which is part of the Federated Malay States railway system, has been constructed from the town of Malacca to Tampin in the Negri Sembilan. There is a good rest-house at Malacca and a comfortable seaside bungalow at Tanjong Kling, seven miles from the town. Malacca is 118 m. by sea from Singapore and 50 m. by rail from Seremban, the capital of the Negri Sembilan. There is excellent snipe-shooting to be had in the vicinity of Malacca. See _The Commentaries of d'Alboquerque_ (Hakluyt Society); _The Voyages and Adventures of Fernand Mendez Pinto_ (London, 1653); _An Account of the East Indies_, by Captain Alexander Hamilton (Edinburgh. 1727); Valentyn's _History of Malacca_, translated by Dudley Hervey; _Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society_; "Our Tropical Possessions in Malayan India," by the same author, _ibid._; _Further India_, by Hugh Clifford (London, 1904); _British Malaya_, by Sir Frank Swettenham (London, 1906). (H. Cl.) MALACHI, the name assigned to the last book of the Old Testament in English (the last of the "prophets" in the Hebrew Bible), which according to the title (Mal. i. 1) contains the "word of Yahweh to Israel by the hand of Malachi." In form the word means "my messenger." It could be explained as a contraction of Malachiah, "messenger of Yahweh"; but the Septuagint is probably right in not regarding it as a proper name ("by the hand of His messenger"). Not only do we know nothing from internal or external evidence of the existence of a prophet of this name,[1] but the occurrence of the word in the title is naturally explained as derived from iii. 1: "Behold, I send my messenger" (cf. ii. 7). The prophecy must, therefore, be regarded as anonymous; the title was added by the compiler who wrote similar editorial titles to the anonymous prophecies beginning Zech. ix. 1, xii. 1.