The Suk : their Language and Folk-Lore. By Mervyn W.
H. Beach. (The Clarendon Press. 12s. 6d. net.)—Here we have another example of the useful work that is being done in.far-away regions of the Empire. Mr. Beach was District Commissioner of Baringo, in East Africa, and here he made acquaintance with the Suk, one of the tribes which inhabit the highlands of the British East Africa Protectorate (the Masai are their best known neighbours). This volume deals first with their manners, customs, beliefs, and folk-tales, and secondly with their language. The tribe is imperfectly organized and has made but little advance to civilization. It is made up largely of refugees from other tribes, being, one might say, an asylum gen tium, though with no little difference from the institution on the Seven Hills.
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