An American Girl at the Durbar. By Sholland Bradley, (John
Lane. 6s.)—The millions of English people who were not able to go to India for the Durbar will find they know a, great deal about it if they carefully read this book, at the same time paying several visits to the Scala Theatre. The author, who is obviously not " Shetland Bradley " but "Lady Hendley," vaguely endeavours, by introducing a little love-making among the characters, to make her new volume not read like a handbook, but as a matter of fact she gives such detailed accounts of the doings of every day in the camp at Delhi that her intention is not only futile but unnecessary. Tho reader is very much more interested in the account of all the pageants, and of how the Kink, and Queen and various distinguished personages looked, than he could possibly be in the rather futile happenings of the fictitious part of the novel. From the point of view of a handbook and of a handbook only, the story can be recommended. From any other it is more than feeble.
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