234 RECENT BOOKS ON MALAY, 
has drawn attention to some inaccuracies and criticiz... wie author’s 
failure to give references in our parent Journal (J. R. A. 8. — 
October 1921). . | 
Johol, Inas, Ulu Muar, Jempul, Gunong Pasir and Terachi: 
their History and Constitution by J. E. Nathan and R. 0. 
Winstedt (1920). This is the last but one of the second series 
of “Papers on Malay Subjects,’ which owed their inspiration to 
Mr. Wilkinson originally. This volume gives the latest theory as 
to which States composed the ancient Negri Sembilan. It also 
gives much information invaluable to government officers stationed 
in Negri Sembilan to-day. This book also Mr. Blagden has re- 
viewed. 
Perak Malay by C. C. Brown (Calcutta 1921, published for the 
Committee: for Malay Studies, Kuala Lumpur). This is the latest 
volume in the Second Series of “ Papers on Malay Subjects.” It 
is without question the most valuable and scholarly study of any 
Peninsular dialect that has yet appeared. It is to be hoped that 
there may be found students to write similar brochures, say, on the 
dialects of Kedah, Kelantan, Trengganu and Negri Sembilan. One 
of the dialogues was written by H. H. the Sultan of Perak, and the 
Raja di-Hilir (Raja Chulan) assisted the author to read the proofs. 
The 29 dialogues in the Perak River vernacular are prefaced by a 
scholarly introduction. *”T’o Lambok (p. 68) is referred to, if my 
memory serves me, in “ Notes and Queries” of this Society: he 
was a not very remote Kinta chief and will be found in Dr. Win- 
stedt’s “ Perak Pedigrees.” 
