THE BALEARICS AND THEIR PEOPLES. By Frederick Chamberlin. (John Lane.
18s.)—Minorea used to be an English possession ; for legal purposes it was " in the ward of Cheap," as Sir Frederick Pollock records in a famous set of verses. But the delightful island, with its larger neighbour Majorca and the islets near by, is but little visited by English people, save when a tourist steamer calls for a few hours. Mr. Chamberlin's comprehensive and interesting, though somewhat dogmatic, book on the Balearic group will assuredly send many readers there next winter. He describes the social usages of the natives with no little humour. He devotes a quarter of his space to the curious prehistoric megaliths of Minorca—" t.alayots " or rude pyramids, and • taulas " or tables of stone--and gives a detailed list with many photographs. Who were these skilled and hard-working stonemasons who left such massive monuments in Minorca, as in many other countries west and east of Egypt, and whose tradition has perished ?
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