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Malay sketches

Chapter 2: BY THE SAME AUTHOR
By Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham
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A series of observational sketches and short narratives evokes daily life, landscape, and belief among Malay communities, blending character portraits, local anecdotes, and folkloric episodes. The pieces range from descriptions of nature and encounters with wildlife to accounts of social customs, ceremonies, pastimes, and unusual phenomena such as fits of fury and trance-like states. Interwoven are reflections on hospitality, superstition, and changing ways as outside influences encroach, alongside personal incidents and vivid storytelling that illustrate manners, speech, and moral expectations without adhering to a single plot or protagonist.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

UNADDRESSED LETTERS

Crown 8vo, 6s. Third Edition

“Deep gratitude is due to Sir Frank for giving these letters to the world ... the lazy descriptions of Eastern life, the musings on great scenes, the stories, and the utterances of social wisdom are all delightful, and add body to a book remarkable for a rare delicacy and charm.”—The Athenæum.

“His narrative style is admirable, and his episodes are always interesting. One could read for many hours of the clever mongoose and tigers and crocodiles.... Sir Frank Swettenham has a pretty humour.... The style in which these ‘Unaddressed Letters’ is written is excellent.”— The Pall Mall Gazette.

THE REAL MALAY
PEN PICTURES

Crown, 8vo, 6s.

“No pen except that of Mr. Conrad has drawn the Malay character so faithfully or so graphically.... It is a combination that is very alluring, and we confess to finding Sir Frank Swettenham’s book of Malay sketches most fascinating reading.”—The Pall Mall Gazette.

“Sir Frank Swettenham understands perhaps better than any other roving Englishman ‘The Real Malay.’”—The Morning Post.