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Crime and Custom in Savage Society (Kegan Paul. 5s.) looks

an interesting' book; but even the vividest of tragedies among passionate savages, such as the man who married-his cousin, was accused of incest by-a rival-, •and thereupon com- mitted suicide by jumping off the top of a palm tree after addressing the crowd below, is somehow made to seem rather a colourless affair by Mr. Malinowski's severely scientific

treatment of it. ' *