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Reminiscences Of An Indian Police Official. By Arthur...

(The Roxburghe Press. 7s. 6d.)—This is a second edition of a book, which first appeared about four years ago, giving a vivid and very interesting account of the seamy side of......

Pasteur. By Percy Frankland And Mrs. Frankland. (cassell...

from the biographical point of view, Pasteur has been pretty effectually exploited of recent years—it is little more than two years since he died, at the age of seventy-......

Banani. By Henry Stanley Newman. (headley.)—in This...

Newman records the history of the transition from slavery to freedom in Zanzibar and Pemba,—a transition, by the way, which has not yet been fully effected. Not long ago a......

The Coldstream Guards In The Crimea. By Lieutenant -...

(A. D. Innes and Co.) — Colonel Ross.of Bladensburgh has now supplemented his "History of the Coldstream Guards from 1815 to 1885," a review of which appeared in our columns......

Our Troubles In Poona And The Deccan. By Arthur Crawford,

C.M.G. (Archibald Constable and Co. 14s.)—The recent dis- turbances in Western India have attracted anxious attention to a district which the author, Mr. Arthur Crawford, knows......

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