Indian Village Folk: their Works and Ways. By T. B.
Pandian. (Elliot Stcek.)—Mr. Pandian, who has already given the English public an idea of what appearance their works and ways present to an English eye, has put together here some pictures of village life. They have more of the photograph than of the artistic portrait in them. But they should serve their purpose. No one can read this little volume without gaining some notion of what Indian life is. Social differences are much more definitely marked there than they are here, and the village type repeats itself more regularly here. Every village has its various officials, artisans of different trades, its barber, moneylender, in short, the whole apparatus of life, and Mr. Pandian describes them all with abundance of fidelity and some spirit.
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