16 NOVEMBER 1912, Page 13

Sande in the Forties : Being the Journal and Letters

of Colonel Keith Young, C.B., some tints Judge-Advocate-General in India. Edited by Arthur F. Scott (Constable and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)— Mr. Scott's selection of letters gives a vivid picture of life in Scinde under the go ro n.u-ship of Sir Charles Napier, at whose suggestion Colonel (then Captain) Young was appointed Judge-Advocate- General. In that capacity he had frequently to oppose his judgment to the decision of the Governor, and the letters which passed between the two on various cases make up a fascinating portrait of an explosive but lovable character. "I would hang half the mien in Scinde upon half the proof against Buksha Chandia," Napier writes to Young; but Buksba Chandia was acquitted, as Young thought, rightly.