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laritv. Besides these, there are the unprinted gypsy 

 songs, almost entirely in Romani, said to be of great age 

 (garatitne giljd), sung to -wilder music than the Russian 

 romances, and said to be brought straight from the tents, 

 from the Nomad Gj^sies (felditkone romender). These 

 latter continually send recruits to the town singers, 

 whose dialect is not markedly different from theirs. 

 All these songs are harmonised, there being always a 

 first and a second voice. Each verse consists of from 

 two to four lines, and between each verse the voices 

 sing, again in harmony, the refrain, to which there are 

 no words, and which consists of tra-ra-ri-ras, etc.. ad 

 libitum. The guitars accompany both the song and the 

 refrain, but do not strum alone between the verses, as 

 they do in Spain." 



Books Received 



(Mention in tliis column does not preclude a review.) 



ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCH.EOLOGY 



The Rural Community. By Llewellyn ^IacGarr, M.A. 



(The jSIacmillan Company, 8s.) 

 Historical Sites in Palestine. By Lt.-Com. V. L. Trumper, 

 R.N.R., M.R.A.S. (Marshall Bros., 35. 6d.) 



LITERATURE 

 Macbeth, King Lear and Contemporary History. By 

 Lilian Winstanley, M.A. (Cambridge University 

 Press, 15s.) 



MISCELLANEOUS 

 Cold Light on Spiritualistic Phenomena. By Harry Price, 



F.R.N.S. (Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner & Co., 



Ltd., 6d.) 

 The Conquest of the New Zealand Alps. By Samuel 



Turner, F.R.G.S. Illustrated. (T. Fisher-Unwin, 



Ltd., lis.) 



PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY 

 The Poetic Mind. By Prof. F. C. Prescott. (The Mac- 



miUan Company, gs.) 

 Fundamental Conceptions of Psycho-analysis. By A. .\. 



Brill, Ph.B., M.D. (George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 



I2S. 6d.) 

 Outwitting Our Nerves. A Primer of Psychotherapy. By 



Josephine A. J.a.ckson. M.D., and Helen M. 



Salisbury. (Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner & Co., 



Ltd., 7s. 6d.) 

 Juvenile Delinquency. Bj' Henry H. Goddard. (Kegan 



Paul, Trench, Triibner & Co., Ltd., 3s. 6d.) 

 The Philosophy of Humanism. By Viscount Haldane. 



(John Murray, 12s.) 



SCIENCE 

 The British Association for the Advancement of Science : 

 A Retrospect, 1831-1921. By O. J. R. Howarth, 

 O.B.E., M.A. (The British Association, Burlington 

 House, Piccadilly, W.i, 7s. 6d.) 



A n Introduction to Electrodynamics. By Prof. Leigh 



P.\ge, Ph.D. (Ginn & Company, los.) 

 Modern Microscopy. By M. I. Cross and Martin J. 



Cole. Fifth Edition, revised and rearranged by 



Herbert F. Angus. (Bailliere, Tindall ct Cox, los. 6d.) 

 The " Green Ray " or " Green Flash " [Rayon Vert) at 



Rising and Setting of the Sun. By Prof. Dr. M. E. 



Mulder. (T. Fisher Unwn, Ltd., 6s.) 

 The Psychic Life of Insects. By Prof. E. L. Bouvier. 



Translated by L. O. Howard, M.D., Ph.D. (T. 



Fisher Unwin, Ltd., 8s. 6d.) 

 The Tutorial Chemistry. Part II. Metals and Physical 



Chemistry. By G. H. Barley, D.Sc, Ph.D. 



(University Tutorial Press, 6s. 6d.) 

 The fourth edition of a book deservedly popular among 

 students preparing for pass examinations in the University 

 of London. The best cheap book on general and inorganic 

 chemistry in print. 



Metallurgy of Iron and Steel. Based mainly on the work 



of Sir Robert Hadfield, F.R.S. Edited by R. E. 



Neale, B.Sc. (Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 



2s. 6;^.) 



A compilation made by the editor of Pitman's Technical 



Primers. It is too short and too general for the student, 



but excellent for the general reader. 



Handbook of Commercial Geography. By Geo. G. 

 Chisholm, M.A., B.Sc. Ninth edition. (Longmans, 

 Green & Co., 25s.) 

 The eighth edition of this important work was published 

 in March 191 1. The new edition describes Europe and the 

 world as far as facts about them can be ascertained in the 

 present year, and is the result of a drastic revision of the 

 old. The book gains in value with each new edition. 

 To praise a work which has been in existence for thirty- 

 three years would be superfluous. 



Journal of Scientific Instruments. Preliminary Number. 

 May 1922. (The Institute of Physics, 2s. 6^.) 

 The first number of this periodical is well edited and 

 produced, appears to be strongly backed, and shows great 

 promise. Its future will depend, we are told, upon the 

 numbers willing to subscribe. No journal at the present 

 time deals adequately with the subject-matter of this one — 

 scientific instruments. It should therefore have a wide 

 appeal and be of great service. With the backing of the 

 recently founded Institute of Physics and with the 

 co-operation of the National Physical Laboratory it should 

 occupy a permanent position in the stream of indispensable 

 scientific literature. 



Notes on Quantitative Analysis. Supplement. By 

 H. J. H. Fenton, Sc.D., F.R.S. (Cambridge Uni- 

 versity Press, 3s. 6d.) 

 A supplement to Dr. Fenton's well-known Notes on 

 Quantitative Analysis, giving the chief reactions and 

 properties of the rarer elements, and of a considerable 

 number of organic and inorganic compounds which were 

 not described in that book. Chemical students will find 

 this book useful both in their practical and theoretical 

 work. 



