide-spread circle of admirers of the editor.