On the Knees of the Gods. By A. F. P.
Harcourt. (R. Bentley and Son. 12s.)—This is an Anglo-Indian novel, the work of one who. knows what he is writing about. It is satisfactory to see that he takes a less pessimistic view of English manners and morals than is sometimes given us in the fiction of the day. A little satire,. not by any means ill-tempered, aimed at the Civil Service, its high estimate of itself, and the unfair preference which it secures over the military, may be excused in one who writes " Colonel"' after his name. In the regions of which he is master the deserving soldier meets with his due. In fact, the chief prize falls to one who is neither a civil nor a military servant. Hazel de Souza is all that a heroine should be, and Colonel Harcourt cannot allow her to remain what she has seemed to be, s. Eurasian. An English novelist would, very likely, have ventured it, and given no small offence.
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