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CURRENT LITERATURE.

The Englishman in India. By Charles Raikes. (Longmans.)— When we opened this book we expected to light on a description of an Englishman's life in India. The contents are in reality something very different. Under the form of semi-biographical sketches of the chief men who made and carried on our Indian Empire, we have a concise and simple account of its history. The various chapters were pub- lished in a youthful and religions magazine, but they do not bear any trace of cant or childishness. It is not every book of the kind on which We can pass such an euloginm.