28 FEBRUARY 1920, Page 21

The new Bulletin (6s.) of the London School of Oriental

Studies confirms the belief that the School is destined to do a great work for Oriental scholarship. Sir George Grierson contributes a long and interesting article on " The Popular Literature of Northern India," as well as a continuation of his erudite study of " Indo-Aryan Vernaculars." Professor Giles continues his examination of that early Christian relic, the Nestorian monument at Sian-fu. Mr. Edmondston Scott's essay on "The Basque Declension" shows that the mysterious language of the Western Pyrenees is akin to Santa, Mundari, and other agglutinative languages of the Munda or Kolarian family of Bengal. How or why migrants came from Lower Bengal to Western Europe, to survive only among the Basques. is an insoluble problem.