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Contemporary Thought in India, by Dr. Underwood (Wil- liams and

Norgate, 5s.), is a useful but not brilliant conspectus of the political; social; and religious movements among the two and a-half million English literates who leaven a lump of 319 million illiterates. There are interesting chapters on Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Tagore, and Professor Radhakrishnan the sections on social life arc necessarily suPerficial, for the questions involved are so vast that it would have been impossible even to mention them all within the limits of a book such as this. * * * *