Letters from India. By Alfred William Stratton. With a Memoir
by his Wife, Anna Booth Stratton. (A. Constable and Co. 108. 6d. net.)—Mr. Stratton was born at Toronto, and graduated at the University of that city. "His early political opinions were strongly influenced by Mr. Goldwin Smith, of whom he was a great admirer. He was always a good British Imperialist, though a hater of jingoism in any form." After graduating he took teaching work at Hamilton, which he left some four years later for the Johns Hopkins University, where he obtained first a Scholarship in Greek and Sanskrit, then a Fellow- ship in Sanskrit and Philology. During this time he was a lecturer in these subjects. Sanskrit, at first pursued in connexion with Greek, ultimately with kindred studies, absorbed his energies. ' Then he went to Chicago, where he after a time became Associate Professor of Sanskrit and Indo-European Philology. From Chicago he went in 1899 to take up the position of Principal
• of the Oriental College in Lahore and Registrar of the Panjab University. He reached Lahore on November 24th, 1899, and , died something less than three years later of fever, contracted in Labors, -but developed during a tbut of recreation in Kashmir. The letters maialy belong to this period. They are- always interesting, especially for what they tell us of University life in Northern India, of the class of native scholars, and of certain inquiries into Sanskrit literature.
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