11 APRIL 1908, Page 23

Twentieth Century Impressions of British Malaya — Editor - in- Chief, Arnold Wright; Assistant-Editor,

IL A. Cartwright (Singapore) (Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company)— is a massive volume of very handsome appearance. It is a quarto of between nine hundred and a thousand pages, and contains information on every detail of government, employment, popula- tion, and other matter in Malaya. The articles are written by experts, and illustrated by photographs, mostly of excellent quality.—We may notice at the same time Kelantan : a State ej the Malay Peninsula, by W. A. Graham (J. MacLehose and Sons, Glasgow, 5s. net). Kelantan is on the eastern side of the peninsula, with Perak (W.) and Pahang (S.) In size it is about as big as Yorkshire, and it has a population of between three and four hundred thousand. Mr. Graham has mush that is instructive to tell us about the Kelantan people and their ways. It has lately been placed under British protection.