The Journal of the Siam Society Vol. XXIX, Part 1-2, 1936 - Khamkoo

PT. II] BEATRIX JV1ETFORD 151
tempered and living simply, tt-lso :1pplieR to the Sitt-nwse pensftnt, who
is even more attmctivc becauRe of his st.roug and refreRhing sense of
humour.
As Raid in the beginning of tlwse notes Sir Gem·ge Hcott'H ho,Jk,
ttll its outstanding mcritH notwithstanding, does not fultill tlw
expecta.tions or either the anthropologist OI' the ctlmologiHt. A new
work on these lines trea,ting a.ll the races of Burma. is, therefore, Yery
much needed; and we believe that t!Je right man to ·write this book
would he Major ,J. H. Oreou, who now for yettrH has beon stndying
theRe problems on the spot.
October 1935.
ERIK REillENFAllR:\1.
BEATRIX METFOTW, Whn·e Chino. 1rwels B1f.,?'11Ui. Blackie & Son,
Ltd., London and Glasgow. 281 page8 with 32 ill m.;tnttions and
one map.
'J'his is a very channing hook whiel1 ,c;eems to llfwe been written
oy just aR elli1l'tning a, Jady.
'!'he 11uthoreRs is the wife of a British Civil Official \Yho ,c;ervecl for
years in the north-ettstern partH of Burma, principa.lly in the Kachinpoopled
distl'ict caRt of Bbnmo, later in Blw,mo itself,