26 AUGUST 1893, Page 24

British Dominion in India. By Sir Alfred Lyall. (J. Murray.)

—This is one of the valuable series of " University Extension Manuals." The work of an author of the very highest reputation on his subject, it admirably fulfils its purposes. Sir Alfred Lyall does not by any means agree with Mr. Spencer Walpole's dictum

that "centuries hence some philosophic historian will relate the history of the British in India as a romantic episode which has had no appreciable effect on the progress of the human family."