25 FEBRUARY 1928, Page 27

IN COURT AND KAMPONG. By Sir Hugh Clifford._ (Richards Press.

7s. 6d.)—This book originally appeared in 1897, after the author, as one British resident in Malaya, had had mine years of experience in that then little-known corner of the earth. The present edition, which contains a charming. autobiographical preface, reviewing the changes of many, years, synchronizes with the author's appointment as Governor, of the Colony of the Straits Settlements. Sir Hugh's nineteen, stories and sketches—terse, simple, and strong—give a, really vital impression of native life in the Malay Peninsula as it was forty years ago " and as, God be thanked, it can never, be again."