Book Reviews

[...]though, the interpretation of the scnes on two Dongson drums in terms of the present-day Dayak tiwah, as given in this chapter, seems acceptable enough; in many respects it agrees with the conclusions reached earlier by Goloubew (Wales p. 56). [...]Trisno Sumardjo, who already before translated Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice (Hamlet, Pangeran Denmark, and Saudagar Venezia, Pembangunan, DJakarta 1950), rendered this play too into Bahasa Indonesia, not into Malay; and although a daftar kata is added for Malay readers to explain Indonesian words in the text, its Indonesian tinge will prove an extra handicap to them. [...]Ali bin H. Ahmad's collection of poems is to be welcomed as a useful effort to save the early beginnings of modern Malay poetry in Malaya from oblivion. 37 poems by 20 authors of the period 1934-41 are republished in this attractive booklet. [...]life in the mountains was far from secure in the neighbourhood of the Kukukuku, who were dreaded far and wide but this dread does not seem to have stimulated creativity.