The new Bulletin (Lusa°, 6s.) of the School of Oriental
Studies at the London institution reveals once more-the vastness of the field open to the school and the excellence of the work that is being done. -Miss Alice Werner contributes elaborate notes on a Swahili text, and Mr. Frederick Johnson describes the little known Kirnakonde language spoken in the south of Tanganyika. Professor Vogel, of Leyden, in advocating the establishment of a British School of Indian Studies in India, describes the illimitable possibilities of research for archaeologists, ethnologists and philologists in that country. He comments on the fact that nearly all the existing grammars and dictionaries of modern Indian languages are the work of Europeans ; the native scholars prefer to study Sanskrit. We may mention, too, Mr. G. R. Driver's valuable " Studies in Kurdish History," a perusal of which may be commended to those who talk lightly of " self-determination " and Western institutions for the Kurds. The only Kurd who ever formed a strong State was Saladin, and he depended on Arab troops rather than on his unruly kinsmen.
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