In this neatly stencilled book Mrs. Dickinson gives a translation of Kerikil Tadjam, a collection of Chairil Anwar's earliest poems. There can be no question about the effort being worth-while. This remarkable phenomenon of the first full fledged poetry in the Indonesian language deserves to be known outside the small group of people in the western world who are acquainted with Bahasa Indonesia. Mrs. Dickinson has, rightly in my opinion, not attempted to make this poetry more "beautiful" than it really is. She has tried to keep close to the original and to give the readers first and foremost an impression of what and how the poet wrote in Bahasa Indonesia. To enliven this impression, the Indonesian texts are printed side by side with the translations. A. Teeuw