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The Residency. By Henry Bruce. (John Long. 6s.)—There are many

interesting details of life in India in this book, but the reader will find it hard to credit that Colonel Moor, the Resident of a native State, would on any pretence have allowed his wife to send for his Eurasian niece to keep house for him. The multiplicity of the races which inhabit India is. made very clear to the reader, and the whole book—though it has certain faults of style—is worth studying by people who are interested in our Indian Empire.