REMINISCENCES OF THREE-QUARTERS OF A CENTURY IN INDIA.
Some Reminiscences of Three-Quarters of a Century in India. By a Mutiny Veteran. (Luzao and Co. 2s. ad. not.)—Mr. Churcher, the author of this little volume, begins with some general recollections of India in the pro-Mutiny days and of his own sporting adventures. (There is a specially good story of how he helped a mother to recover a child which an eagle had carried off.) He thus accounts for himself, so to speak. He was used to act promptly, and ho had learnt a good deal about the people and the country. Thus when the Mutiny broke out he was able to help on the side of order. His principal service was an expedition to Etah, of which ho gives a very interesting narra- tive. Ho certainly makes out a case against the authorities in the matter of rewards and punishments. A. spy whom Mr. Churcher had found useful was made Rajah of Etali ; his position had been a village writor, receiving a salary of 14s. per month from the landlord, and doubtless what he could screw out of the tenants. Mr. Churcher himself got a pension of £100 but he had to wait fifty years for it I
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