Commissioned by the Commonwealth Secretariat, this book is a useful addition to the literature on the 32 states which have populations.of less than 1.5 million each, and which, on the latter criterion, can be categorised as "small" within the 54 member Commonwealth. The book, by way of introduction, lists these states (Table 1, Figure 1, pp. 4&6) with their population numbers and some other information.