Bandobast and Khabar : Reminiscences of India. By Colonel Cuthbert
Larking. (Hurst and Blackett.)—This volume is, in the main, a pleasant and unpretending account of sport, especially tiger-hunting. Interspersed are some sketches of Indian men and manners. The author formed favourable opinions of most of those whom he saw, especially of the Nizam, whom he speaks of as a thoroughly high-principled ruler—(we may suggest that " unex- ceptional " is a dubious word ; " exceptional " and " unexceptionable " are both words of praise, but the compound is dubious). A. ourioua story is told on p. 152 of recovery from a cobra-bite. The wound was cauterised ; the patient had to drink a bottle of brandy, and was walked up and down for hours by four Sepoys. Previously to cauterisation, he had tightly bound up the arm above the wound (it was in the hand), and plunged it into boiling water. We have heard before that a wound in the extremity of a limb is not always fatal.
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