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 2 So Short Bibliog7'aphical Notices.

volumes should benefit by the annotations on names. The present volume is admirable, and comprises, besides notes on phonology etc., and an alphabetical list of names with dated references for their various forms, tables of the first and second elements of the names and a bibliography of record publications, charters, etc. On p. 24 there is an interesting list of changes due to popular etymologies.

Man and Beast tfi Eastern Ethiopia. By J. Bland-Sutton.

Macmillan, 191 1. 8vo, pp. xii + 419. 204 eng. 12s. «. This book is mainly a well-illustrated account of sport and zoology in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan, the author having made trips from Mombaza to the Victoria Nyanza, along the Great Rift Valley, and by boat up the White Nile and Bahr el Gebel to Rejaf. But it also contains much of interest to the anthropologist. Four chapters deal with the Masai, Wa-Kikuyu, Ndorobo, and Kavirondo, and three with Drums, Ornaments for Ears and Lips, and Ethiopian Fashions of Hair-dressing, with illustrations of fetish huts, charms, etc., and brief bibliographies.

Brands used by the Chief Camel-Owning Tribes of Kordofan.

By H. A. MacMicha?:).. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1913.

8vo, pp. viii-t-40. xvii pi. 6s. «. The fascinating story of the History of Writing has not yet been adequately told. Before it can .even be attempted, it will be found necessary to record and study far more fully and extensively the brands and marks of ownership which preceded, perhaps by an immense interval, the first attempts at picture writing. For this preliminary work such a collection as the 131 figures supplied by Mr. MacMichael is invaluable. The shapes of the brands, and their exact positions, are very clearly shown and explained, and lists are added of the names of brands, the chief camel-owning tribes and their brands, and the comriion words used to denote a camel at various ages.

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