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 520 Reviews.

The Chane and Chiriguano folk-tales and myths, which fill a large part of the work, will attract the special attention of the folklorist. The material culture of the tribes is also treated of at some length. Some good photographs add to the value of the book.

It is to be hoped that Indiayilif may soon be translated into English or some other language which enables students, not acquainted with Swedish, to profit by the valuable information here given on primitive Indian culture.

R. Karsten.

The KachXris. By the late Rev. Sidney Endle. Introduction by J. D. Anderson. Published under the orders of the Gov. of Eastern Bengal and Assam. Macmillan, 191 1. 8vo, pp. xix+128. Map and ill. This, the last issued volume of a valuable series, differs in character from some of its predecessors, and the contrast between it and Mr. Hodson's account of the Naga tribes of Manipur,^ which immediately preceded it, is specially noticeable. Mr. Endle was not a trained anthropologist, but during his service of forty- three years as missionary and chaplain in Assam his amiable personality, well described by his friend Mr. Anderson, made him a favourite with European planters as well as with the native races among whom his active life was spent. The present work, though in anthropological value falling short of the standard set in other monographs descriptive of the allied tribes, contains much material of interest and value.

The Kacharis, according to the census of 1901, numbered nearly a quarter of a million ; but, if we extend the general name to what Mr. Endle calls the northern and southern group, they aggregate upwards of a million souls. These two groups do not now intermarry, and the barrier of language is sufficient to divide them. But they seem at one time to have formed an united

^ See Vol. xxii, pp. 266 et seq.