19 NOVEMBER 1881, page 23

Mr. Alfred Austin's New Tragedy.* To Many Readers, This...

will be all the more welcome— as we confess it is to us — because it has been written primarily to be acted, and only secondarily to be read. Mr. Austin tells us in his preface......

Two Books About India

THE majority of books about India are certainly not attractive to the general reader. Two causes in particular conspire to this. One is the very greatness and, at the same time,......