Every-day Life in South India ; or, the Story of
Coopooswamey an Autobiography. (Religious Tract Society.)—We learn from the Preface (which, we take it for granted, is genuine) that the writer is a native of the Madras Presidency, now converted to Christianity, who has written this account of his life at the suggestion of a missionary, and that the work is the result of combination and con- sultation between the two. And a most interesting result it is. It would be difficult, indeed, to point to any book of quite the same kind. Here is a perfectly simple, to all appearance genuine and candid, account, of Hindoo life (in the farmer class) by one who has shared it. We speak with no special acquaintance with the subject ; but it cer- tainly seems to us that this volume is a noticeable acquisition to our knowledge of India.
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