Letters from India. By Lady Wilson (A.- C. Macleod). (W.
Blackwood and Sons. 78. 6d. net.)—These letters cover a period of twenty years. They are written by the wife of an Indian official, who is Financial Commissioner of the Punjaub. It deals, as might be expected, with many subjects, and is always illuminat- ing. Camp life, earthquake experiences—Lady Wilson bad the bad or good luck to be at Dharmsala when the great earthquake took place—Indian ways of living and thinking, memories of great events, are among the things Lady Wilson writes about commiscens eerie ludo. Then we are introduced to various interesting person- alities. At one end there is Lord Kitchener; at the other a poor Indian prince who, having been carefully looked after during his minority, has to be set free when he comes of age, and is soon brought to his end by evil company. There is an instructive chapter on "Indian Unrest." We see how the movement is engineered out there, much as it is here, mutatis mutanclis. Hindus there hope to become the ruling race in our stead, politicians here make it their métier to be champions of oppressed peoples. Then we learn something about Tibet and its politics from the best of all possible sources. There are experiences of travel, Indian and other, sketches of Simla and Bawal Pindi and other places, and we get some information about Indian art and Indian music. The book has neither table of contents nor index, but the reader may easily do without these helps by going through it from beginning to end.
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