THE LIFE AND WORK OF SIR SYED AHMED KHAN.
The Life and Work of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan. By Major-General G. F. I. Graham. (Hodder and Stoughton. 5s. net.)—This is a new edition of a work published in 1885, when the subject of it was still living. (He was born in 1817 and died in 1898.) His family was connected with the Court of Delhi ; but he entered the English service in 1837. In the Mutiny he saved the European residents at Bijnore. In the new order of things which followed he took a prominent part in urging reform, especially in the matter of education, upon his fellow-religionists. He was the principal mover in the establishment of the Aligarh College. Altogether, he was in the front. This snakes his views on the relation between the British Government in India and its subjects particularly valuable. In a paper which ho wrote shortly after the Mutiny he places among its causes the fact that there was no native member in the Legislative Council. The book is not a new one, and our notice must be short; but we commend it to the attention of our readers.
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