The Daughter of Brahma. By I. A. R. Wylie. (Mills
and Boone 6s.)—The English reader will find it hard to fathom exactly why Sarasvati, the heroine of this book, should have been called "The Daughter of Brahma" and elevated to the rank of a demi-god- dess. In fact, much the most interesting part of the novel is the account of the life which Sir David Hurst and his wife lived in England, the lady being herself the Sarasvati mentioned above. Whether any one quite so disagreeable as David Hurst's mother could exist may be doubted, and it seems still more unlikely that such a person would have exercised a tremendous fascination over most people who knew her. The book as a whole, however, is well worth reading. The life of Anglo-Indians is cleverly drawn, and a more clearly realized portrait is given of Sarasvati herself than is usual with English descriptions of high-caste natives.
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