The Citizen of India. By W. Lee-Warner. (Macmillan and -Co.)
— This is no ordinary handbook, as the reader soon sees. Let any one study paragraphs 5-7 in chap. 1, "The Village," dealing respectively with the good and bad of the old system. After the " Village" comes the " City." Here we have a noticeable description of the system of municipal taxation. From these we pass on to the "District " and its "Executive." A sketch follows of the British and Native States, of the supreme Government, and the system of home control. Other chapters give a description of the various races of the peninsula, of legislation, of the Fleet and Army (two hundred and six thousand, of whom seventy-three thousand are Euro- peans), of the Public Health, Taxation, Public Works, &c. Mr. Lee-Warner's book, while thoroughly judicial in temper, is a great defence of British rule in India.—Along with this we may mention Constable's Hand-Gazetteer of India, com- piled under the direction of J. G. Bartholomew, edited, with additions, by Jas. Burgess, C.I.E. (A. Constable, 10s. 6d.) The foundation of the book is the index to the " Hand-Atlas of India " ; additions from various sources bring up the number of names from nearly twelve thousand to nearly twenty thousand.
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