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THIS authoritative and comprehensive handbook will come as a boon to all who are interested in or in any way connected with the Malay Peninsula. The editor, a well-known authority and the author of several works on the Malayan language, is himself responsible for the chapters on the population, the ethnology, and languages of the Peninsula; Malayan literature; arts and crafts; religion and beliefs; and history and archaeology, as well as the account of the Eurasian, Chinese, and other races of the country.
Malaya: the Straits Settlements and the Federated and Unfederated Malay States.
Edited by Dr. R. O. Winstedt. Pp. xi + 283. (London, Bombay and Sydney: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1923.) 12s. net.
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Malaya: the Straits Settlements and the Federated and Unfederated Malay States. Nature 112, 469 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112469a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/112469a0