19 JUNE 1920, Page 23

A Manual of the Bengali Language. By J. D. Anderson.

(Cambridge University Press. 7s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Anderson, who is the Bengali Lecturer at Cambridge, has written a scholarly and practical little manual—the first of a series of " Cambridge Guides to Modern Languages." The Bengali Wards in the short grammar, apd the prose and verse extracts and glossary, are transliterated into Roman characters for the benefit of beginners, but the Bengali characters are giten in an- appendix. As Bengali is spoken by 45,000,000 people and has a considerable literature, it should find more English students, apart from the officials who are bound in any case to learn it—though Clive never did.