More Books of the Week (Continued from page 943.) A
very useful, well-written and occasionally amusing book for a particular class of reader is How to Live in England on a Pension, by " Mauser " (Thacker, 5s.). The advice given applies especially to those retiring from India with a small family, and a pension of about 2800 a year ; such persons will be instructed as to where to settle down ; the kind of house to acquire ; how to raise money through a building society, and the advantages of doing so ; the education of children ; and the means by which- their income- may be supplemented-growing Cox's Orange Pippins, for instance, or journalism, which is likely. to be even less profitable ! The advice given is generally sound (except for one amazing misconception, when the author advances the hoary fallacy that an article -heavily advertised must for that reason be expensive to the purchaser) and it is also practical. " Mauser," we gather, is himself an Anglo-Indian official with the virtues as well as the prejudices of a pensioner : his assumption that his class form a caste by themselves in their mother-country is touching, and too often true.
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