13 OCTOBER 1928, Page 31

Two new books on India are India's Constitutional Problems, by

Sir Sivaswamy Aiyer (Taraporevala, 12s. 6d.), and The Land Pirates of India (Seeley, Service, 21s.). The latter is a very fascinating description by Mr. W. J. Hatch, late of the Indian Police, of one of the several criminal tribes that exist in India. There are 229,906 professional and hereditary criminals in the Madras Presidency alone who teach their little boys thieving as other children learn geography.