Recent Books on Malay. 
leisalat Hoekoem Kanoen ja-itoe Oendang-Oendang Mclaka 
edited by Dr. Ph. S. van Ronkel (Brill, Leiden, 1919). This 
is an authoritative text of the Malay Laws of Malacca, of which 
an abstract is given in Newbold’s history of Malacca (Vol. II pp. 
231 et seq). It is particularly valuable because Malay “Codes” 
deserve more comparative study than they have hitherto received 
and especially comparison with such Indian “Codes” as are to 
be found, for example in the Ain-t Akhbar and Tartkh-1 Tahir. 
Maleisch Woordenboek (Maletsch-Nederlandsch and Neder- 
dandsch-Maleisch) by Dr. Ph. 8. van Ronkel (Gouda, 1918). This 
is an excellent little dictionary, which the author modestly describes 
as the first dictionary printed in the Dutch official spelling, though 
it has many other good points such as scholarly accuracy and 
arrangement to recommend it. It will be to Dutch scholars 
what Wilkinson’s and Winstedt’s abridged dictionaries are to 
us. 
Supplement-Catalogus der Maleische en Minangkabausche 
Handschriften in de Leidsche Unwersiteits-Bibliotheek by Dr. Ph. 
S. van Ronkel (Leiden 1921). This is a supplement (316 pp.) 
to Dr. Juynboll’s well-known Catalogus of the Leyden Library 
(1899) and is worthy to stand beside it and van Ronkel’s own 
Catalogue of Malay MSS. in the Batavian Society’s Library. 
Many of the new MSS. here catalogued came from Ophuijsen’s 
and Snouck Hurgronje’s collection. Two MSS. of the Ht. Bayan 
Budiman are here recorded and one of the Puspa Wiraja, of 
which Dr. Winstedt (Journal 83, p. 96) knew only one MS. ‘There 
are a number of valuable works on Islam and mysticism in the 
Snouck Hurgronje collection. The book will be of incalculable 
service to all serious students of Malay. 
Wir Menschen der indonesischen Erde by Renward Brand- 
stetter (Luzern). This comparison of the “souls” of two peoples, 
the Indonesian and the Indogermanic is a sequel to the author’s 
valuable studies of Indonesian philology, familiar to English readers 
from Mr. C. O. Blagden’s translations of several of the best known. 
Pantoen Meélajoe issued by the Balat Poestaka (Weltevreden, 
1920). This is a fine collection of Malay quatrains, the Dutch 
counterpart of the book published by Messrs Wilkinson and 
Winstedt, now out of print. The collection will be of value for 
comparative purposes, especially for eprpenisen with the Penin- 
sular collection just mentioned. 
iitab Loghat Mélayu by R. O. Winstedt D. tee and Ibrahim 
bin Dato’ Muda, Linggi (Singapore, 1921). A dictionary in 
Malay for Malays, the first that has appeared in the Peninsula 
Jour. Straits Branch 
