1 AUGUST 1863, Page 24

British Influence in India. By F. C. Hodgson, B.A. (Macmillan

and Co.)---:This is the essay which gained the Le Bas prize at Cambridge in the year 1862. Mr. Hodgson appears to be of opinion that the British Government of India has exercised an uniformly favourable influence on the material development of that country. His essay, which is by no means so well written as might have been expected, affords ample proof that he has taken considerable pains to make himself acquainted with his subject.