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called {yila^ supernaturally sanctioned), infringements of iiau (the law), and mere observances of etiquette. (Compare the Latin/a5 and jus.) In connection with this matter he points out that Uantu religion and Bantu morality are mutually independent.

M. Junod has laid all students of anthropology, and especially all students of Bantu civilization, under a great debt of gratitude by this painstaking study of Thonga life. The photographs, sketches, and diagrams are of much assistance in understanding the text, though some of the photographs fail to bring out the details, either because they are too small or from other causes.

E. Sidney Hartland.

Thk Cochin TRUiES and Caste.s. Vol. ii. By L. K. Anantha Krishna Iyer. Madras: Higginbotham & Co., 1912. 8vo, pp. xxiii + 504. 111.

The second volume of this important contribution to the ethnology of India, of which the first instalment has been reviewed in these pages, ^ is of much greater value than the portion describing the forest tribes and the " untouchable " menials, of whom the writer, a Tamil Brahman, possesses much less intimate knowledge than of the more civilized races of the seaboard, — Brahmans, Nayars, Jews, Christians, and Mappillas. The articles are carefully com- piled, the facts grouped on a well-considered system, and an abundant supply of good photographs is provided. In some cases si)ace might have been saved by compression, and the system of transliteration, where we find the names of deities and other technical terms of Hinduism sometimes recorded in the recognized Sanskrit forms, sometimes in the Malayali equivalents, gives an impression of slovenliness which the book, as a whole, does not deserve. Thus, the well-known Gayatri sun-hymn appears as " Gayitri " ; " Ganapathi," " Bhagavathi," instead of Ganapati and BhagavatI \ Saraswati, sometimes " Saraswathi " ; offend the eye of the scholar.

^ Folk- Lore, vol. xxiii., pp. 263-7.