A Brief History of the Indian People, (Triibner and Co.),
by Dr. W. W. Hunter, is warmly to be commended as a high-class school- book, and also as an introduction to the other and larger books on the same subject. It is admirably arranged and concisely written ; and the devices of varieties of type are used to mark both salient points in the narrative and digressions from it. Dr. Hunter has, it is well known, opinions of his own on ladle., to which he adheres tenaciously. But he does not obtrude them here ; on the contrary, he has kept in view throughout his own doctrine that "the greatest service which an Indian historian can at present render to India, is to state the actual facts in such a way that they will be read." This compact little volume ought to do much to remove that ignorance of the history of India which it is to be feared is very nearly as much the reproach of our schools as it was when Macaulay pointed it out.
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