3 OCTOBER 1903, Page 39

The Peril of the Sword. By Colonel Harcourt. (Skeffington and

Son. 6s.)—Colonel Harcourt aims at great historical accuracy in his novels of the Mutiny, and if his books suffer a little from the artistic point of view, the events described are in themselves so thrilling that the reader is quite sufficiently interested. The love story lathe present volume is not particularly engrossing, but the account of the siege of Lucknow is very vivid, and the whole book gives a stirring picture of that dramatic period in the history of the English in India.