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drawn attention to the existence of these complicated problems 

 with sufficient distinctness, so as to warn those who do not 

 know as much about the matter as he does himself. He is 

 inclined, in support of his unifying scheme, to glide quietly 

 over the difficulties that still remain unexplained. 



I cannot here go into the other points raised in this in- 

 teresting and valuable paper, but must refer anyone who wants 

 more information to the original itself or to the French trans- 

 lation which has recently appeared in the Bulletin de l'Ecole 

 Franchise d'Extreme Orient, Tome VII., Nos. 3 & 4, under the 

 title " Les peuples Mon-Khmer, trait d'union entre les peuples 

 de l'Asie centrale et de l'Austronesie." Whether its conclu- 

 sions be accepted in their entirety or not, there can be no 

 doubt that it is an epochmaking and most important contri- 

 bution to philological science. 



R. A. Soc, No. 53, 1909. 



