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THE LHOTA. NAGAS. By J. P. Mills. (Macmillan. 25s. net.)—Mr.

Mills has added a valuable item to the great debt which anthropology already owes to the Indian Civil Service. His monograph on the Lhota Nagas is such a loving yet critical appreciation of their qualities and customs, their domestic life, religion, laws and folk-lore, as John Chinn might have written about his Bhils. Many of the customs here described are fast vanishing, and it was time that they should be put on record. Mr. Mills has given us not only a sound piece of ethno- graphical work, but a very entertaining human document.