Letters from India during the Mutiny and Waziri Campaigns. By
Colonel John Chalmers. (T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh.)— John Chalmers was an engineer in the service of the Honourable East India Company when the Mutiny broke out, became a soldier, and did good service in the years that followed. It was a mistake, we think, to print the letters without omission, or, so printing them, not to add some notes. Letters written at the time naturally give reports either false or exaggerated. So we have statements about the doings of the mutineers which are now known to be untrue. A rumour about the death of General Anson should not have been repeated. Private quarrels and grievances are described which it would have been better to leave in oblivion. The letters would have been equally interesting without these objectionable passages. Indeed, it would have been a pity to let them perish.
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