A Month in a Dandi. By Christina S. Bremner. (Simpkin
and Marshall.)—Miss Bremner is a little sensitive, it is clear, on the subject of her book, and makes something like an apology for it. " In spite of the slender thread of personal experience on which -these impressions are strung, they touch on matters of profound importance." Exactly; if it be fully understood that the personal experience gives but the very slightest title, if any hold at all, to speak on these matters, no harm is done. Long residence in India may qualify for an authoritative opinion ; a brief journey is quite as likely to disqualify as not, just because it is so difficult not to overestimate the value of casual impressions. Miss Bremner's book is not without value, and it is certainly agreeably written ; but we certainly prefer her experiences of travel to her Indian politics.
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