4 MAY 1901, Page 26

Poems of the Malay Peninsula. By R. Greentree, B.A. (P.

Wellby. 3s. 6&)—Mr. Greentree gives anlintroductory essay on the character of the Malay race. His own residence in the country has helped him to make his picture unusually vivid. The poems are partly reflections of native feeling, partly repre- sent the thought of the European about what he sees. " Men- jelma," in whiob a revenant, whose grave has been filled up, in spite of his commands—for he would fain have seen "the upas- trees so tall "—appears in tiger shape, is a specimen of genuine Malay verse; "Fate—East and West," expresses modern thought.