Gold, Sport, and Coffee-Planting in Mysore. By R. IT. Elliot.
(A. Constable and Co.)—Mr. Elliot is well acquainted with such pressing questions of the hour as Casts, Indian Silver Currency, and Native Representation, and is always good reading, par- ticularly in his chapter on Caste. We recommend his well-known remarks on the aggravation of famines caused' by the use of money as a medium, and the consequent facility with which the interior is drained of grain. The remedies are wells and railways. The sporting chapters will be found, we doubt not, the most fascinating, for Mr. Elliot on tigers is delightful reading ; he has so many details to tell us. Moreover, he does, what is not always done, justice to the courage'of the natives, who have not, like the European hunter, been trained to the use of firearms from early youth. Mr. Elliot has also chapters on snakes, bears, bison, and jungle pets, But, indeed, he has invested coffee-planting with interest, and writes with evident common-sense on shade and slope, both of vital importance to the coffee shrub. Let every one who cares about India in general, sport or coffee-planting in particular, read Mr, Elliot's volume, for he is an experienced old band.
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