11 AUGUST 1888, Page 24

Indigo. By W. M. Reid. (Thacker, Spink, and Co., Calcutta.)

—Mr. Reid gives us a short sketch of indigo manufacture as carried on in the North-West Provinces, Behar, Bengal, Benares, and Shakabod, with the various processes connected with the growth and rearing of the plant. Several rough illustrations and some tables combine to make up a very convenient little volume, with a good deal of varied information about land-tenure, native labour, and other matters.