Customs of the World. Edited by Walter Hutchinson. (Hutchinson and
Co. 27s. net)—This is a very excellent work which, whilst full of entertainment for the general reader (at whose interest it chiefly aims), will also serve as a bandy compendium for the ethnologist. The article on each non-European country or district has been allotted to a trust- worthy specialist, such as Dr. Charles Hose for Borneo, Sir Richard Temple for the Andaman, Mr. W. W. Skeet for Malaysia, Mr. L. A. Waddell for Tibet, and Mr. T. J. Alldridge for Sierra Leone. The least satisfactory part of the work is that relating to the European countries, which should either have been omitted altogether or treated on a more adequate scale. We are quite at a loss to understand the meaning of the statement that the parents of an English bride and bride- groom never attend the wedding in church (p. 1066). Copious illustrations, mostly from photographs, constitute a complete picture-gallery of exotic mankind.
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