AT HOME AND ABROAD.
An account of the mountain tribes in the Burmese Hinter- land, in particular the Kachins, a hill-people who occupy the north-east frontier of Burma. Up to 1895 only punitive expeditions had visited these remote little people of the hill jungles, but since then much progress has been made, for the Kachins, though backward as a people, are naturally intelli- gent. In 1917 a company of them was recruited for the Mesopotamian front, a company commanded by the author, who has a long and intimate knowledge of the Kachins and other Burmese hill tribes. Though he tends to allow his professional interests to take up too much space his account is very thorough, and if not very picturesque, at least of unusual interest to the student of Eastern life and eminently readable for everybody.
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