6 OCTOBER 1900, Page 30

THE AMBER ABDURRAHMAN.

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEX "SPECTATOR."] your interesting article on " Abdurrahman Khan" in the Spectator of September 29th you complain that the chapter of autobiography which appears in the Monthly Review "is not quite as delightful on closer acquaintance as it seemed at first sight," because the " Ameer tells us so little of what he thinks," and "gives no hint of his true wishes and apprehensions." May I remind you that the article, as is stated in the Monthly Review, is but an excerpt from the com- plete autobiography of the Ameer, which will be published before the end of this year? When the book appears I think you will find that the points to which you now call attention as shortcomings are very fully dealt with in it.—I am,