Sir Bampfylde Fuller, who entered the Indian Civil Service in
1873 and resigned in 1907 when he was governing Eastern Bengal, devotes half of his new book. Some Personal Memories (Murray, 12s.), to his Indian experience and half to his later travels and his War work. He left India through a difference with Lord Morley, then Secretary of State, and it is not unnatural that he should speak unkindly of that very autocratic Radical, who seems in his case to have acted without full knowledge of the facts of a Hindu-Moslem dispute. Sir Bampfylde served for a time under Lord Curzon ; he commends his chief's shrewdness and untiring activity, but doubts whether the great Durbar of 1903 was expedient. His chapters on his War work, chiefly in connexion with timber supplies, threw some light on the wastefulness of State management and on the petty jealousies that hindered co,operation whether between out officiaLS or between the: Allies. He deseribes two meetings of the Witr Cabinet, which laid no agenda and listened for the most part to a monologue " from Mr, Lloyd George. " broken by occasional appeals to his colleagues to which they generally returned rather hesitating replies:' fhe author was not impressed.
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