Story of Bali, Indonesia

A Rangda like being in the blue mask of a Balinese elephant will be all we shall see of the Moslem story of Amad and Mohamad, among, the dense foliage of ladies and Aryas and body-servants of kings. We know that Mohamad won the elephant and the princess; it is implicit in the defeat of the others, and we are shown neither him nor his victory. Perhaps of all the moving drama of Wiradarantami and Princess Ratnadjwita we shall see only a young prince with his hands held as though bound together, being beaten and stabbed unresisting, by an infuriated king, and remaining invincible; while the lady may be lacking altogether. He may even not be given his customary personal attendants, since he is brought in captive by the body-servants of the king.

I am afraid that the summaries of the libretti given, only a small selection of the whole, will prove rather dreary reading to the reader who has never seen the dance. But the real stories, alive with incident and rhythm, belong to quite a different book, which It Is to be hoped that some one will one day write. If there is any point in such comparisons it is to heraldry that. One might liken the dramatic treatment in Gamboeh. The story is heraldically conceived and perhaps will be instinctively clear to the heraldically minded.

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