20 JUNE 1863, Page 23

The House of Scindea. By John Hope. (Longmans.)—The author of

this small volume, who formerly held the combined appointments of superintending surgeon of Scindea's contingent and surgeon to the Court of Gwalior, wishes to arouse public indignation at the manner in which the Maharajah of that State was treated by Lord Ellenborough in 1843. The brief sketch of the Governor-General's proceedings which is designed to carry out this object is ably written, and does considerable credit to Mr. Hope's powers of irony ; but we fear that the affair to which it re- fers is so completely a thing of the past, that it will not be easy to excite the public interest in it to any notable degree.