TWENTY-ONE DATS 
 IN INDIA. 
 
 OU TUB 
 
 TOUR OF Sill All BAM, K.G.B. 
 
 T\Y 
 
 GEORGE ABEEIGII-MACKAY. 
 
 THIRD EDITION. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 ,V II. ALLEN & CO., 13, WATERLOO PLACE, 
 
 PALL MALL. S.W. 
 

 ea* 
 
 "SUsO/ 
 
 cfty. tyfw&^^tZS&A*. 
 
 v&nj 
 
 l*n*versu/y (f £a/</t. 
 
TWENTY-ONE DAYS 
 
 IN INDIA. 
 
TWENTY-ONE DAYS 
 IN INDIA, 
 
 OR THE 
 
 TOUR OF SIR ALI BABA, K.C.B. 
 
 BY 
 
 OEORGE ABERIGH-MACKAY. 
 
 REVISED AND CORRECTED BY THE AUTHOR. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 W. H. ALLEN & CO., 13 WATERLOO PLACE, 
 PALL MALL. S.W. 
 
 1881. 
 
 (All rights reserved.) 
 
DS4£2 
 A3 
 
 i ICNRY MORSE STEPHENS 
 
Q<_ 
 
 PKEFACE 
 
 The following papers were originally written, 
 as will be gathered from the text, for Vanity 
 Fair. 
 
 Indore, 
 
 October 1880. 
 
 511466 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 No. I. — The Viceroy .... 1 
 No. II. — The A. -D.-C. -in- Waiting, an 
 
 Arrangement in Scarlet and Gold 9 
 
 No. III. — The Commander-in-Chief . . 17 
 No. IV. — The Archdeacon, a Man of both 
 
 Worlds 27 
 
 No. V. — The Secretary to Government . 37 
 
 No. VI. — H.E. the Bengali Baboo . . 47 
 
 No. VII.— The Raja 57 
 
 No. VIII. — The Political Agent, a Man 
 
 in Buckram 69 
 
 No. IX. — The Collector .... 79 
 
 No. X. — Baby in Partibus . . 89 
 No. XI. — The Red Chuprassie ; or, The 
 
 Corrupt Lictor • . • • 99 
 
Vlll CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 No. XII. — The Planter ; a Farmer Prince 107 
 No. XIII. — The Eurasian ; a Study in 
 
 Chiaro-oscuro . . . . .117 
 No. XIV.— The Villager .... 125 
 No. XV.— The Old Colonel . . .137 
 No. XVI.— The Civil Surgeon. . . 147 
 No. XVII.— The Shikarry . . .157 
 No. XVIII.— The Grass - Widow in Ne- 
 
 PHELOCOCCYGIA . . . . .167 
 
 No. XIX.— The Travelling M.P., the 
 
 British Lion Rampant . . .179 
 No. XX.— Mem-Sahib .... 189 
 No. XXI. — Ali Baba Alone ; the Last 
 
 Day ...... 201 
 
No. I. 
 
 THE VICEEOY. 
 
No. I. 
 
 THE VIOEEOY, 
 
 It is certainly a little intoxicating to spend a 
 day with the Great Ornamental. You do not 
 see much of him perhaps ; hut he is a Pre- 
 sence to he felt, something floating loosely 
 ahout in wide pantaloons and flying skirts, dif- 
 fusing as he passes the fragrance of smile and 
 pleasantry and cigarette. The air around him 
 is laden with honeyed murmurs ; gracious 
 whispers play about the twitching, bewitching 
 corners of his delicious mouth. He calls 
 everything by " soft names in many a mused 
 rhyme." Deficits, Public Works, and Cotton 
 Duties are transmuted by the alchemy of his 
 
 1 * 
 
4 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 gaiety into sunshine and songs. An office-box 
 on his writing-table an office-box is to him, 
 and it is something more : it holds cigarettes. 
 No one knows what sweet thoughts are his as 
 Chloe flutters through the room, blushful and 
 startled, or as a fresh beaker full of the warm 
 South glows between his amorous eye and the 
 sun. 
 
 " I have never known 
 Praise of love or wine 
 That panted forth a flood of sweetness so divine." 
 
 I never tire of looking at a Viceroy. He is 
 a being so heterogeneous from us ! He is the 
 centre of a world with which he has no affinity. 
 He is a veiled prophet. He who is the axis of 
 India, the centre round which the Empire 
 rotates, is necessarily screened from all know- 
 ledge of India. He lisps no syllable of any 
 Indian tongue ; no race or caste, or mode of 
 Indian life is known to him ; all our delight- 
 ful provinces of the sun that lie off the rail- 
 way are to him an undiscovered country ; 
 Ghebers, Moslems, Hindoos blend together in 
 one dark indistinguishable mass before his eye. 
 
 A Nawab, whom the Foreign Office once 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. O 
 
 farmed out to me, often used to ask what the 
 use of a Viceroy was. I do not believe that 
 he meant to be profane. The question would 
 again and again recur to his mind, and find 
 itself on his lips. I always replied with the 
 counter question, " What is the use of India ? M 
 He never would see — the Oriental mind does 
 not see these things — that the chief end and 
 object of India was the Viceroy ; that, in fact, 
 India was the plant and the Viceroy the 
 flower. 
 
 I have often thought of writing a hymn on 
 the Beauty of Viceroys ; and have repeatedly 
 attuned my mind to the subject ; but my in- 
 ability to express myself in figurative language, 
 and my total ignorance of everything pertain- 
 ing to metre, rhythm, and rhyme, make me 
 rather hesitate to employ verse. Certainly, 
 the subject is inviting, and I am surprised that 
 no singer has arisen. How can anyone view 
 the Viceroyal halo of scarlet domestics, with 
 all the bravery of coronets, supporters, and 
 shields in golden embroidery and lace, without 
 emotion ! How can the tons of gold and 
 silver plate that once belonged to John Com- 
 
O ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 pany, Bahadur, and that now repose on the 
 groaning board of the Great Ornamental, amid 
 a glory of Himalayan flowers, or blossoms from 
 Eden's fields of asphodel, be reflected upon 
 the eye's retina without producing positive 
 thrills and vibrations of joy (that cannot be 
 measured in terms of ohm or farad) shooting 
 up and down the spinal cord and into the most 
 hidden seats of pleasure ! I certainly can 
 never see the luxurious bloom of the silver 
 sticks arranged in careless groups about the 
 vast portals without a feeling approaching to 
 awe and worship, and a tendency to fling small 
 coin about with a fine medieval profusion. I 
 certainly can never drain those profound golden 
 cauldrons seething with champagne without a 
 tendency to break into loud expressions of the 
 inward music and conviviality that simmer in 
 my soul. Salutes of cannon, galloping escorts, 
 processions of landaus, beautiful teams of Eng- 
 lish horses, trains of private saloon carriages 
 (cooled with water trickling over sweet jungle 
 grasses) streaming through the sunny land, ex- 
 pectant crowds of beauty with hungry eyes 
 making a delirious welcome at every stage, 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 7 
 
 the whole country blooming into dance and 
 banquet and fresh girls at every step taken — 
 these form the fair guerdon that stirs my 
 breast at certain moments and makes me often 
 resolve, after dinner, "to scorn delights and 
 live laborious days," and sell my beautiful 
 soul, illuminated with art and poetry, to the 
 devil of Industry, with reversion to the supreme 
 secretariat. 
 
 How mysterious and delicious are the cool 
 penetralia of the Viceregal Office ! It is the 
 sensorium of the Empire ; it is the seat of 
 thought ; it is the abode of moral responsi- 
 bility ! What battles, what famines, what 
 excursions, of pleasure, what banquets and 
 pageants, what concepts of change have sprung 
 into life here ! Every pigeon-hole contains a 
 potential revolution ; every office-box cradles 
 the embryo of a war or dearth. What shocks 
 and vibrations, what deadly thrills does this 
 little thunder-cloud office transmit to far-away 
 provinces lying beyond rising and setting suns. 
 Ah ! Vanity, these are pleasant lodgings for 
 live years, let who may turn the kaleidoscope 
 after us. 
 
8 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 A little errant knight of the press who has 
 just arrived on the D electable Mountains, 
 comes rushing in, looks over nay shoulder, and 
 says, "A deuced expensive thing a Viceroy." 
 This little errant knight would take the thunder 
 at a quarter of the price, and keep the Empire 
 paralytic with change and fear of change as if 
 the great Thirty- thousand-pounder himself were 
 on Olympus. 
 
No. II. 
 THE A.D.C.-IN-WAITING, 
 
 AN ARRANGEMENT IN SCARLET AND GOLD. 
 
11 
 
 No. II. 
 THE A.D.C.-IN-WAITINGr 
 
 AN ARRANGEMENT IN SCARLET AND GOLD. 
 
 The tone of the A.D.C. is subdued. He stands 
 in doorways and strokes his moustache. He 
 nods sadly to you as you pass. He is pre- 
 occupied with — himself. He has a motherly 
 whisper for Secretaries and Members of 
 Council. His way with ladies is sisterly — 
 undemonstratively affectionate. He tows up 
 rajas to H.E., and stands in the offing. His 
 attitude towards rajas is one of melancholy 
 reserve. He will perform the prescribed ob- 
 servances, if he cannot approve of them. 
 Indeed, generally, he disapproves of the Indian 
 
12 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 people, though he condones their existence. 
 For a brother in aiguillettes there is a Masonic 
 smile and a half- embarrassed familiarity, as if 
 found out in acting his part. But confidence 
 is soon restored with melancholy glances 
 around, and profane persons who may be 
 standing about move uneasily away. 
 
 An A.D.C. should have no tastes. He is 
 merged in " the house." He must dance and 
 ride admirably ; he ought to shoot ; he may 
 sing and paint in water-colours, or botanise a 
 little, and the faintest aroma of the most vola- 
 tile literature will do him no harm ; but he 
 cannot be allowed preferences. If he has a 
 weakness for very pronounced collars and shirt- 
 cuffs in mufti, it may be connived at, provided 
 he be honestly nothing else but the man in 
 collars and cuffs. 
 
 When a loud, joyful, and steeplechasing Lord, 
 in the pursuit of pleasure and distant wars, 
 dons the golden cords for a season, the world 
 understands that this is masquerading, skittles, 
 and a joke. One must not confound the ideal 
 A.D.C. with such a figure. 
 
 The A.D.C. has four distinct aspects or 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 13 
 
 phases — (1) the ful] summer sunshine and 
 bloom of scarlet and gold for Queen's birth- 
 days and high ceremonials ; (2) the dark frock- 
 coat and belts in which to canter behind his 
 Lord; (3) the evening tail-coat, turned down 
 with light blue and adorned with the Imperial 
 arms on gold buttons; (4) and, finally, the 
 quiet disguises of private life. 
 
 It is in the sunshine glare of scarlet and 
 gold that the A.D.C. is most awful and un- 
 approachable ; it is in this aspect that the 
 splendour of vice-imperialism seems to beat 
 upon him most fiercely. The Eajas of Eajpu- 
 tana, the diamonds of Golconda, the gold of 
 the Wynaad, the opium of Malwa, the cotton 
 of the Berars, and the Stars of India seem to 
 be typified in the richness of his attire and the 
 conscious superiority of his demeanour. Is he 
 not one of the four satellites of that Jupiter 
 who swims in the highest azure fields of the 
 eastern heavens ? 
 
 Frock-coated and belted, he passes into 
 church or elsewhere behind his Lord, like an 
 aerolite from some distant universe, trailing 
 cloudy visions of that young lady's Paradise of 
 
14 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 bright lights and music, champagne, mayon- 
 naise, and "just-one-more-turn," which is 
 situated behind the flagstaff on the hill. 
 
 The tail-coat, with gold buttons, velvet cuffs, 
 and light-blue silk lining, is quite a demi- 
 official, small-and-early arrangement. It is 
 compatible with a patronising and somewhat 
 superb flirtation in the verandah ; nay, even 
 under the pine-trees beyond the Gurkha sen- 
 tinel, whence many- twinkling Jakko may be 
 admired ; it is compatible with a certain shadow 
 of human sympathy and weakness. An A.D.C. 
 in tail-coat and gold buttons is no longer 
 a star; he is only a fire-balloon; though he 
 may twinkle in heaven, he can descend to 
 -earth. But in the quiet disguises of private 
 life he is the mere stick of a rocket. He is 
 quite of the earth. This scheme of clothing is 
 -compatible with the tenderest offices of gaming 
 or love — offices of which there shall be no re- 
 collection on the re- assumption of uniform and 
 on re -apotheosis. An A.D.C. in plain clothes 
 has been known to lay the long odds at whist, 
 and to qualify, very nearly, for a co-respondent - 
 ship. 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 15 
 
 In addition to furnishing rooms in his own 
 person, an A.D.C. is sometimes required to 
 copy my Lord's letters on mail- day, and, in 
 due subordination to the Military Secretary, to 
 superintend the stables, kitchen, or Invitation 
 Department. 
 
 After performing these high functions, it is 
 hard if an A.D.C. should ever have to revert to 
 the buffooneries of the parade-ground, or to the 
 vulgar intimacies of a mess. It is hard that 
 one who has for five years been identified with 
 the Empire should ever again come to be re- 
 garded as "Jones of the 10th," and spoken of 
 as " Punch " or " Bobby " by old boon com- 
 panions. How can a man who has been behind 
 the curtain, and who has seen la premiere dan- 
 sense of the Empire practisi ng her steps before 
 the manager Strachey, in familiar chaff and 
 talk with the Council ballet, while the little 
 scene-painter and Press Commissioner stood 
 aside with cocked ears, and the privileged 
 violoncellist made his careless jests — how, I 
 say, can one who has thus been above the 
 clouds on Olympus ever associate with the 
 gaping, chatiermg, irresponsible herd below ? 
 
16 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 It is well that our Ganymede should pass 
 away from heaven into temporary eclipse; it 
 is well that hefore being exposed to the rude 
 gaze of the world he should moult his rainbow 
 plumage in the Cimmeria of the Eajas. Here 
 we shall see him again, a blinking ignis fatuus 
 in a dark land — " so shines a good deed in a 
 naughty world," thinks the Foreign Office. 
 
No. in. 
 THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. 
 
19 
 
 No. III. 
 THE COMMANDEB-IN-CHIEF, 
 
 At Simla and Calcutta the Government of 
 India always sleeps with a revolver under its 
 pillow — that revolver is the Commander-in-' 
 Chief. There is a tacit understanding that this 
 revolver is not to be let off; indeed, sometimes 
 it is believed that this revolver is not loaded. 
 
 The Commander-in-Chief is himself an army. 
 His transport, medical attendance, and provi- 
 sioning are cared for departmentally, and 
 watched over by responsible officers. He is 
 a host in himself; and a corps of observa- 
 tion. 
 
 2 * 
 
20 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 AH the world observes him. His slightest 
 movement creates a molecular disturbance 
 in type, and vibrates into newspaper para- 
 graphs. 
 
 When Commanders-in Chief are born the 
 world is unconscious of any change. No one 
 knows when a Commander-in-Chief is born. 
 No joyful father, no pale mother has ever ex- 
 perienced such an event as the birth of a Com- 
 mander-in-Chief in the family. No Mrs Gamp 
 has ever leant over the banister and declared 
 to the expectant father below that it was " a 
 £ne healthy Commander-in-Chief." Therefore, 
 a Commander-in-Chief is not like a poet. But 
 when a Commander-in-Chief dies, the spirit 
 of a thousand Beethovens sobs and wails in 
 the air ; dull cannon roar slowly out their 
 heavy grief; silly rifles gibber and chatter de- 
 moniacally over his grave ; and a cocked hat, 
 •emptier than ever, rides with the mockery of 
 despair on his coffin. 
 
 On Sunday evening, after tea and catechism, 
 the Supreme Council generally meet for riddles 
 and forfeits in the snug little cloak-room par- 
 lour at PeterhofF. " Can an army tailor make 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 21 
 
 a Commander-in-Chief?" was once asked. 
 Eight old heads were scratched and searched, 
 hut no answer was found. No sound was 
 heard save the seething whisper of champagne 
 ehbing and flowing in the eight old heads. 
 Outside, the wind moaned through the rhodo- 
 dendron trees; within, the Commander-in-Chief 
 wept peacefully. He felt the awkwardness 
 of the situation. An aide-de-camp stood at the 
 door hiccupping idly. He was known to have 
 invested all his paper currency in Sackville 
 Street; and he felt in honour hound to say 
 that the riddle was a little hard on the army 
 tailors. So the subject dropped. 
 
 A Commander-in-Chief is one of the most 
 beautiful articles of social upholstery in India. 
 He sits in a large chair in the drawing-room. 
 Heads and bodies sway vertically in passing 
 him. He takes the oldest woman in to dinner; 
 he gratifies her with his drowsy cackle. He 
 says " Yes " and " No " to everyone with 
 drowsy civility ; everyone is conciliated. His 
 stars dimly twinkle — twinkle ; the host and 
 hostess enjoy their light. After dinner he 
 decants claret into his venerable person, and 
 
22 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 tells an old story; the company smile with 
 innocent joy. He rejoins the ladies and leers 
 kindly on a pretty woman; she forgives her- 
 self a month of indiscretions. He touches 
 Lieutenant the Hon. Jupiter Smith on the 
 elbow and inquires after his mother ; a noble 
 family is gladdened. He is thus a source of 
 harmless happiness to himself and to those 
 around him. 
 
 If a round of ball cartridge has been wasted 
 by a suicide, or a pair of ammunition boots 
 carried off by a deserter, the Commander-in- 
 Chief sometimes visits a great cantonment 
 under a salute of seventeen guns. The mili- 
 tary then express their joy in their peculiar 
 fashion, according to their station in life. The 
 cavalry soldier takes out his charger and 
 gallops heedlessly up and down all the roads 
 in the station. The sergeants of all arms 
 fume about as if transacting some important 
 business between the barracks and their officers' 
 quarters. Subalterns hang about the Mess, 
 whacking their legs with small pieces of 
 cane and drinking pegs with mournful earnest- 
 ness. The Colonel sends for everyone who 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 28 
 
 has not the privilege of sending for him ; and 
 says nothing to each one, sternly and deci- 
 sively. The Majors, and the officers doing 
 general duty, go to the Club and swear before 
 the civilians that they are worked off their 
 legs, complaining fiercely to themselves that 
 the Service is going, &c. &c. The Deputy- 
 Assistant- Quartermaster- General puts on all 
 the gold lace he is allowed to wear, and 
 gallops to the Assistant-Adjutant- General, — 
 where he has tiffin. The Major- General-Com- 
 manding writes notes to each of his friends, 
 and keeps orderlies flying at random in every 
 direction. 
 
 The Commander-in-Chief — who had a dis- 
 turbed night in the train — sleeps peacefully 
 throughout the day, and leaves under another 
 salute in the afternoon. He shakes hands 
 with everyone he can see at the station, and 
 jumps into a long saloon carriage, followed by 
 his staff. 
 
 " A deuced active old fellow ! " everyone 
 says; and they go home and dine solemnly 
 with one another under circumstances of 
 extraordinary importance. 
 
24 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 The effect of the Commander-in-Chief is 
 very remarkable on the poor Indian, whose 
 untutored mind sees a Lord in everything. He 
 calls the Commander-in-Chief " the Jungy 
 Lord," or War-Lord, in contradistinction to 
 the " Mulky - Lord," or Country - Lord, the 
 appellation of the Viceroy. To the poor 
 Indian this War-Lord is an object of profound 
 interest and speculation. He has many aspects 
 that resemble the other and more intelligible 
 Lord. An aide-de-camp rides behind him ; 
 hats, or hands, rise electrically as he passes ; 
 yet it is felt in secret that he is not pregnant 
 with such thunder-clouds of rupees, and that 
 he cannot make or mar a Eaja. To the Eaja 
 it is an ever-recurring question whether it is 
 necessary or expedient to salaam to the Jungy 
 Lord and call upon him. He is hedged about 
 with servants who will require to be richly 
 propitiated before any dusky countryman gets 
 access to this Lord of theirs. Is it, then, worth 
 while to pass through this fire to the possible 
 Moloch who sits beyond ? Will this process of 
 parting with coin — this Valley of the Shadow 
 of Death — lead them to any palpable ad van- 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 25 
 
 tage ? Perhaps the War-Lord with his red 
 right hand can add guns to their salute; 
 perhaps he will speak a recommendatory word 
 to his caste-fellow, the Country Lord ? These 
 are precious possibilities. 
 
 A Kaja whom I am now prospecting for the 
 Foreign Office asked me the other day where 
 Commanders-in-Chief were ripened, seeing that 
 they were always so mellow and blooming. 
 I mentioned a few nursery gardens I knew 
 of in and about Whitehall and Pall Mall. 
 H.H. at once said that he should like to plant 
 his son there, if I would water him with intro- 
 ductions. This is young 'Arry Bobbery, already 
 favourably known on the Indian Turf as an 
 enterprising and successful defaulter. 
 
 You will know 'Arry Bobbery if you meet 
 him, dear Vanity, by the peculiarly gracious 
 way in which he forgives and forgets should 
 you commit the indiscretion of lending him 
 money. You may be sure that he will never 
 allude to the matter again, but will rather wear 
 a piquant do-it-again manner, like our irre- 
 sistible little friend Conny B . I don't 
 
 believe, however, that Bobbery will ever become 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 a Commander-in-Chief, though his distant 
 cousin, Scindia, is a General, and though they 
 talk of pawning the 'long-shore Governorship of 
 Bombay to Sir Cursingjee Damtheboy. 
 
No. IV. 
 
 THE ARCHDEACON, 
 
 A MAN OF BOTH WORLDS. 
 
29 
 
 No. IV. 
 
 THE AECHDEACON, 
 
 A MAN OF BOTH WORLDS. 
 
 The Press Commissioner has been trying by a 
 strained exercise of his prerogative to make 
 me spend this day with the Bishop, and not 
 with the Archdeacon ; but I disregard the 
 Press Commissioner ; I make light of him ; I 
 treat his authority as a joke. What authority 
 has a pump ? Is a pump an analyst and a 
 coroner ? 
 
 Why should I spend a day with the Bishop ? 
 What claim has the Bishop on my improving 
 conversation ? I am not his sponsor. Besides, 
 
80 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 he might do me harm — I am not quite sure 
 of his claret. I admit his superior ecclesias- 
 tical hirth ; I recollect his connection with 
 St. Peter; and I am conscious of the more 
 potent spells and effluences of his shovel-hat 
 and apron; hut I find the atmosphere of his 
 heights cold, and the rarefied air he breathes 
 does not feed my lungs. Up yonder, above 
 the clouds of human weakness, my vertebra? 
 become unhinged, my bones inarticulate, and I 
 collapse. I meet missionaries, and I hear the 
 music of the spheres; and I long to descend 
 again to the circles of the every-day inferno 
 where my friends are. 
 
 " These distant stars I can forego ; 
 This kind, warm earth is all I know." 
 
 I am sorry for it. I really have upward ten- 
 dencies ; but I have never been able to fix upon 
 a balloon. The High Church balloon always 
 seems to me too light; and the Low Church 
 balloon too heavy ; while no experienced aero- 
 naut can tell me where the Broad Church 
 balloon is bound for ; thus, though a feather- 
 weight sinner, here I am upon the firm earth. 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 81 
 
 So come along, my dear Archdeacon, let us 
 have a stroll down the Mall, and a chat about 
 Temporalities, Fabrics, " Mean Whites," and 
 little Mrs. Lollipop, " the joy of wild asses." 
 
 An Archdeacon is one of the busiest men in 
 India — especially when he is up on the hill 
 among the sweet pine-trees. He is the recog- 
 nised guardian of public morality ; and the hill 
 captains and the semi-detached wives lead him 
 a rare life. There is no junketing at Gold- 
 stein's, no picnic at the waterfalls, no games at 
 Ammandale, no rehearsals at Herr Felix von 
 Batten's, no choir practice at the church even, 
 from which he can safely absent himself. A 
 word, a kiss, some matrimonial charm dis- 
 pelled — these electric disturbances of society 
 must be averted. The Archdeacon is the light- 
 ning conductor ; where he is, the levin of 
 naughtiness passes to the ground, and society 
 is not shocked. 
 
 In the Bishop and the ordinary padre we 
 have far-away people of another world. They 
 know little of us ; we know nothing of them. 
 We feel much constraint in their presence. 
 The presence of the ecclesiastical sex imposes 
 
32 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 severe restrictions upon our conversation. The 
 Lieutenant-Governor of the South-E astern 
 Provinces once complained to me that the 
 presence of a clergyman rendered nine-tenths of 
 his vocabulary contraband, and choked up his 
 fountains of anecdote. But with an Arch- 
 deacon all this is changed. He is both of 
 Heaven and Earth. When we see him in the 
 pulpit we are pleased to think that we are with 
 the angels ; when we meet him in a ball-room 
 we are flattered to feel that the angels are with 
 us. When he is with us — though, of course, 
 he is not of us — he is yet exceedingly like us. 
 He may seem a little more venerable than he 
 is ; perhaps there may be about him a grand- 
 fatherly air that his years do not warrant ; he 
 may exact a "Sir" from us that is not given 
 to others of his worldly standing ; but there is 
 nevertheless that in his bright and kindly eye 
 — there is that in his side-long glance — which 
 by a charm of Nature transmutes homage into 
 familiar friendship, and respect into affection. 
 
 The character of Archdeacons, as clergymen, 
 I would not venture to touch upon. It is 
 proverbial that Archidiaconal functions are 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 33 
 
 Eleusinian in their mysteriousness. No one, 
 except an Archdeacon, pretends to know what 
 the duties of an Archdeacon are ; so no one 
 can say whether these duties are performed 
 perfunctorily and inadequately, or scrupulously 
 and successfully. We know that Archdeacons 
 sometimes preach, and that is about all we 
 know. 1 know an Archdeacon in India who 
 can preach a good sermon — I have heard him 
 preach it many a time, once on a benefit night 
 for the Additional Clergy Society. It wrung 
 four annas from me — but it was a terrible 
 wrench. I would not go through it again to 
 have every living graduate of St. Bees and 
 Durham disgorged on our coral strand. 
 
 From my saying this do not suppose that 
 I am Mr. Whitley Stokes, or Babu Keshab 
 Chandra Sen. I am a Churchman, beneath 
 the surface, though a pellicle of inquiry may 
 have supervened. I am not with the party of 
 the Bishop, nor yet am I with Sir J. S., or Sir 
 A. C. I abide in the Limbo of Vanity, as a 
 temporary arrangement, to study the seamy 
 side of Indian politics and morality, to exa- 
 mine misbegotten wars and reforms with the 
 
 8 
 
84 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 scalpel, Stars of India with the spectroscope, and 
 to enjoy the society of half-a-dozen amusing 
 people to whom the Empire of India is hut as 
 a wheel of fortune. 
 
 I like the recognised relations between the 
 Archdeacon and women. They are more than 
 avuncular and less than cousinly ; they are 
 tender without being romantic, and confiding 
 without being burdensome. He has the private 
 entree at chhoti hazri, or early breakfast ; he 
 sees loose and flowing robes that are only for 
 esoteric disciples ; he has the private entree 
 at ^\e o'clock tea, and hears plans for the 
 evening campaign openly discussed. He is 
 quite behind the scenes. He hears the earliest 
 whispers of engagements and flirtations. He 
 can give a stone to the Press Commissioner in 
 the gossip handicap, and win in a canter. You 
 cannot tell him anything he does not know 
 already. 
 
 Whenever the Government of India has a 
 merrymaking, he is out on the trail. At Delhi 
 he was in the thick of the mummery, beaming 
 on barbaric princes and paynim princesses, 
 blessing banners, blessing trumpeters, blessing 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA, 85 
 
 proclamations, blessing champagne and truffles, 
 blessing pretty girls, and blessing the conjunc- 
 tion of planets that had placed his lines in such 
 pleasant places. His tight little cob, his 
 perfect riding kit, his flowing beard, and his 
 pleasant smile were the admiration of all the 
 Begums and Nabobs that had come to the fair. 
 The Government of India took such delight 
 in him that they gave him a gold medal and 
 a book. 
 
 With the inferior clergy the Archdeacon is 
 not at his ease. He cannot respect the little 
 ginger-bread gods of doctrine they make for 
 themselves ; he cannot worship at their hill 
 altars ; their hocus-pocus and their crystallised 
 phraseology fall dissonantly on his ear ; their 
 talk of chasubles and stoles, eastern attitude, 
 and all the rest of it, is to him as a tale told 
 by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying 
 nothing. He would like to see the clergy 
 merely scholars and men of sense set apart for 
 the conduct of divine worship and the encour- 
 agement of all good and kindly offices to their 
 neighbours ; he does not wish to see them 
 mediums and conjurers. He thinks that in a 
 
 8 * 
 
86 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 heathen country tbeir paltry fetishism and in- 
 comprehensible technicalities are peculiarly 
 offensive and injurious to the interests of 
 civilisation and Christianity. Of course the 
 Archdeacon may be very much mistaken in all 
 this ; and it is this generous consciousness of 
 fallibility which gives the singular charm to his 
 religious attitude. He can take off his eccle- 
 siastical spectacles and perceive that he may be 
 in the wrong like other men. 
 
 Let us take a last look at the Archdeacon, 
 for in the whole range of prominent Anglo- 
 Indian characters our eye will not rest upon 
 # more orbicular and satisfactory figure. 
 
 44 A good Archdeacon, nobly planned 
 To warn, to comfort, and command ; 
 And yet a spirit gay and bright, 
 With something of the candle-light,* 
 
No. V. 
 
 THE SECRETARY TO 
 GOVERNMENT. 
 
No. V. 
 
 THE SECRETARY TO GOVERN- 
 MENT. 
 
 He is clever, I am told ; and being clever he 
 has to be rather morose in manner and care- 
 less in dress, or people might forget that he 
 was clever. He has always been clever. He 
 was the clever man of his year. He was so 
 clever when he first came out that he could 
 never learn to ride, or speak the Indian lan- 
 guage, and had to be translated to the Provincial 
 Secretariat. But though he could never speak 
 an intelligible sentence in the vernacular, he 
 
40 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 had such a practical and useful knowledge of it, 
 in half-a-dozen of its dialects, that he could 
 pass examinations in it with the highest credit, 
 netting immense rewards. He thus became 
 not only more and more clever, but more and 
 more solvent ; until he was an object of wonder 
 to his contemporaries, of admiration to the 
 Lieutenant-Governor, and of desire to several 
 Barri Mem Sahibs with daughters. It was about 
 this time that he is supposed to have written 
 an article published in some English period- 
 ical. It was said to be an article of a solemn 
 description; and report magnified the periodical 
 into the Quarterly Review. So he became one 
 who wrote for the English Press. It was felt 
 that he was a man of letters ; it was assumed 
 that he was on terms of familiar correspon- 
 dence with all the chief literary men of the 
 day. With so conspicuous a reputation, he 
 believed it necessary to do something in 
 religion. So he gave up religion, and allowed 
 it to be understood that he was a man of 
 advanced views ; a Positivist, a Buddhist, or 
 something equally occult. Thus he became 
 ripe for the highest employment, and was 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 41 
 
 placed successively on a number of Special 
 Commissions. He inquired into everything ; 
 he wrote hundredweights of reports ; he proved 
 himself to have the true paralytic ink flux, 
 precisely the kind of wordy discharge, or brain 
 hemorrhage, required of a high official in 
 India. He would write ten pages where a clod- 
 hopping collector would write a sentence. He 
 could say the same thing over and over again 
 in a hundred different ways. The feeble forms 
 of official satire were at his command. He 
 desired exceedingly to be thought supercilious, 
 and he thus became almost necessary to the 
 Government of India, was canonised, and 
 caught up to Simla. The Indian papers 
 chanted little anthems, " the Services '' said 
 " Amen," and the apotheosis was felt to be a 
 success. On reaching Simla he was found ta 
 be familiar with the two local "jokes," planted 
 many years ago by some jackass. One of 
 these "jokes" is about everything in India 
 having its peculiar smell, except a flower ; the 
 second is some inanity about the Indian Go- 
 vernment being a despotism of despatch-boxes 
 tempered by the loss of the keys. He often 
 
42 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 emitted these mournful "jokes" until he 
 was declared to be an acquisition to Simla 
 society. 
 
 Such is the man I am with to-day. His 
 house is beautifully situated, overlooking a 
 deep ravine, full of noble pine-trees ; and it is 
 surrounded by rhododendrons. The verandah 
 is gay with geraniums and tall servants in 
 Imperial red deeply encrusted with gold. 
 Within, all is very respectable and nice, only 
 the man is — not exactly vile, but certainly im- 
 perfect in a somewhat conspicuous degree. 
 With the more attractive forms of sin he 
 has no true sympathy. I can strike no con- 
 cord with him on this umbrageous side of 
 nature. I am seriously shocked to discover 
 this, for he affects infirmity ; but his humanity 
 is weak. In his character I perceive the 
 perfect animal outline, but the colour is 
 wanting; the glorious sunshine, the profound 
 glooms of humanity are not there. 
 
 Such a man is dangerous ; he decoys you 
 into confidences. Even Satan cannot respect 
 a sinner of this complexion, — a sinner who is 
 only fascinated by the sinfulness of sin. As 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 48 
 
 for my poor host, I can see that he has never 
 really graduated in sin at all ; he has only 
 sought the degree of sinner honoris causa. I 
 am sure that he never had enough true vitality 
 or enterprise to sin as a man ought to sin, if 
 he does sin. When I speak of sin I will be 
 understood to mean the venial offences of 
 prevarication t and sleeping in church. I am 
 not thinking of sheep-stealing or highway 
 robbery. 
 
 My clever friend's work consists chiefly in 
 reducing files of correspondence on a particular 
 subject to one or two leading thoughts. Upon 
 these he casts the colour of his own opinions, 
 and submits the subjective product to the Secre- 
 tary, or Member of Council, above him for final 
 orders. His mind is one of the many refractive 
 mediums through which Government looks out 
 upon India. 
 
 From time to time he is called upon to 
 write a minute, or a note, on some given sub- 
 ject, and then it is that his thoughts and words 
 expand freely. He feels bound to cover an 
 area of paper proportionate to his own opinion 
 of his own importance ; he feels bound to intro- 
 
44 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 duce a certain seasoning of foreign words and 
 phrases ; and he feels bound to create, if the 
 occasion seems in any degree to warrant it, one 
 of those cock-eyed, limping, stammering epi- 
 grams which belong exclusively to the official 
 humour of Simla. I have said that the Secre- 
 tary is clever, scornful, jocose, imperfectly sinful, 
 and nimble with his pen. I shall only add that 
 he has succeeded in catching the tone of the 
 Imperial Bumbledom. 
 
 This tone is an affectation of aesthetic and 
 literary sympathies, combined with a cynical 
 disdain of everything Indian and Anglo-Indian. 
 The flotsam and jetsam of advanced European 
 thought are eagerly sought and treasured up. 
 " The New Republic " is on every drawing- 
 room table. One must speak of nothing but 
 the latest doings at the Gaiety, the pictures 
 of the last Academy, the ripest outcome of 
 scepticism in the Nineteenth Century, or the 
 aftermath in the Fortnightly. If I were to 
 talk to our Secretariat man about the 
 harvest prospects of the Deckan, the beauty 
 of the Himalayan scenery, or the book 1 have 
 just published in Calcutta about the Rent 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 45 
 
 Law, he would stare at me with feigned surprise 
 and horror. 
 
 " When he thinks of his own native land 
 In a moment he seems to be there 
 But, alas ! Ali Baba at hand 
 
 Soon hurries him back to despair. 
 
.No. VI. 
 
 H.E. THE BENGALI BABOO 
 
49 
 
 No. VI. 
 H.E. THE BENGALI BABOO, 
 
 The ascidian that got itself evolved into 
 Bengali Baboos must have seized the first 
 moment of consciousness and thought to 
 regret the step it had taken ; for however 
 much we may desire to diffuse Babooism over 
 the Empire, we must all agree that the Baboo 
 itself is a subject for tears. 
 
 The other day, as I was strolling down the 
 Mall, whistling Beethoven's 9th Symphony, 
 I met the Bengali Baboo. It was returning 
 from office. I asked it if it had a soul. It 
 
 4 
 
so 
 
 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 replied that it had not ; but that some day it 
 hoped to pass the matriculation examination of 
 the Calcutta University. I whistled the opening 
 oars of one of Cheruhini's Kequiems, but I 
 saw no resurrection in its eye ; so I passed on. 
 
 When I was at Lhassa the Dalai Lama told 
 me that a virtuous cow-hippopotamus by me- 
 tempsychosis might, under unfavourable cir- 
 cumstances, become an undergraduate of the 
 Calcutta University, and that, when patent- 
 leather shoes and English supervened, the 
 thing was a Baboo. 
 
 I forget whether it was the Duke of Buck- 
 ingham, or Mr. Lethbridge, or General Scindia 
 — I always mix up these C.I.E.'s together in 
 my mind somehow — who told me that a 
 Bengali Baboo had never been known to 
 laugh, but only to giggle with clicking noises 
 like a crocodile. Now this is very telling 
 evidence ; because if a baboo does not laugh 
 at a CLE. he will laugh at nothing. The 
 faculty must be wanting. 
 
 When Lord Macaulay said that what the 
 milk was to the cocoa-nut, what beauty was 
 to the buffalo, and what scandal was to 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 51 
 
 woman, that Dr. Johnson's Dictionary was to 
 the Bengali Baboo, he unquestionably spoke 
 in terms of figurative exaggeration ; neverthe- 
 less a core of truth lies hidden in his remark. 
 It is by the Baboo's words you know the 
 Baboo. The true Baboo is full of words and 
 phrases — full of inappropriate words and phrases 
 lying about like dead men on a battle-field, in 
 heaps, to be carted away promiscuously, 
 without reference to kith or kin. You may 
 turn on a Baboo at any moment and be quite 
 sure that words, and phrases, and maxims, 
 and proverbs will come gurgling forth, with- 
 out reference to the subject or to the occasion, 
 to what has gone before, or to what will come 
 after. Perhaps it was with reference to this 
 independence, buoyancy, and extravagance of 
 language that Lord Lytton declared the 
 Bengali to be " the Irishman of India." 
 
 You know, dear Vanity, I whispered to you 
 before that the poor Baboo often suffers 
 from a slight aberration of speech which 
 prevents his articulating the truth — a kind of 
 moral lisp. Lord Lytton could not have been 
 alluding to this ; for it was only yesterday that 
 
 4. * 
 
52 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 I heard an Irishman speak the truth to Lord 
 Lytton about some little matter — I forget 
 what ; cotton duty, I think — and Lord Lytton 
 said, rather curtly, " Why, you have often 
 told me this before." So Lord Lytton must 
 be in the habit of hearing certain truths 
 from the Irish. 
 
 It was either Sir Andrew Clarke, Sir Alex- 
 ander Arbuthnot, or Sir Some-one-else, who 
 understands all about these things, that first 
 told me of the tendency to Baboo worship in 
 England at present. I immediately took 
 steps, when I heard of it, to capitalise my 
 pension and purchase gold mines in the 
 Wynaad and shares in the . Simla Bank. 
 (Colonel Peterson, of the Simla Fencibles, 
 supported me gallantly in this latter resolu- 
 tion.) The notion of so dreadful a form of 
 fetishism establishing itself in one's native 
 land is repugnant to the feelings even of those 
 who have been rendered callous to such 
 things by seats in the Bengal Legislative 
 Council. 
 
 Sir George Campbell took an interest in 
 the development of the Baboo, and the selec- 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 58 
 
 tion of the fittest for Government employ- 
 ment. He taught them in debating-clubs the 
 various modes of conducting irresponsible 
 parliamentary chatter; and he tried to en- 
 tourage pedestrianism and football to evolve 
 their legs and bring them into something like 
 harmony with their long pendant arms. You 
 can still see a few of Sir George's leggy Baboos 
 ooiled up in corners of lecture-rooms at Cal- 
 cutta. The Calcutta Cricket Club employs 
 one as permanent " leg.*' 
 
 It is the future of Baboodom I tremble for. 
 When they wax fat with new religions, music, 
 painting, Comedie Anglaise, scientific dis- 
 coveries, they may kick with those developed 
 legs of theirs, until we shall have to think 
 that they are something more than a joke, 
 more than a mere lusus natures t more than a 
 caricature moulded by the accretive and differ- 
 entiating impulses of the monad in a moment of 
 wanton playfulness. The fear is that their ten- 
 dencies may infect others. The patent-leather 
 shoes, the silk umbrellas, the ten-thousand 
 horse-power English words and phrases, and the 
 loose shadows of English thought, which are 
 
54 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 now so many Aunt Sallies for all the world to 
 fling a jeer at, might among other races pass 
 into dummy soldiers, and from dummy soldiers 
 into trampling, hope-bestirred crowds, and so 
 on, out of the province of Ali Baba and into 
 the columns of serious reflection. Mr. Words- 
 worth and his friends the Dakhani Brahmans 
 should consider how painful it would be, when 
 deprived of the consolations of religion, to be 
 solemnly repressed by the Pioneer — to be 
 placed under that steam-hammer which by the 
 descent of a paragraph can equally crack the 
 tiniest of jokes and the hardest of political 
 nuts, can suppress unauthorised inquiry and 
 crush disaffection. 
 
 At present the Baboo is merely a grotesque 
 Brocken shadow, but in the course of geo- 
 logical ages it might harden down into some- 
 thing palpable. It is this possibility that 
 leads Sir Ashly Eden to advise the Baboo to 
 revert to its original type. But it is not so easy 
 to become homogeneous after you have been 
 diluted with the physical sciences and stirred 
 about by Positivists and missionaries. "I 
 would I were a protoplastic monad ! " may 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 55 
 
 sound very rhythmical, poetical, and all that ; 
 but even for a Baboo the aspiration is not an 
 easy one to gratify. 
 
No. VII. 
 
 THE RAJA 
 
59 
 
 No. VII. 
 
 THE EAJA 
 
 Try not to laugh, Dear Vanity. I know you 
 don't mean anything by it ; but these Indian 
 kings are so sensitive. The other day I was 
 translating to a young Raja what Val Prinsep 
 had said about him in his u Purple India." 
 He had only said that he was a dissipated young 
 ass and as ugly as a baboon ; but the boy was 
 quite hurt and began to cry. I had to 
 send for the Political Agent to quiet him and 
 put him to sleep. When you consider the 
 matter philosophically there is nothing per se 
 
•60 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 ridiculous in a Raja. Take a hypothetical 
 •case: picture to yourself a Raja who does not 
 get drunk without some good reason, who is 
 not ostentatiously unfaithful to his five-and- 
 twenty queens and his five-and-twenty grand 
 duchesses, who does not festoon his thorax and 
 abdomen with curious cutlery and jewels, who 
 does not paint his face with red ochre, and 
 who sometimes takes a sidelong glance at his 
 affairs, and there is no reason why you should 
 not think of such a one as an Indian king. 
 India is not very fastidious ; so long as the 
 Government is satisfied, the people of India 
 do not much care what the Rajas are like. A 
 peasant proprietor said to Mr. Caird and me 
 the other day, " We are poor cultivators ; w r e 
 cannot afford to keep Rajas. The Rajas are 
 for the Lord Sahib." 
 
 The young Maharaja of Kuch Parwani 
 assures me that it is not considered the thing 
 for a Raja at the present day to govern. " A 
 really swell Raja amuses himself." One 
 hoards money, another plays at soldiering, a 
 third is horsey, a fourth is amorous, and a 
 fifth gets drunk; at least so Kuch Parwani 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 61 
 
 thinks. Please don't say that I told you this. 
 The Foreign Secretary knows what a high 
 opinion I have of the Rajas: indeed he often 
 employs me to whitewash them when they get 
 into scrapes. " A little playful, perhaps, but 
 no more loyal Prince in India ! " This is the 
 kind of thing I put into the Annual Adminis- 
 tration Reports of the Agencies, and I stick to 
 it. Playful no doubt, but a more loyal class 
 than the Rajas there is not in India. They 
 have built their houses of cards on the thin 
 crust of British Rule that now covers the 
 crater, and they are ever ready to pour a 
 pannikin of water into a crack to quench the 
 explosive forces rumbling below. 
 
 The amiable chief in whose house I am 
 staying to-day is exceedingly simple in his 
 habits. At an early hour he issues from the 
 zenana and joins two or three of his Thakores, 
 or barons, who are on duty at Court, in the 
 morning draught of opium. They sit in a 
 circle, and a servant in the centre goes round 
 and pours the kasumbha out of a brass bowl 
 and through a woollen cloth into their hands, 
 out of which they lap it up. Then a cardamum 
 
K)"A ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 to take away the acrid after-taste. One hums 
 drowsily two or three bars of an old-world 
 song; another clears his throat and spits; 
 the Chief yawns, and all snap their fingers, to 
 prevent evil spirits skipping into his throat ; 
 a late riser joins the circle, and his fellow- 
 courtiers give him tazim — that is, rise and 
 salaam ; a coarse jest or two, and the party 
 disperses. A crowd of servants swarm round 
 the Chief as he shuffles slowly away. Three 
 or four mace-bearers walk in front shouting, 
 u Umr, daulat ziyada ho." (May your age and 
 wealth increase.) A confidential servant con- 
 tinually leans forward and whispers in his ear; 
 another remains close at hand with a silver 
 tea-pot containing water and wrapped up in a 
 wet cloth to keep it cool ; a third constantly 
 whisks a yak's tail over the King's head; a 
 fourth carries my Lord's sword; a fifth his 
 handkerchief; and so on. Where is he going? 
 He dawdles up a narrow staircase, through a 
 dark corridor, down half a-dozen steep steps, 
 across a courtyard overgrown with weeds, up 
 another staircase, along another passage, and 
 so to a range of heavy quilted red screens that 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 63 
 
 conceal doors leading into the female pene- 
 tralia. Here we must leave him. Two 
 servants disappear behind the parda with 
 their master, the others promptly lie down 
 where they are, draw the sheets or blankets 
 which they have been wearing over their faces 
 and feet, and sleep. 
 
 About noon we see the King again. He is 
 dressed in white flowing robes with a heavy 
 carcanet of emeralds round his neck. His red 
 turban is tied with strings of seed-pearls and 
 set off with an aigrette springing from a diamond 
 brooch. He sits on the Koyal mattress, the 
 gdddi. A big bolster covered with green velvet 
 supports his back; his sword and shield are 
 gracefully disposed before him. At the corner 
 of the gdddi sits a little representation of himself 
 in miniature, complete even to the sword and 
 shield. This is his adopted son and heir. For 
 all the queens and all the grand duchesses are 
 childless, and a little kinsman had to be trans- 
 planted from a mud village among the corn- 
 fields to this dreamland palace to perpetuate 
 the line. On the corners of the carpet on which 
 the gdddi rests sit Thakores of the royal 
 
64 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 house, other Thakores sit below, right and 
 left, forming two parallel lines, dwindling into 
 Sardars, palace officers, and others of lower 
 rank as they recede from the gdddi. Behind 
 the Chief stand the servants with the emblems 
 of royalty — the peacock feathers, the fan, the 
 yak tail, and the umbrella (now furled). The 
 confidential servant is still whispering into the 
 ear of his master from time to time. This is 
 durbar. No one speaks, unless to exchange 
 a languid compliment with the Chief. Pre- 
 sently essence of roses and a compound of 
 areca nut and lime are circulated : then a huge 
 silver pipe is brought in, the Chief takes three 
 long pulls, the Thakores on the carpet each 
 take a pull, and the levee breaks up amid 
 profound salaams. After this — dinner, opium, 
 and sleep. 
 
 In the cool of the evening our King emerges 
 from the palace, and, riding on a prodigiously 
 fat white horse with pink points, proceeds to 
 the place of carousal. A long train of horse- 
 men follow him, and footmen run before with 
 guns in red flannel covers and silver maces, 
 shouting "Baja Maharaja salaamat," &c. 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 65 
 
 The horsemen immediately around him are 
 mounted on well-fed and richly-caparisoned 
 steeds, with all the bravery of cloth -of- gold, 
 yak tails, silver chains, and strings of shells ; 
 behind are troopers in a burlesque of English 
 uniform ; and altogether in the rear is a mob 
 of caitiffs on skeleton chargers, masquerading 
 in every degree of shabbiness and rags, down 
 to nakedness and a sword. The cavalcade 
 passes through the city. The inhabitants 
 pour out of every door and bend to the 
 ground. Red cloths and white veils flutter 
 at the casements overhead. You would hardly 
 think that the spectacle was one daily enjoyed 
 by the city. There is all the hurrying and 
 eagerness of novelty and curiosity. Here and 
 there a little shy crowd of women gather at 
 a door and salute the Chief with a loud, 
 shrill verse of discordant song. It is some 
 national song of the Chiefs ancestors and of 
 the old heroic days. The place of carousal is 
 a bare spot near a large and ancient well out 
 of which grows a vast pipal-tree. Hard by is 
 a little temple surmounted by a red flag on 
 a drooping bamboo. It is here that the Oangdr 
 
 5 
 
DO ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 and Dassahra solemnities are celebrated. 
 Arrived on the ground, the Eaja slowly 
 circles his horse; then, jerking the thorn-bit, 
 causes him to advance plunging and rearing, 
 but dropping first on the near foot and then 
 on the off foot with admirable precision ; and 
 finally, making the white monster, now in a 
 lather of sweat, rise up and walk a few steps on 
 his hind legs, the Kaja's performance concludes 
 amid many shouts of wonder and delight from 
 the smooth-tongued courtiers. The Thakores 
 and Sardars now exhibit their skill in the manige 
 until the shades of night fall, when torches 
 are brought, amid much salaaming, and the 
 cavalcade defiles, through the city, back to the 
 palace. Lights are twinkling from the higher 
 casements and reflected on the lake below ; the 
 gola slave-girls are singing plaintive songs ; 
 drum and conch answer from the open court- 
 yards. The palace is awake. The Kaja, we 
 will romantically presume, bounds lightly 
 from his horse, and dances gaily to the harem 
 to fling himself voluptuously into the luxurious 
 arms of one of the five- and- twenty queens, or 
 one of the five-and-twenty grand duchesses ; 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 67 
 
 and they stand for one delirious moment 
 wreathed in each other's embraces — 
 
 While soft there breathes 
 Through the cool casement, mingled with the sighs 
 Of moonlight flowers, music that seems to rise 
 From some still lake, so liquidly it rose, 
 And, as it swell'd again at each faint close, 
 The ear could track through all that maze of chords 
 And young sweet voices these impassioned words — 
 
 " Ho, you there ! fetch us a pint of gin ! and 
 look sharp, will you ! " 
 
 For who, in time, knows whither we may vent 
 
 The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores 
 
 This gain of our best glory shall be sent, 
 
 To enrich unknowing nations with our stores ! 
 
 What worlds in the yet unformed Orient 
 
 May come refined with accents that are ours ! 
 
 But, dear Vanity, I can see that you are 
 impatient of scenes whose luxuries steal, spite 
 of yourself, too deep into your soul ; besides, I 
 dread the effect of such warm situations on a 
 certain Zuleika to whom the note of Ali Bab a 
 is like the thrice- distilled strains of the bulbul 
 on Bendemeer's stream. So let us electrify 
 ourselves back to prose and propriety by 
 thinking of the Political Agent. Let us plunge 
 
 5 * 
 
68 ONE DAT IN INDIA. 
 
 into the cold waters of dreary reality by 
 oonjuring up a figure in tail-coat and gold 
 buttons dispensing justice while H.H. the 
 romantic and picturesque Kaja, G.C.S.L, 
 amuses himself. Yet we hear cries from the 
 gallery of "Vive M. le Eaja; vive la baga- 
 telle ! " 
 
 So say we, in faint echoes, defying the 
 anathemas of the Foreign Office. Do not 
 turn this beautiful temple of ancient days 
 into a mere mill for decrees and budgets ; but 
 sweep it and purify it, and render it a fitting 
 shrine for the homage and tribute of antique 
 loyalty — " that proud submission, that subor- 
 dination of the heart which kept alive, even 
 in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted 
 freedom. " With tail-coat and cocked-hat 
 government " the unbought grace of life, the 
 •cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly 
 sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone." 
 
No. VIII. 
 
 THE POLITICAL AGENT, 
 
 A MAN IN BUCKRAM. 
 
71 
 
 No. VIII. 
 THE POLITICAL AGENT, 
 
 A MAN IN BUCKRAM. 
 
 This is a most curious product of the Indian 
 bureaucracy. Nothing in all White Baboo- 
 dom is so wonderful as the Political Agent. 
 A near relation of the Empress who was 
 travelling a good deal about India some three 
 or four years ago said that he would rather 
 get a Political Agent, with raja, chuprassies, 
 and everything complete, to take home, than 
 the unfigured " mum " of Beluchistan, or the 
 sea-aye-ee mocking bird, Kokiolliensis Lyt- 
 
72 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 tonia. But the Political Agent cannot be 
 taken home. The purple bloom fades in the 
 scornful climate of England ; the paralytic 
 swagger passes into sheer imbecility; the 
 thirteen-gun tall-talk reverberates in jeering 
 echoes ; the chuprassies are only so many 
 black men, and the raja is felt to be a joke. 
 The Political Agent cannot live beyond Aden. 
 
 The Government of India keeps its Political 
 Agents scattered over the native states in 
 small jungle stations. It furnishes them with 
 maharajas, nawabs, rajas, and chuprassies, 
 according to their rank, and it usually throws 
 in a house, a gaol, a doctor, a volume of 
 Aitchison's Treaties, an escort of native 
 Cavalry, a Star of India, an assistant, the 
 powers of a first-class magistrate, a flag-staff, 
 six camels, three tents, and a salute of eleven 
 or thirteen guns. In very many cases the 
 Government of India nominates a Political 
 Agent to the rank of Son-to-a-Lieut.-Gover- 
 nor, Son-in-Law-to-a-Lieut.-Governor, Son- 
 to-a-Member-of-Council, or Son to-an-Agent- 
 to-the-Governor- General. Those who are thus 
 elevated to the Anglo-Indian peerage need 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 7$ 
 
 have no thought for the morrow, what they 
 shall do, what they shall say, or wherewithal 
 they shall he supplied with a knowledge of 
 oriental language and occidental law. Nature 
 clothes them with increasing quantities of gold 
 lace and starry ornaments, and that charming, 
 if unblushing, female — Lord Lytton begs me 
 to write " maid " — Miss Anglo-Indian Pro- 
 motion, goes skipping about among them like 
 a joyful kangaroo. 
 
 The Politicals are a Greek chorus in our 
 popular burlesque, " Empire." The Foreign 
 Secretary is the prompter. The company is 
 composed of nawabs and rajahs (with the 
 Duke of Buckingham as a " super"). Lord 
 Meredith is the scene- shifter ; Sir John, the 
 manager. The Secretary of State, with his 
 council, is in the stage-box ; the House of 
 Commons in the stalls ; the London Press in 
 the gallery ; the East Indian Association, 
 Exeter Hall, Professor Fawcett, Mr. Hynd- 
 man, and the criminal classes generally, in 
 the pit; while those naughty little Scotch 
 boys, the shock-headed Duke and Monty Duff, 
 who once tried to turn down the lights, per- 
 
74 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 vade the house with a policeman on their 
 horizon. As we enter the theatre a dozen 
 chiefs are dancing in the ballet to express their 
 joy at the termination of the Afghan War. 
 The political choreuta are clapping their 
 hands, encouraging them by name and point- 
 ing them out to the gallery. 
 
 The government of a native state by clerks 
 and chuprassies, with a beautiful faineant 
 Political Agent for Sundays and Hindu festi- 
 vals, is, I am told, a thing of the past. 
 Colonel Henderson, the imperial " Peeler," 
 tells me so, and he ought to know, for he is 
 a kind of demi-official superintendent of 
 Thugs and Agents. Nowadays, my informant 
 assures me, the Political Agents undergo a 
 regular training in a Madras Cavalry Regiment, 
 or in the Central India Horse, or on the 
 Viceroy's Staff, and if they have to take 
 charge of a Mahratta State they are obliged 
 to pass an examination in classical Persian 
 poetry. This is as it ought to be. The intri- 
 cacies of Oriental intrigue and the manifold 
 complication of tenure and revenue that 
 entangle administrative procedure in the pro- 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 75 
 
 tected principalities, will unravel themselves 
 in presence of men who have enjoyed such 
 advantages. 
 
 When I first came out to this country I was 
 placed in charge of three degrees of latitude 
 and eight of longitude in Kajputana that I 
 might learn the language. The soil was 
 sandy, the tenure feudal (zabardast, as we 
 call it in India), and the Raja a lunatic by 
 nature and a dipsomaniac by education. 
 He had been educated by his grandmamma 
 and the hereditary Minister. I found that 
 his grandmamma and the hereditary Minister 
 were most anxious to relieve me of the most 
 embarrassing details of Government, so I 
 handed them a copy of the Ten Command- 
 ments, underlining two that I thought might 
 be useful, and put them in charge. They 
 were old-fashioned in their methods — like Sir 
 Billy Jones ; but their results were admirable. 
 In two years the revenue was reduced from 
 ten to two lakhs of rupees, and the expenditure 
 proportionately increased. A bridge, a sum- 
 mer-house, and a school were built ; and I wrote 
 the longest " Administration Report" that 
 
76 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 has ever issued from the Zulmabad Residency, 
 When I left money was so cheap and lightly 
 regarded that I sold my old buggy horse for 
 two thousand rupees to grandmamma, with 
 many mutual expressions of good-will —through 
 a curtain — and I have not been paid to this 
 day. But since then the horse-market has been 
 ruined in the native states by these imperial 
 melas and durbars. A poor Political has no 
 chance against these Government-of-India 
 people, who come down with strings of three- 
 legged horses, and — no, I won't say they sell 
 them to the chiefs — I should be having a com- 
 mission of my khidmatgars sitting upon me, 
 like poor Har Sahai, who was beaten by 
 Mr. Saunders, and Malhar Rao Gaikwar, who 
 fancied his Resident was going to poison him. 
 
 I like to see a Political up at Simla wooing 
 that hoyden Promotion in her own sequestered 
 bower. It is good to see Hercules toiling at 
 the feet of Omphale. It is good to see Pistol 
 fed upon leeks by Under-Secretaries and 
 women. How simple he is ! How boyish he 
 can be, and yet how intense ! He will play 
 leap frog at Annandale ; he will paddle about 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 77 
 
 in the stream below the water-falls without 
 shoes and stockings ; but if you allude in 
 the most distant way to rajas or durbars, 
 he lets down his face a couple of holes and 
 talks like a weather prophet. He will be so 
 interesting that you can hardly bear it; so 
 interesting that you will feel sorry he is not 
 talking to the Governor- General up at Peter- 
 hoff. 
 
No. IX. 
 
 THE COLLECTOR 
 
81 
 
 No. IX. 
 
 THE COLLECTOR. 
 
 Was it not the Bishop of Bombay who said 
 that man was an automaton plus the mirror 
 of consciousness ? The Government of every 
 Indian province is an automaton plus the 
 mirror of consciousness. The Secretariat is 
 consciousness, and the Collectors form the 
 automaton. The Collector works, and the 
 Secretariat observes and registers. 
 
 To the people of India the Collector is the- 
 Imperial Government. He watches over their 
 welfare in the many facets which reflect our civil- 
 isation. He establishes schools, dispensaries, 
 
 6 
 
i» ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 gaols, and courts of justice. He levies the 
 rent of their fieids, he fixes the tariff, and he 
 nominates to every appointment, from that of 
 road-sweeper, or constable, to the great blood- 
 sucking offices round the Court and Treasury. 
 As for Boards of Kevenue and Lieutenant- 
 Governors who occasionally come sweeping 
 across the country, with their locust hosts of 
 servants and petty officials, they are hut an 
 occasional nightmare ; while the Governor- 
 General is a mere shadow in the background 
 of thought, half blended with " John Company 
 Bahadur " and other myths of the dawn. 
 
 The Collector lives in a long rambling bun- 
 galow furnished with folding chairs and tables, 
 and in every way marked by the provisional 
 arrangements of camp life. He seems to have 
 just arrived from out of the firmament of 
 green fields and mango groves that encircles 
 the little station where he lives ; or he seems 
 just about to pass away into it again. The 
 shooting-howdahs are lying in the verandah, 
 the elephant of a neighbouring landholder is 
 swinging his hind foot to and fro under a tree, 
 or switching up straw and leaves on to his 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 83 
 
 back, a dozen camels are lying down in a 
 circle making bubbling noises, and tents are 
 pitched here and there to dry, like so many 
 white wings on which the whole establishment is 
 about to rise and fly away — fly away into " the 
 district," which is the correct expression for the 
 vast expanse of level plain melting into blue 
 sky on the wide horizon- circle around. 
 
 The Collector is a bustling man. He is 
 always in a hurry. His multitudinous duties 
 succeed one another so fast that one is never 
 ended before the next begins. A mysterious 
 thing called " the Joint " comes gleaning after 
 him, I believe, and completes the inchoate work. 
 
 The verandah is full of fat black men in 
 clean linen waiting for interviews. They are 
 bankers, shopkeepers, and landowners, who 
 have only come to " pay their respects," with 
 ever so little a petition as a corollary. The 
 chuprassie-vultures hover about them. Each 
 of these obscene fowls has received a gratifica- 
 tion from each of the clean fat men ; else the 
 clean fat men would not be in the verandah. 
 This import tax is a wholesome restraint upon 
 the excessive visiting tendencies of wealthy 
 
 6 * 
 
84 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 men of colour. Brass dishes filled with pista- 
 chio nuts and candied sugar are ostentatiously 
 displayed here and there ; they are the oblations 
 of the would-be visitors. The English calL 
 these offerings " dollies " ; the natives ddli. 
 They represent in the profuse East the visiting 
 cards of the meagre West. 
 
 Although from our lofty point of observation,, 
 among the pine-trees, the Collector seems to 
 be of the smallest social calibre, a mere 
 carronade, not to be distinguished by any 
 proper name ; in his own district he is a 
 Woolwich Infant ; and a little community of 
 microscopicals, — doctors, engineers, inspectors 
 of schools, and assistant magistrates, look up to 
 him as to a magnate. 
 
 They tell little stories of his weaknesses and 
 eccentricities, and his wife is considered a 
 person entitled " to give herself airs " (within 
 the district) if she feels so disposed ; while to 
 their high dinners is allowed the use of cham- 
 pagne and " Europe" talk on aesthetic subjects. 
 The Collector is not, however, permitted to 
 wear a chimney-pot hat and gloves on Sunday 
 (unless he has been in the Provincial Secre- 
 
ONE DAT IN INDIA. 85 
 
 tariat as a boy) ; a Terai hat is sufficient for a 
 Collector. 
 
 A Collector is usually a sportsman ; when he 
 is a poet, a co-respondent, or a neologist it is 
 thought rather a pity ; and he is spoken of in 
 undertones. Neology is considered especially 
 reprehensible. The junior member of the 
 Board of Revenue, or even the commissioner 
 of a division (if he be pakka), may question the 
 literal inspiration of Genesis; but it is not 
 good form for a Collector to tamper with his 
 Bible. A Collector should have no leisure for 
 opinions of any sort. 
 
 I have said that a Collector is usually a 
 sportsman. In this capacity he is frequently 
 made use of by the Viceroy and 'long-shore 
 Governors, as he is an adept at showing sport 
 to globe-trotters. The villagers who live on 
 the borders of the jungle will generally turn out 
 and beat for the Collector ; and the petty chief 
 who owns the jungle always keeps a tiger or 
 two for district officers. A Political Agent's 
 tiger is known to be a domestic animal suitable 
 for delicate noble lords travelling for health; 
 but a Collector's tiger is often a wild beast, 
 
86 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 although reared upon buffalo calves and accus- 
 tomed to be driven. The Collector, who is 
 always the most unselfish and hospitable of men, 
 only kills the fatted tiger for persons of distinc- 
 tion with letters of introduction. Any common 
 jungle tiger, even a man-eater, is good enough 
 for himself and his friends. 
 
 The Collector never ventures to approach 
 Simla, when on leave. At Simla people would 
 stare and raise their eye -brows if they heard 
 that a Collector was on the hill. They would 
 ask what sort of a thing a Collector was. 
 The Press Commissioner would be sent to 
 interview it. The children at Peterhoif would 
 send for it to play with. So the clodhopping 
 Collector goes to Naini Tal or Darjiling, 
 where he is known either as Ellenborough 
 Higgins, or Higgins of Gharibpur, in territorial 
 fashion. Here he is understood. Here he 
 can babble of his Bandobast, his Balbacha and 
 his Bawarchikhana ; and here he can speak in 
 familiar accents of his neighbours, Dalhousie 
 Smith and Cornwallis Jones. All day long he 
 strides up and down the club verandah with his 
 old Haileybury chum, Teignmouth Tompkins ;.. 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 87 
 
 and they compare experiences of the hunting- 
 hold and office, and denounce in unmeasured 
 terms of Oriental vituperation the new sort 
 of civilian who moves about with the Penal 
 Code under his arm and measures his authority 
 by statute, clause, and section. 
 
 In England the Collector is to be found 
 riding at anchor in the Bandicoot Club. He 
 makes two or three hurried cruises to his 
 native village, where he finds himself half for- 
 gotten. This sours him. The climate seems 
 worse than of old, the means of locomotion at 
 his disposal are inconvenient and expensive ; he 
 yearns for the sunshine and elephants of Gharib- 
 pur ; and returns, an older and a quieter man. 
 
 The afternoon of life is throwing longer 
 shadows, the Acheron of promotion is gaping 
 before him ; he falls into a Commissionership ; 
 still deeper into an officiating seat on the Board 
 of Revenue. Facilis est decensus, etc. Nothing 
 will save him now ; transmigration has set in ; 
 the gates of Simla fly open ; it is all over. 
 Let us pray that his halo may fit him. 
 
No. X. 
 
 BABY IN PAKTIBUS, 
 
91 
 
 No. X. 
 BABY IN PARTIBUS. 
 
 The Empire has done less for Ad glo- Indian- 
 Babies than for any class of the great exile 
 community. Legislation provides them with 
 neither rattle nor coral, privilege leave nor 
 pension. Papa has a Kaja and Star of India 
 to play with ; Mamma the Warrant of Prece- 
 dence and the Hill Captains ; but Baby ha& 
 nothing — not even a missionary; Baby is 
 without the amusement of the meanest 
 cannibal. 
 
 Baby is debarred from the society of his 
 
92 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 •compatriots. His father is cramped and frozen 
 with the chill cares of office ; his mother is 
 deadened by the gloomy routine of economy 
 and fashion ; custom lies upon her with a 
 weight heavy as frost and deep almost as life ; 
 the fountains of natural fancy and mirth are 
 frozen over ; so Baby lisps his dawn paeans in 
 soft Oriental accents, wakening harmonious 
 echoes among those impulsive and impression- 
 able children of Nature who masque themselves 
 in the black slough of Bearers and Ayahs; and 
 Baby blubbers in Hindustani. 
 
 The Ayah and Bearer sit with Baby in the 
 verandah on a little carpet ; broken toys and 
 withered flowers lie around. They croon to 
 baby some old-world katabaukalesis ; while 
 beauty, born of murmuring sound, passes into 
 Baby's eyes. The squirrel sits chirruping 
 familiarly on the edge of the verandah with his 
 tail in the air and some uncracked pericarp in 
 'his uplifted hands, the kite circles aloft and 
 whistles a shrill and mournful note, the spar- 
 rows chatter, the crow clears his throat, the 
 minas scream discordantly, and Baby's soft, re- 
 ceptive nature thus absorbs an Indian language. 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 Very soon Baby will think from right to 
 left, and will lisp in the luxuriant bloom of 
 Oriental hyperbole. 
 
 In the evening Baby will go out for an 
 airing with the Bearer and Ayah, and while 
 they dawdle along the dusty road, or sit on. 
 kerb-stones and on culvert parapets, he will- 
 listen to the extensile tale of their simple 
 sorrows. He will hear, with a sigh, that the 
 profits of petty larceny are declining ; he 
 will be taught to regret the increasing in- 
 firmities of his Papa's temper ; and portraits 
 in sepia of his Mamma will be observed by 
 him to excite laughter mingled with dark 
 impulsive words. Thus there will pass into 
 Baby's eyes glances of suspicious questionings,. 
 " the blank misgivings of a creature moving 
 about in worlds not realised." 
 
 In the long summer days Baby will patter 
 listlessly about the darkened rooms accom- 
 panied by his suite, who carry a feeding bottle 
 — Maw's Patent Feeding Bottle — just as the 
 Sergeant- at- Anns carries the mace ; and, from 
 time to time, little Mister Speaker will 
 squat down on his dear little hams and take a 
 
D4 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 refreshing pull or two At breakfast and 
 luncheon little Mister Speaker will straggle 
 into the dining-room, and fond parents will 
 give him a tid-bit of many soft dainties, to be 
 washed down with brandy and water, beer, 
 sherry, or other alcoholic draught. On such 
 broken meals Baby is raised. 
 
 The little drawn face, etiolated and weary- 
 looking, recommends sleep ; but Baby is a bad 
 sleeper. The Bearer-in-waiting carries about 
 a small pillow all day long, and from time to 
 time Baby is applied to it. He frets and 
 cries, and they brood over him, humming some 
 plaintive Indian lullaby. Still he turns rest- 
 lessly and whimpers, though they pat him and 
 shampoo him, and call him fond names, and tell 
 him soothing stories of bulbuls and flowers and 
 woolly sheep. But Baby does not sleep, and 
 even Indian patience is exhausted. Both 
 Ayah and Bearer would like to slip away to 
 their mud houses at the other end of the com- 
 pound and have a pull at the fragrant hnqqa 
 and a gossip with the saices ; but while Sunny 
 Baba is at large, and might at any moment 
 make a raid on Mamma, who is dozing over a 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 95 
 
 novel on a spider-chair near the mouth of the 
 therniantidote, the Ayah and Bearer dare not 
 leave their charge. So Sunny Baba must 
 sleep, and the Bearer has in the folds of his 
 waist-cloth a little black fragment of the awful 
 sleep-compeller, and Baby is drugged into a 
 deep uneasy sleep of delirious, racking dreams. 
 
 Day by day baby grows paler, day by day 
 thinner, day by day a stranger light burns in 
 his bonny eyes. Weird thoughts sweep 
 through Baby's brain, weird questions startle 
 Mamma out of the golden languors in which 
 she is steeped, weird words frighten the gentle 
 Ayah as she fondles her darling. The current 
 of babble and laughter has almost ceased to 
 flow. Baby lies silent in the Ayah's lap 
 staring at the ceiling. He clasps a broken toy 
 with wasted fingers. His Bearer comes with 
 some old watchword of fun ; Baby smiles 
 faintly, but makes no response. The old man 
 takes him tenderly in his arms and carries 
 him to the verandah ; Baby's head falls heavily 
 on his shoulder. 
 
 The outer world lies dimly round Baby; 
 within, strange shadows are flitting by. The 
 
96 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 wee body is pressing heavily upon the spirit ;. 
 Baby is becoming conscious ,of the burthen. 
 He will be quiet for hours on his little cot ; he 
 does not sleep, but he dreams. Earth's joys 
 and lights are fast fading out of those resilient 
 eyes; Baby's spirit is waiting on the shores 
 of eternity, and already hears "the mighty 
 waters rolling evermore." 
 
 The broken toys are swept away into a 
 corner : a silence and fear have fallen upon the 
 household, black servants weep, their mis- 
 tress seeks refuge in headache and smelling- 
 salts : the hard father feels a strange, an irre- 
 pressible welling up of little memories. He 
 loves the golden-haired boy ; he hardly knew 
 it before. If he could only hear once more 
 the merry laugh, the chatter, and the shout- 
 ing ! But he cannot hear it any more ; he 
 will never hear his child's voice again. Baby 
 has passed into the far-away Thought- Worlds 
 Baby is now only a dream and a memory, only 
 the recollection of a music that is heard no 
 more. Baby has crossed that cloudy, storm- 
 driven bourn of speculation and fear whither 
 we are all tending. 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 97 
 
 " A few white bones upon a lonely sand, 
 A rotting corpse beneath the meadow grass, 
 That cannot hear the footsteps as they pass, 
 Memorial urns pressed by some foolish hand 
 Have been for all the goal of troublous fears, 
 Ah ! breaking hearts and faint eyes dim with tears, 
 And momentary hope by breezes fanned 
 To flame that ever fading falls again, 
 And leaves but blacker night and deeper pain, 
 Have been the mould of life in every land." 
 
 Baby is planted out for evermore in the 
 dank and weedy little cemetery that lies on the 
 outskirts of the station where he lived and 
 died. Those golden curls, those soft and 
 rounded limbs, and that laughing mouth, are 
 given up to darkness and the eternal hunger 
 of corruption. Through sunshine and rain, 
 through the long days of summer, through 
 the long nights of winter, for ever, for ever, 
 Baby lies silent and dreamless under that 
 waving grass. The bee will hum overhead for 
 evermore, and the swallow glance among the 
 cypress. The butterfly will flutter for ages 
 and ages among the rank flowers — Baby will 
 still lie there. Come away, come away, your 
 cheeks are pale, it cannot be, we cannot believe 
 it, we must not remember it ; other Baby 
 
 7 
 
98 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 voices will re-kindle our life and love, Baby's 
 toys will pass to other Baby hands. All will 
 change ; we will change. 
 
 11 Yet, darling, but come back to me, 
 Whatever change the years have wrought, 
 I find not yet one lonely thought 
 That cries against my wish for thee." 
 
No. XI. 
 
 THE RED CHUPRASSIE; 
 
 OR, THE CORRUPT LICTOR. 
 
101 
 
 No. XI. 
 ! THE EED CHUPEASSIE ; 
 
 The red chuprassie is our Colorado beetle, 
 our potato disease, our Home Ruler, our cup- 
 board skeleton, the little rift in our lute. The 
 red-coated chuprassie is a cancer in our 
 Administration. To be rid of it there is 
 hardly any surgical operation we would not 
 cheerfully undergo. You might extract the 
 
 * The chuprassies are official messengers, wearing 
 Imperial livery, who are attached to civil officers in 
 India. 
 
102 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 Bishop of Bombay, amputate the Governor of 
 Madras, put a seton in the pay and allowances 
 of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, and we 
 should smile. 
 
 The red chuprassie is ubiquitous ; he is in 
 the verandah of every official's house in India, 
 from that of the Governor-General downwards ; 
 he is in the portico of every Court of Justice, 
 every Treasury, every Public Office, every 
 Government School, every Government Dispen- 
 sary in the country. He walks behind the Col- 
 lector ; he follows the conservancy carts ; he 
 prowls about the candidate for employment ; he 
 hovers over the accused and accuser ; he haunts 
 the Kaja ; he infests the tax-payer. 
 
 He wears the Imperial livery ; he is to the 
 entire population of India the exponent of 
 British Kule ; he is the mother-in-law of liars, 
 the high-priest of extortioners, and the receiver- 
 general of bribes. 
 
 Through this refracting medium the people 
 of India see their rulers. The chuprassie 
 paints his master in colours drawn from his 
 own black heart. Every lie he tells, every 
 insinuation he throws out, every demand he 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 103 
 
 makes, is endorsed with his master's name. 
 He is the arch-slanderer of our name in India. 
 
 There is no city in India, no mofussil- 
 station, no little settlement of officials far-up 
 country, in which the chuprassie does not find 
 sworn brothers and confederates. The cut- 
 cherry clerks and the police are with him 
 everywhere; higher native officials are often 
 on his side. 
 
 He sits at the receipt of custom in the 
 Collector's verandah, and no native visitor 
 dare approach who has not conciliated him 
 with money. The candidate for employment, 
 educated in our schools, and pregnant with 
 words about purity, equality, justice, political 
 economy, and all the rest of it, addresses him 
 with joined hands as "Maharaj," and slips 
 silver into his itching palm. The successful 
 place-hunter pays him a feudal relief on 
 receiving office or promotion, and benevolences 
 flow in from all who have anything to hope or 
 fear from those in power. 
 
 In the Native States the chuprassie flourishes 
 rampantly. He receives a regular salary, 
 through their representatives or vakils at the 
 
104 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 agencies, from all the native chiefs round 
 about, and on all occasions of visits or return 
 visits, durbars, religious festivals, or public 
 ceremonials, he claims and receives preposte- 
 rous fees. The Eajas, whose dignity is always 
 exceedingly delicate, stand in great fear of 
 the chuprassies. They believe that on public 
 occasions the chuprassies have sometimes the 
 power of sicklying them o'er with the pale 
 cast of neglect. 
 
 English officers who have become de-Euro- 
 peanised from long residence among natives, 
 or by the frequent performance of petty cere- 
 monial duties of an Oriental hue, employ 
 chuprassies to aggrandise their importance. 
 They always figure on a background of red 
 chuprassies. Such officials are what Lord 
 Lytton calls " White Baboos." 
 
 A great Maharaja once told me that it was 
 the tyranny of the Government chuprassies 
 that made him take to drink. He spoke of 
 them as "the Pindarries of modern India." 
 He had a theory that the small pay we gave 
 them accounted for their evil courses. (A 
 chuprassie gets about eight pounds sterling a 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 105 
 
 year.) He added that if we saw a chuprassie 
 on seven rupees a month living overtly at the 
 rate of a thousand, we ought immediately to 
 appoint him an attache, or put him in gaol. 
 
 I make a simple rule in my own establish- 
 ment of dismissing a chuprassie as soon as he 
 begins to wax fat. A native cannot become 
 rich without waxing fat, because wealth is 
 primarily enjoyed by the mild Gen too as a 
 means of procuring greasy food in large 
 quantities. His secondary enjoyment is to 
 sit upon it. He digs a hole in the ground for 
 his rupees, and broods over them, like a great 
 obscene fowl. If you see a native sitting very 
 hard on the same place day after day, you 
 will find it worth your while to dig him 
 up. Shares in this are better than the 
 Madras gold mines. 
 
 In early Company days, when the Empire 
 was a baby, the European writers regarded 
 with a kindly eye those profuse Orientals who 
 went about bearing gifts ; but Lord Clive 
 closed this branch of the business, and it has 
 been taken up by our scarlet-runners, or 
 verandah parasites, in our name. Now, dear 
 
106 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 Vanity, you may call me a Russophile, or by 
 any other marine term of endearment you like, 
 if I don't think the old plan were the better 
 of the two. We ourselves could conduct 
 corruption decently ; but to be responsible for 
 corruption over which we exercise no control 
 is to lose the credit of a good name and the 
 profits of a bad one. 
 
 I hear that the Government of India pro- 
 poses to form a mixed committee of Rajas and 
 chuprassies to discuss the question as to 
 whether native chiefs ever give bribes and 
 native servants ever take them. It is expected 
 that a report favourable to Indian morality will 
 be the result. Of course Raja Joe Hookham 
 will preside. 
 
No. XII. 
 
 THE PLANTER; 
 
 A FARMER PRINCE. 
 
109 
 
 No. XII. 
 THE PLANTEE; 
 
 A FARMER PRINCE. 
 
 The Planter lives to-day as we all lived fifty 
 years ago. He lives in state and bounty, like 
 the Lord of Burleigh. He lives like that fine 
 old English gentleman who had an old estate, 
 and who kept up his old mansion at a bountiful 
 old rate. He lives in a grand wholesale man- 
 ner ; he lives in round numbers ; he lives like 
 a hero. Everything is Homeric about him. 
 He establishes himself firmly in the land with 
 great joy and plenty ; and he gathers round 
 
110 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 him all that makes life full- toned and har- 
 monious, from the grand timhre of draught-ale 
 and the organ-thunder of hunting, to the 
 piccolo and tmtinnabulum of Poker and maras- 
 chino. His life is a fresco -painting, on which 
 some Cyclopsean Raphaelite has poured his 
 rainbows from a fire-engine of a hundred- 
 elephant power. 
 
 We paltry officials lire meanly in pen-and- 
 ink sketches. Our little life is rounded by a 
 dream of promotion and pension. We toil, we 
 slave; we put by money, we pinch ourselves. 
 We are hardly fit to live in this beautiful 
 world, with its laughing girls and grapes, its 
 summer seas, its sunshine and flowers, its 
 Garnet Wolseleys and bulbuls. We go moping 
 through its glories in green spectacles, befoul- 
 ing it with our loathsome statistics and reports. 
 The sweet air of heaven, the blue firmament, 
 and the everlasting hills do not satisfy our 
 poisoned hearts ; so we make to ourselves a 
 little tin-pot world of blotted-paper, debased 
 rupees, graded lists, and tinsel honours ; we 
 try to feed our lungs on its typhoidal effluvia. 
 Aroint thee, Comptroller and Accountant- 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. Ill 
 
 General, with all thy griesly crew ! Thou art 
 worse than the blind Fury with the abhorred 
 shears ; for thou slittest my thin-spun-pay 
 wearing spectacles, thrice branded varlet ! 
 
 Dear Vanity, of course you understand that 
 I do not allude to the amiable old gentleman 
 who controls our Accounts Department, who 
 is the mirror of tenderness. The person I 
 would impale is a creation of my own wrath, 
 a mere official type struck in frenzied fancy. 
 
 Let us soothe ourselves by contemplating 
 the Planter and his generous, simple life. It 
 calms one to look at him. He is something 
 placid, strong, and easeful. Without wishing 
 to appear obsequious, I always feel disposed to 
 borrow money when I meet a substantial 
 Planter. He inspires confidence. I grasp his 
 strong hand ; I take him (figuratively) to my 
 heart, while the desire to bank with him wells 
 up mysteriously in my bosom. 
 
 He lives in a grand old bungalow, sur- 
 rounded by ancient trees. Large rooms open 
 upon one another on every side in long vistas ; 
 a broad and hospitable-looking verandah girds 
 all. Everywhere trophies of the chase meet 
 
112 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 the eye. We walk upon cool matting; we 
 recline upon long- armed chairs ; low and heavy 
 punkahs swing overhead ; a sweet breathing of 
 wet khaskhas grass comes sobbing out of the 
 thermantidote ; and a gigantic, but gentle, 
 khidmatgar is always at our elbow with long 
 glasses on a silver tray. This man's name is 
 Nubby Bux, but he means nothing by it, and 
 & child might play with him. I often say to 
 him in a caressing tone " Peg lao " ; and he is 
 grateful for any little attention of this sort. 
 
 It is near noon. My friend Mr. Great- 
 Heart, familiarly known as " Jamie Mac- 
 donald," has been taking me over the factory 
 and stables. We have been out since early 
 morning on the jumpiest and beaniest of 
 Waler mares. I am not killed, but a good 
 deal shaken. The glass trembles in my hand, 
 I have an absorbing thirst, and I drink 
 copiously, almost passionately. My out- 
 stretched legs are reposing on the arms of my 
 chair and 1 stiffen into an attitude of rest. I 
 hear my host splashing and singing in his 
 tub. 
 
 Breakfast is a meal conceived in a large 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 113 
 
 and liberal spirit. We pass from dish to dish 
 through all the compass of a banquet, the 
 diapason closing full in beer. Several joyful 
 assistants, whose appetites would take first- 
 class honours at any cattle show, join the hunt 
 and are well in at the beer. What tales are 
 told ! I feel glad that Mrs. Mary Somerville and 
 Dr. Watts are not present. I keep looking 
 round to see that no bishop comes into the 
 room. It is a comfort to me to think that 
 Bishop Heber is dead. I gave up blushing five 
 years ago when I entered the Secretariat; but 
 if at this moment Sir William Jones were to 
 enter, or Mr. Whitley Stokes with his child-like 
 heart and his Cymric vocabulary, I believe I 
 should be strangely affected. 
 
 The day welters on through drink and 
 billiards. In the afternoon more joyful 
 Planters drop in, and we play a rubber. From 
 whist to the polo ground, where I see the 
 merry men of Tirhoot play the best and 
 fastest game that the world can show. At 
 night high carousals and potations pottle deep. 
 Next morning sees the entire party in the 
 khadar of the river, mounted on Arabs, armed 
 
 8 
 
114 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 with spears, hunting Jamie Macdonald's Caly- 
 donian boar. These Scotchmen never forget 
 their nationality. 
 
 And while these joyful Planters are thus 
 rejoicing, the indigo is growing silently all 
 round. While they play, Nature works for 
 them. So does the patient black man; he 
 smokes his httqqa and keeps an eye on the 
 rising crop. 
 
 You will have learnt from Mr. Caird that 
 indigo grows in cakes (the ale is imported) ; to 
 his description of the process of manufacture 
 I can only add that the juice is generally 
 expressed in the vernacular. You give a cake 
 of the raw material to a coloured servant, you 
 stand over him to see that he doesn't eat it, 
 and your assistant canes him slowly as he 
 squeezes the juice into a blue bottle. Blue 
 pills are made of the refuse ; your female ser- 
 vants use aniline dyes ; and there you are. If 
 any one dies in any other way you can refuse 
 him the rites of cremation; fine him four annas; 
 and warn him not to do it again. This is a 
 burning question in Tirhoot and occasions 
 much litigation. 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 115 
 
 Jamie Macdonald has now a contract for 
 dyeing the hlue ribhons of the turf; Tommy 
 Begg has taken the blue boars and the Oxford 
 Blues; and Bobby Thomas does the blue- 
 books and the True Blues. It may not be 
 generally known that the aristocracy do not 
 employ aniline dyes for their blue blood. 
 The minor Planters do business chiefly in 
 blue stockings, blue bonnets, blue bottles, 
 blue beards, and blue coats.' For more in- 
 formation of this kind I can only refer 
 you to Mr. Caird and the Nineteenth Cen- 
 tury. 
 
 Some Planters grow tea, coffee, lac, mother- 
 of-pearl, pickles, poppadums and curry powder 
 — but now I am becoming encyclopaedic and 
 scientific, and trespassing on ground already 
 taken up by the Famine Commission. 
 
 Fewer Planters are killed now by the wild 
 camels who roam over the mango fields, but a 
 good deal of damage is still done to the prickly 
 pear trees. Mr. Cunningham has written 
 an interesting note on this. Rewards have 
 still to be offered for dead tigers and persons 
 who have died of starvation. " When the 
 
 8 * 
 
116 ONE DAY IN INDIA.. 
 
 Government will not give a doit to relieve a 
 lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a 
 dead Indian." 
 
No. XIII. 
 THE EUKASIAN; 
 
 A STUDY IN CHIARO-OSCURO. 
 
119 
 
 No. XIII. 
 
 THE EUEASIAN; 
 
 STUDY IN CHIARO-OSCURO. 
 
 The Anglo-Indian has a very fine eye for 
 colour. He will mark down " one anna in 
 the rupee " with unerring certainty ; he will 
 suspect smaller coin. He will tell you how he 
 can detect an adulterated European by his 
 knuckles, his nails, his eyebrows, his pronun- 
 ciation of the vowels, and his conception of 
 propriety in dress, manner, and conduct. 
 
 To the thoroughbred Anglo-Indian, whose 
 blood has distilled through Haileybury for 
 
120 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 three generations, and whose cousins to the 
 fourth degree are Collectors and Indian Army 
 Colonels, the Eurasian, however fair he may- 
 be, is a bete noir. Mrs. Ellenborough Higgins 
 is always setting, or pointing at black blood. 
 
 And sometimes the whitey-brown man is 
 objectionable. He isvain, apt to take offence, 
 sly, indolent, sensuous ; and, like Reuben, 
 "unstable as water." He has a facile smile, 
 a clammy hand, a manner either forward or 
 obsequious, a mincing gait, and not always 
 the snowiest linen. 
 
 Towards natives the Eurasian is cold, 
 haughty, and formal ; and this attitude is 
 repaid, with interest, in scorn and hatred. 
 There is no concealing the fact that to the 
 mild Gen too the Eurasian is a very distasteful 
 object. 
 
 But having said this, the case for the prose- 
 cution closes, and we may turn to the many 
 soft and gentle graces which the Eurasian 
 developes. 
 
 In all the relations of family life the 
 Eurasian is admirable. He is a dutiful son, 
 a circumspect husband, and an affectionate 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 121 
 
 father. He seldom runs through a fortune ; 
 he hardly ever elopes with a young lady of 
 fashion ; he is not in the habit of cutting off 
 his son with a shilling ; and he is an infre- 
 quent worshipper in that Temple of Separation 
 where Decrees Nisi sever the Gordian knots 
 of Hymen. 
 
 As a citizen he is zealously loyal. He will 
 speak at municipal meetings, write letters 
 about drainage and conservancy to the papers, 
 observe local holidays in his best clothes, and 
 attend funerals. 
 
 The Eurasian is a methodical and trust- 
 worthy clerk, and often occupies a position of 
 great trust and responsibility in our public 
 offices. He is not bold or original, like Sir 
 Andrew Clerk ; or amusing, like Mr. Stokes ; 
 but he does what work is given him to do 
 without overstepping the modesty of nature 
 
 The Eurasian girl is often pretty and grace- 
 ful ; and, if the solution of India in her veins 
 be weak, there is an unconventionally and 
 naivete sometimes which undoubtedly has a 
 
 charm ; and which, my dear friend, J. H , 
 
 of the 110th Clodhoppers (Lord Cardwell's 
 
122 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 Own Clodhoppers) never could resist : " What 
 though upon her lips there hung the accents of 
 the tchi-tchi tongue." 
 
 A good many Eurasians who are not clerks 
 in public offices, or telegraph signallers, or 
 merchants, are loafers. They are passed on 
 wherever they are found, to the next station, 
 and thus they are kept in healthy circulation 
 throughout India. They are all in search of 
 employment on the railway ; but as a pro- 
 visional arrangement, to meet the more imme- 
 diate and pressing exigencies of life, they will 
 accept a small gratuity. They are mainly 
 supported by municipalities, who keep them 
 in brandy, rice, and railway- tickets out of 
 funds raised for this purpose. Workhouses 
 and Malacca canes have still to be tried. 
 
 Bishop Gell's plan for colonising the Lacca- 
 dives and Cocos with these loafers has not 
 met with much acceptance at Simla. The 
 Home Secretary does not see from what Im- 
 perial fund they can be supplied with bathing 
 drawers and barrel organs; but the Home 
 Secretary ought to know that there is a philan- 
 thropic society at Lucknow of the disinterested, 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 128 
 
 romantic, Turnerelli type, ready to furnish 
 all the wants of a young colony, from under- 
 clothing to Eno's fruit salt. 
 
 A great many wise proposals emanate from 
 Simla as regards some artificial future for the 
 Eurasian. One Ten-thousand-pounder asks 
 Creation in a petulant tone of surprise why 
 Creation does not make the Eurasian a car- 
 penter; another looks round the windy hills 
 and wonders why somebody does not make 
 the Eurasian a high farmer. The shovel-hats 
 are surprised that the Eurasian does not 
 become a missionary, or a schoolmaster, or a 
 policeman, or something of that sort. The 
 native papers say, " Deport him " ; the white 
 prints say, " Make him a soldier"; and the 
 Eurasian himself says, " Make me a Commis- 
 sioner, or give me a pension." In the mean- 
 time, while nothing is being done, we can rail 
 at the Eurasian for not being as we are. 
 
 " Let us sit on the thrones 
 In a purple sublimity, 
 And grind down men's bones 
 To a pale unanimity." 
 
 There is no proper classification of the 
 
124 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 mixed race in India as there is in America. 
 The convenient term quadroon, for instance, 
 instead of " four annas in the rupee," is quite 
 unknown ; the consequence is that everyone 
 — from Anna Maria De Souza, the " Portu- 
 guese " cook, a nobleman on whose cheek the 
 best shoe-blacking would leave a white mark, 
 to pretty Miss Fitzalan Courtney, of the 
 Bombay Fencibles, who is as white as an 
 Italian princess — is called an " Eurasian." 
 
 Do you know, dear Vanity, that it is not 
 impossible that King Asoka (of the Edict 
 Pillars), the " Constantine of Buddhism," was 
 an Eurasian. I have not got the works of 
 Arrian, or Mr. Leithridge's " History of the 
 World " at hand, but I have some recollection 
 of Sandracottus, or one of Asoka's fathers 
 or grandfathers, marrying a Miss Megasthenes, 
 or Seleucus. With such memories, no wonder 
 they call us " Mean Whites." 
 
No. XIV. 
 
 THE VILLAGER. 
 
127 
 
 No. XIV. 
 THE VILLAGER. 
 
 " Venio nunc ad voluptates agricolarum, quibus 
 ego" (like the Famine Commissioners) " incredibiliter 
 delector." 
 
 I missed two people at the Delhi Assemblage 
 of 1877. All the gram-fed secretaries and 
 most of the alcoholic chiefs were there ; but 
 the famine-haunted villager and the delirium- 
 shattered, opium-eating Chinaman, who had 
 to pay the bill, were not present. 
 
 I cannot understand why Viceroys and 
 English newspapers call the Indian cultivator 
 
 " riot. " He never amounts to a riot if you 
 
128 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 treat him properly. He may be a disorderly 
 crowd sometimes ; but that is only when you 
 embody him in a police force or convert him 
 into cavalry. The atomic disembodied villager 
 has no notion of rioting, qa-ira singing, or any 
 of the tomfooleries of revolution. These 
 pastimes are for men who are both idle and 
 frivolous. When our villager wants to realise 
 a political idea, he dies of famine. This has 
 about it a certain air of seriousness. A man 
 will not die of famine unless he be in earnest. 
 
 Lord Bacon's apothegm was that Eating 
 maheth a full man ; and it would be better to 
 give the starving cultivator Bacon than the 
 report of that Commission (which we cannot 
 name without tears and laughter) which goes 
 to work on the assumption that writing makeih 
 a full man — that to write over a certain area 
 of paper will fill the collapsed cuticles of the 
 agricultural class throughout India. 
 
 When the idea of holding famines was first 
 started, I proposed to illustrate the project by 
 stopping the pay and allowances of the Go- 
 vernment of India for a month. But this did 
 not listen to my proposal. People seldom 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 129' 
 
 listen to my proposals ; and sometimes I think 
 that this accounts for my constitutional 
 melancholy. 
 
 You will ask, "What has all this talk of 
 food and famine to do with the villager ? " I 
 reply, " Everything." Famine is the horizon 
 of the Indian villager ; insufficient food is the 
 foreground. And this is the more extraor- 
 dinary since the villager is surrounded by a 
 dreamland of plenty. Everywhere you see 
 fields flooded deep with millet and wheat. 
 The village and its old trees have to climb on 
 to a knoll to keep their feet out of the glorious 
 poppy and the luscious sugar-cane. Sump- 
 tuous cream-coloured bullocks move sleepily 
 about with an air of luxurious sloth ; and sleek 
 Brahmans utter their lazy prayers while 
 bathing languidly in the water and sunshine 
 of the tank Even the buffaloes have nothing 
 to do, but float the livelong day deeply im- 
 mersed in the bulrushes. Everything is 
 steeped in repose. The bees murmur their 
 idylls among the flowers ; the doves moan 
 their amorous complaints from the shady leaf- 
 age of pipal trees; out of the cool recesses of 
 
 9 
 
130 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 wells the idle cooing of the pigeons ascends 
 into the summer-laden air ; the rainbow-fed 
 chameleon slumbers on the branch; the en- 
 amelled beetle on the leaf; the little fish in 
 the sparkling depths below ; the radiant king- 
 fisher, tremulous as sunlight, in mid- air ; and 
 the peacock, with furled glories, on the temple 
 tower of the silent gods. Amid this easeful 
 and luscious splendour the villager labours and 
 starves. 
 
 Reams of hiccoughing platitudes lodged in 
 the pigeon-holes of the Home Office by all 
 the gentlemen clerks and gentlemen farmers 
 of the world cannot mend this. While the 
 Indian villager has to maintain the glorious 
 phantasmagoria of an imperial policy, while 
 he has to support legions of scarlet soldiers, 
 golden chuprassies, purple politicals, and green 
 commissions, he must remain the hunger- 
 stricken, over driven phantom he is. 
 
 While the eagle of Thought rides the tempest in scorn, 
 Who cares if the lightning is burning the corn ? 
 
 If Old England is going to maintain her 
 throne and her swagger in our vast Orient 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 131 
 
 she ought to pay up like a — man, I was going 
 to say; for, according to the old Sanscrit 
 proverb, " You can get nothing for nothing, 
 and deuced little for a halfpenny." These 
 unpaid-for glories bring nothing but shame. 
 
 But even the poor Indian cultivator has 
 his joys beneath the clouds of Revenue Boards 
 and Famine Commissions. If we look closely 
 at his life we may see a soft glory resting upon 
 it. I am not Mr. Caird, and I do not intend 
 entering into the technical details of agricul- 
 ture — " Quid de utilitate loquar stercorandi ? " 
 — but I would say something of that sweetness 
 which a close communion with earth and 
 heaven must shed upon the silence of lonely 
 labour in the fields. God is ever with the 
 oultivator in all the manifold sights and sounds 
 of this marvellous world of His. In that 
 mysterious temple of the Dawn, in which we 
 of noisy mess-rooms, heated courts, and dusty 
 offices are infrequent worshippers, the peasant 
 is a priest. There he offers up his hopes and 
 fears for rain and sunshine ; there he listens to 
 the anthems of birds we rarely hear, and inter- 
 prets auguries that for us have little meaning. 
 
 9 * 
 
132 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 The beast of prey skulking back to his lahv 
 the stag quenching his thirst ere retiring to 
 the depths of the forest, the wedge of wild 
 fowl flying with trumpet notes to some distant 
 lake, the vulture hastening in heavy flight to 
 the carrion that night has provided, the crane 
 flapping to the shallows, and the jackal 
 shuffling along to his shelter in the nullah, 
 have each and all their portent to the initiated 
 eye. Day, with its fierce glories, brings the 
 throbbing silence of intense life, and under 
 flickering shade, amid the soft pulsations of 
 Nature, the cultivator lives his day-dream. 
 What there is of squalor, and drudgery, and 
 carking care in his life melts into a brief 
 oblivion, and he is a man in the presence of 
 his God with the holy stillness of Nature 
 brooding over him. With lengthening shadows 
 comes labour and a re- awaking. The air is 
 once more full of all sweet sounds, from the fine 
 whistle of the kite, sailing with supreme 
 dominion through the azure depths of air, to 
 the stir and buzzing chatter of little birds and 
 crickets among the leaves and grass. The 
 egret has resumed his fishing in the tank 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 138 
 
 where the rain is stored for the poppy and 
 sugar-cane fields, the sand-pipers bustle along 
 the margin, or wheel in little silvery clouds 
 over the bright waters, the gloomy cormorant 
 sits alert on the stump of a dead date-tree, 
 the busy black divers hurry in and out of the 
 weeds, and ever and anon shoot under the 
 water in hot quest of some tiny fish ; the whole 
 machinery of life and death is in full play, 
 and our villager shouts to his patient oxen 
 and lives his life. Then gradual darkness, 
 and food with homely joys, a little talk, a 
 little tobacco, a few sad songs, and kindly 
 sleep. 
 
 The villages are of immemorial antiquity ; 
 their names, their traditions, their hereditary 
 offices have come down out of the dim past 
 through countless generations. History sweeps 
 over them with her trampling armies and her 
 conquerors, her changing dynasties and her 
 shifting laws — sweeps over them and leaves 
 them unchanged. 
 
 The village is self-contained. It is a com- 
 plete organism, protoplastic it may be, with 
 the chlorophyll of age colouring its institu- 
 
184 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 tions, but none the less a perfect, living 
 entity. It has within itself everything that 
 its existence demands, and it has no am- 
 bition. The torment of frustrated hope and 
 of supersession is unknown in the village. We 
 who are always striving to roll our prospects 
 and our office boxes up the hill to Simla may 
 learn a lesson here : 
 
 Sisyphus in vita quoque nobis ante oculos est 
 
 Qui petere a populo fasces saevasque secures 
 
 Imbibit et semper victus tristisque recedit. 
 
 Nam petere imperium quod inanest nee datur umquam, 
 
 Atque in eo semper durum sufferre laborem, 
 
 Hoc est adverso nixantem trudere monte 
 
 Saxum quod tamen e summo jam vertice rusum 
 
 Yolvitur et plani raptim petit sequora campi. 
 
 In this idyllic existence, in which, as I have 
 said, there is no ambition, several other ills 
 are also wanting. There is, for instance, no 
 News in the village. The village is without 
 the pale of intelligence. This must indeed 
 be bliss. Just fancy, dear Vanity, a state of 
 existence in which there are no politics, no 
 discoveries, no travels, no speculations, no 
 Garnet Wolseleys, no Gladstones, no Captain 
 Careys, no Sarah Bernhardts ! If there be a 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 135 
 
 heaven upon earth, it is surely here. Here no 
 Press Commissioner sits on the hillside croak- 
 ing dreary translations from the St. Peters- 
 burg press ; here no Pioneer sings catches with 
 Sir John Strachey in Council. But here the 
 lark sings in heaven for evermore, the sweet 
 corn grows below, and the villager, amid the 
 quiet joys with which earth fills her lap, dreams. 
 his low life. 
 
No. XV. 
 
 THE OLD COLONEL. 
 
189 
 
 No. XV. 
 
 THE OLD COLONEL, 
 
 •' Kwaihaipeglaoandjeldikaro." — Rigviarole Veda. 
 
 The old Indian Colonel ripening for pension 
 on the shelf of General Duty is an object at 
 once pitiful and ludicrous. His profession 
 has ebbed away from him, and he lies a 
 melancholy derelict on the shore, with sails 
 flapping idly against the mast and meaningless 
 pennants streaming in the wind. 
 
 He has forgotten nearly everything he ever 
 learnt of military duty, and what he has not 
 forgotten has been changed. It is as much 
 
140 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 as he can do to keep up with the most ad- 
 vanced thoughts of the Horse Guards on 
 buttons and gold lace. Yet he is still em- 
 ployed sometimes to turn out a guard, or to 
 swear that " the Service is going," &c. ; and 
 though he has lost his nerve for riding, he 
 has still a good seat on a hoot-lace com- 
 mittee. 
 
 He is a very methodical old man. He rises 
 at an early hour, strolls down to the Club on 
 the Mall — perhaps the Wheler Club, perhaps 
 some other — has his tea, newspaper, and 
 gossip there ; and then back to his small bun- 
 galow. After breakfast he arrays himself for 
 the day in some nondescript white uniform, 
 and with a forage cap stuck gaily on one side 
 of his head, a cheroot in his mouth, and a 
 large white umbrella in his hand, he again 
 sallies forth to the Club. An old horse is led 
 behind him. 
 
 Now the serious business of life again 
 begins — to get through the day. There are 
 six newspapers to read, twelve pegs to drink, 
 four- and twenty Madras cheroots to smoke, 
 there is kindly tiffin to linger over, forty winks 
 
ONE DAT IN INDIA. 141 
 
 afterwards, a game of billiards, the band on 
 the Mall, dinner, and over all, incessant chatter,, 
 chatter, old scandal, old jokes, and old stories. 
 Everyone likes the old Colonel, of course. 
 Everyone says, "Here comes poor old Smith ; 
 what an infernal bore he is!" — "Hulloa, 
 Colonel, how are you ? glad to see you ! what's 
 the news ? how 's exchange ? " 
 
 The old Colonel is not avaricious, but he 
 saves money. He cannot help it. He has 
 no tastes and he draws very large pay. His 
 mind, therefore, broods over questions relating 
 to the investment of money, the depreciation 
 of silver, and the saving effected by purchasing 
 things at co-operative stores. He never really 
 solves any problem suggested by these topics. 
 His mind is not prehensile like the tail of the 
 Apollo Bundar ; everything eludes its grasp ; 
 so its pursuits are interminable. The old 
 Colonel's cerebral caloric burns with a feeble 
 flicker, like that of the Madras secretariats. 
 It never consumes a subject. The same 
 theme is always fresh fuel. You might say 
 the same thing to him every morning at the 
 same hour till the crack of doom, and he 
 
142 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 would never recollect that he had heard your 
 remark before. This certainly must give a 
 freshness to life and render eternity possible. 
 
 The old Colonel is not naturally an indolent 
 man, but the prominent fact about him is 
 that he has nothing to do. If you gave him a 
 sun-dial to take care of, or a rain-gauge to 
 watch, or a secret to keep, he would be quite 
 delighted. I once asked Smith to keep 
 a secret of mine, and the poor old fellow was 
 so much afraid of losing it that in a few hours 
 he had got everybody in the station helping 
 him to keep it. It always surprises me that 
 men with so much time on their hands do 
 not become Political Agents. 
 
 Sometimes our old Colonel gets into the 
 flagitious habit of writing for the newspapers. 
 He talks himself into thinking that he possesses 
 a grievance, so he puts together a fasciculus 
 of lop-sided sentences, gets the ideas set 
 straight by the Doctor, the spelling refur- 
 bished by the Padre, and fires off the product 
 to the Pioneer. Then days of feverish 
 excitement supervene, hope alternating with 
 iear. Will it appear ? Will the Commander- 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 143 
 
 in- Chief be offended ? Will the Government 
 of India be angry ? What will the Service 
 say? 
 
 The old Colonel is always rather suspicious 
 of the great cocked-hats at head-quarters. He 
 knows that to maintain an air of activity they 
 must still be changing something, or abolishing 
 something ; and he is always afraid that they 
 will change, or abolish him. But how could 
 they change the old Colonel ? In a regiment 
 he would be like Alice in Wonderland ; on the 
 Staff he would be like old wine in a new bottle. 
 They might make him a K.C.B., it is true; 
 but he does not belong to the Simla Band of 
 Hope, and stars must not be allowed to shoot 
 madly from their sphere. As to abolishing 
 the old Colonel, this too presents its difficulties, 
 for Sir Norman Henry and all the celebrated 
 cocked-hats at home and abroad look upon 
 the Indian Staff Corps as Pygmalion looked 
 on his Venus. They dote upon its lifeless 
 charms, and (figuratively) love to clasp it in their 
 foolish arms. 
 
 It is better to dress him up in an old red 
 coat, and strap him on to an old sword with 
 
144 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 a brass scabbard, that he may stand up on 
 high ceremonials and drink the health of the 
 good Queen for whom he has lived bravely 
 through sunshine and stormy weather, in defi- 
 ance of epidemics, retiring schemes, and the 
 Army Medical Department. It is good to 
 ask him to place his old knees under your 
 hospitable board, and to fill him with whole- 
 some wine, while he decants the mellow stories 
 of an Anglo-India that is speedily dissolving 
 from view. 
 
 The old Colonel has no harm in him ; his 
 scandal blows upon the grandmothers of 
 people that have passed away, and his little 
 improprieties are such as might illustrate a 
 sermon of the present day. 
 
 But you must never speak to him as if his 
 sun were setting. He is as hopeful as a two- 
 year-old. Every Gazette thrills him with vague 
 expectations and alarms. If he found himself 
 in orders for a Brigade he would be less sur- 
 prised than anyone in the Army. He never 
 ceases to hope that something may turn up — 
 that something tangible may issue from the 
 circumambient world of conjecture. But 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 145 
 
 nothing will ever turn up for our poor old 
 Colonel till his poor old toes turn up to the 
 daisies. This change only, which we harshly 
 •call " Death," will steal over his prospects I 
 this new slide only will be slipped into the 
 magic lantern of his existence, accompanied 
 by funeral drums and slow marching. 
 
 Soon we shall hardly be able to decipher his 
 name and age on the crumbling gravestone 
 among the weeds of our horrible station 
 cemetery — but what matters it ? 
 
 M For his bones are dust, 
 And his sword is rust, 
 And his soul is with the saints, we trust." 
 
 10 
 
No. XVI. 
 THE CIVIL SUKGEON. 
 
 10 
 
149 
 
 No. XVI. 
 
 THE CIVIL SUEGBON 
 
 Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it." 
 
 Perhaps you would hardly guess from his 
 appearance and ways that he was a surgeon 
 and a medicine-man. He certainly does not 
 smell of lavender or peppermint, or display 
 fine and curious linen, or tread softly like a 
 cat. Contrariwise. 
 
 He smells of tobacco, and wears flannel 
 underclothing. His step is heavy. He is a 
 gross, big, cow-buffalo sort of man, with a 
 
150 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 tangled growth of beard. His ranting voice 
 and loud familiar manner amount to an out- 
 rage. He laughs like a camel, with deep 
 bubbling noises. Thick corduroy breeches 
 and gaiters swaddle his shapeless legs, and he 
 rides a coarse-bred Waler mare. 
 
 I pray the gods that he may never be 
 required to operate upon my eyes, or intes- 
 tines, or any other delicate organ — that he 
 may never be required to trephine my skull, 
 or remove the roof of my mouth. 
 
 Of course he is a very good fellow. He 
 walks straight into your drawing-room with a 
 pipe in his mouth, bellowing out your name. 
 No servant announces his arrival. He 
 tramples in and crushes himself into a chair, 
 without removing his hat, or performing any 
 other high ceremonial. He has been riding in 
 the sun, and is in a state of profuse perspiration ; 
 you will have to bring him round with the 
 national beverage of Anglo-India, a brandy- 
 and-soda. 
 
 Now he will enter upon your ease. " Well, 
 you 're looking very blooming ; what the devil 
 is the matter with you? Eh? Eh? Want 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 151 
 
 a trip to the hills ? Eh ? Eh ? How is the 
 bay pony ? Eh ? Have you seen Smith's new 
 filly ? Eh ? " 
 
 This is very cheerful and reassuring if you 
 are a healthy man with some large conspicuous 
 disease — a broken rib, cholera, or toothache ; 
 but if you are a fine, delicately-made man, 
 pregnant with poetry as the egg of the night- 
 ingale is pregnant with music, and throbbing 
 with an exquisite nervous sensibility, perhaps 
 languishing under some vague and occult 
 disease, of which you are only conscious in 
 moments of intense introspection, this mode 
 of approaching the diagnosis is apt to give your 
 system a shock. 
 
 Otherwise it may be bracing, like the incle- 
 ment north wind. But, speaking for myself, 
 it has proved most ruinous and disastrous. 
 Since I have known the Doctor my constitu- 
 tion has broken up. I am a wreck. There 
 is hardly a single drug in the whole pharma- 
 copoeia that I can now take with any pleasure, 
 and I have entirely lost sight of a most inte- 
 resting and curious complaint. 
 
 You see, dear Vanity, that I don't mince 
 
152 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 matters. I take our Doctor as I find him,, 
 rough and allopathic ; but I am sure he might 
 be improved in course of two or three genera- 
 tions. We may leave this, however, to Nature 
 and the Army Medical Department. Reform 
 is not my business. I have no proposals to 
 offer that will accelerate the progress of the 
 Doctor towards a higher type. 
 
 Happily his surgical and medicinal functions 
 claim only a portion of his time. He is in 
 charge of the district gaol, a large and comfort- 
 able retreat for criminals. Here he is admirable. 
 To some eight or nine hundred murderers, 
 robbers, and inferior delinquents he plays- 
 the part of maitre d'hdtel with infinite success. 
 In the whole country side you will not find a 
 community so well bathed, dressed, exercised, 
 fed, and lodged as that over which the Doctor 
 presides. You observe on every face a quiet 
 Quakerish air of contentment. Every inmate 
 of the gaol seems to think that he has now 
 found a haven of rest. 
 
 If the sea-horse on the ocean 
 Own no dear domestic cave, 
 
 Yet he slumbers without motion 
 On the still and halcyon wave : 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 15$ 
 
 If on rainy days the loafer 
 Gamble when he cannot roam, 
 
 The police will help him so far 
 As to find him here a home. 
 
 This is indeed a quiet refuge for world-wearied 
 men ; a sanctuary undisturbed by the fears 
 of the weak or the passions of the strong. All 
 reasonable wants are gratified here ; nothing 
 is hoped for any more. The poor burglar 
 burdened with unsaleable " grab " and the 
 reproaches of a venal world sorrowfully seeks 
 an asylum here. He brings nothing in his 
 hand ; he seeks nothing but rest. He whis-. 
 pers through the key-hole — 
 
 " Nil cupientium 
 Nudus castra peto." 
 
 Look at this prisoner slumbering peacefully 
 beside his huqqa under the suggestive bottle 
 tree (there is something touching in his 
 selecting the shade of a bottle tree : Horace 
 clearly had no bottle tree ; or he would never 
 have lain under a strawberry (and cream) 
 tree). You can see that he has been softly 
 nurtured. What a sleek, sturdy fellow he is i 
 He is a covenanted servant here, having 
 
154 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 passed an examination in gang robbery accom- 
 panied by violence and prevarication. He 
 oannot be discharged under a long term of 
 years. Uncovenanted pilferers, in for a week, 
 regard him with respect and envy. And cer- 
 tainly his lot is enviable : he has no cares, no 
 anxieties. Famine and the depreciation of 
 silver are nothing to him. Rain or sunshine, 
 he lives in plenty. His days are spent in an 
 innocent round of duties, relieved by sleep 
 and contemplation of t6 bv. In the long heats 
 of summer he whiles away the time with car- 
 pet-making; between the showers of autumn 
 he digs, like our first parents, in the Doctor's 
 garden ; and in winter, as there is no billiard- 
 table, he takes a turn on the treadmill with 
 his mates. Perhaps, as he does so, he recites 
 Charles Lamb's Pindaric ode : — 
 
 " Great mill ! 
 That by thy motion proper 
 (No thanks to wind or sail, or toiling rill) 
 Grinding that stubborn corn, the human will, 
 Turn'st out men's consciences, 
 Than were begrimed before, as clean and sweet 
 As flour from purest wheat, 
 Into thy hopper." 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 155 
 
 Yet sometimes a murmur rises like a summer 
 zephyr even from the soft lap of luxury and 
 ■ease. Even the hardened criminal, dandled 
 on the knee of a patriarchal Government, will 
 sometimes complain and try to give the Doctor 
 trouble. But the Doctor has a specific— a 
 brief incantation that allays every species of 
 inflammatory discontent. " Look here, my 
 man ! If I hear any more of this infernal 
 nonsense, I '11 turn you out of the gaol neck 
 and crop." This is a threat that never fails 
 to produce the desired effect. To be expelled 
 from gaol and driven, like Cain, into the rude 
 and wicked world, a wanderer, an outcast — 
 this would indeed be a cruel ban. Before 
 such a presentiment the well-ordered mind of 
 the criminal recoils with horror. 
 
 The Civil Surgeon is also a rain doctor, and 
 takes charge of the Imperial gauge. If a pint 
 more or a pint less than usual falls, he at once 
 telegraphs this priceless gossip to the Press 
 Commissioner, Oracle Grotto, Delphi, Elysium. 
 This is one of our precautions to guard against 
 famine. Mr. Caird is the other. 
 
No. XVII. 
 
 THE SHIKAEEY. 
 
159 
 
 No. XVII. 
 THE SHIKABKY. 
 
 I have come out to spend a day in the jungle 
 with him, 10 see him play on his own stage. 
 Hjs little Hock of white tents have flown many a 
 march to meet me, and have now alighted at 
 this accessible spot near a poor hamlet on the 
 verge of cultivation. I feel that I have only 
 to yield myself for a few days to their hospitable 
 importunities and they will waft me away to 
 profound forest depths, to the awful penetralia 
 of the bison and the tiger. Even here every- 
 thing is strange to me ; the common native has 
 
160 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 become a Bheel, the sparrowhawk an eagle, 
 the grass of the field a vast, reedy growth in 
 which an elephant becomes a mere field-mouse. 
 Out of the leaves come strange bird-notes, a 
 strange silence broods over us ; it is broken 
 by strange rustlings and cries ; it closes over us 
 again strangely. Nature swoons in its glory 
 of sunshine and weird music ; it has put forth 
 its powers in colossal timber and howling 
 beasts of prey ; it faints amid little wild 
 flowers, fanned by breezes and butterflies. 
 
 My heart beats in strange anapaests. This 
 dream-world of leaf and bird stirs the blood 
 with a strange enchantment. The Spirit of 
 Nature touches us with her caduceus : — 
 
 " Fair are others, none behold thee ; 
 But thy voice sounds low and tender 
 Like the fairest, for it folds thee 
 From the sight, that liquid splendour ; 
 And all feel, yet see thee never, 
 As I feel now . . . ." 
 
 Our tents are played upon by the flickering 
 shadows of the vast pipal-tree that rises in 
 a laocoon turtuosity of roots out of an old 
 well. The spot is cool and pleasant. Kound 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 161 
 
 us are picketed elephants, camels, bullocks, 
 and horses, all enjoying the shade. Our 
 servants are cooking their food on the pre- 
 cincts ; each is busy in front of his own little 
 mud fire-place. On a larger altar greater 
 sacrifices are being offered up for our breakfast. 
 A crowd of nearly naked Bheels watch the 
 rites and snuff the fragrant incense of venison 
 from a respectful distance. Their leader, a 
 broken-looking old man, with hardly a rag 
 on, stands apart exchanging deep confidences 
 with my friend the Shikarry. This old Bheel 
 is girt about the loins with knives, pouches, 
 powder-horns, and ramrods ; and he carries on 
 his shoulder an aged flintlock. He looks old 
 enough to be an English General Officer or a 
 Cabinet Minister ; and you might assume that 
 he was in the last stage of physical and mental 
 decay. But you would be quite wrong. This 
 old Bheel will sit up all night on the branch 
 of a tree among the horned owls ; he will see 
 the tiger kill the young buffalo tied up as a 
 bait beneath ; he will see it drink the life- 
 blood and tear the haunch; he will watch it 
 steal away and hide under the karaunda bush ; 
 
 11 
 
162 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 he will sit there till day breaks, when he will 
 creep under the thorn jungle, across the 
 stream, up the scarp of the ravine, through 
 the long grass to the sahib's camp, and give 
 the word that makes the hunter's heart dance. 
 From the camp he will stride from hamlet to 
 hamlet till he has raised an army of beaters ; 
 and he will be back at the camp with his 
 forces before the sahib has breakfasted. 
 Through the long heats of the day he will be 
 the life and soul of the hunt, urging on the 
 beaters with voice and example, climbing trees, 
 ^peeping under bushes, carrying orders, giving 
 advice, changing the line, until that supreme 
 moment when shots are fired, when the 
 rasping growl tells that the shots have taken 
 effect, and when at length the huge striped cat 
 jies stretched out dead. And all this on a 
 handful of parched grain ! 
 
 My friend the Shikarry delights to clothe 
 himself in the coarse fabrics manufactured in 
 gaols, which, when properly patched and deco- 
 rated with pockets, have undoubtedly a certain 
 wild-wood appearance. As the hunter does 
 not happen to be a Bheel with the privileges 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 163 
 
 of nakedness conferred by a brown skin, 
 this is perhaps the only practical alterna- 
 tive. If he went out to shoot in evening 
 clothes, a crush hat, and a hansom cab, 
 the chances are that he would make an 
 example of himself and come to some un- 
 timely end. What would the Apollo Bundar 
 say ? What would the Bengali Baboo say ? 
 What would the sea-aye-ees says ? Yes, our 
 hunter affects coarse and snuffy clothes ; they 
 carry with them suggestions of hardship and 
 roughing it; and his hat is umbrageous and 
 old. 
 
 As to the man under the hat, he is an odd 
 compound of vanity, sentiment, and generosity. 
 He is as affected as a girl. Among other 
 traits he affects reticence, and he will not tell 
 me what the plans for the day are, or what 
 khabbar has been received. Knowing abso- 
 lutely nothing, he moves about with a solemn 
 and important air, and he says to me, " Don't 
 fret yourself, my dear fellow ; you '11 know all 
 about it, time enough. I have made arrange- 
 ments." Then he dissembles and talks of 
 irrelevant topics transcendentally. This makes 
 
 11 * 
 
164 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 me feel such a poor pen-and-ink fellow, such 
 a worm, such a political agent ! 
 
 With this discordant note still vibrating we 
 go in to breakfast ; and then, dear Vanity, he 
 bucks with a quiet, stubborn determination 
 that would fill an American editor or an 
 Under-Secretary of State with despair. He 
 belongs to the twelve-foot-tiger school ; so, 
 perhaps, he can't help it. 
 
 If the whole truth were told, he is a warm- 
 hearted, generous, plucky fellow, with bound- 
 less vanity and a romantic vein of maudlin 
 sentiment that seduces him from time to time 
 into the gin-and-water corner of an Indian 
 newspaper. Under the heading of " The 
 Forest Ranger's Lament," or " The Old 
 Shikarry's Tale of Woe," he hiccoughs his 
 column of sickly lines (with St. Vitus's dance 
 in their feet), and then I believe he feels better. 
 I have seen him do it ; I have caught him in 
 criminal conversation with a pen and a sheet 
 of paper ; a bottle at hand — 
 
 A quo, ceu fonte perenni, 
 Vatum Pieriis ora rigantur aquis. 
 
 In appearance he is a very short man with 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 165 
 
 a long black beard, a sunburnt face, and a clay 
 pipe. He has shot battalions of tigers and 
 speared squadrons of wild pig. He is uni- 
 versally loved, universally admired, and uni- 
 versally laughed at. 
 
 He is generous to a fault. All the young 
 fellows for miles round owe him money. He 
 would think there was something wrong if 
 they did not borrow from him ; and yet, some- 
 how, I don't think that he is very well off. 
 There is nothing in his bungalow but guns, 
 spears, and hunting trophies; he never goes 
 home, and I have an idea that there is some 
 heavy drain on his purse in the whole country. 
 But you should hear him troll a hunting song 
 with his grand organ voice, and you would 
 fancy him the richest man in the t world, his 
 note is so high and triumphant ! 
 
 So when in after days we boast 
 
 Of many wild boars slain, 
 We'll not forget our runs to toast 
 
 Or run them o'er again. 
 
 And when our memory's mirror true 
 
 Reflects the scenes of yore, 
 We'll think of him it brings to view, 
 
 Who loved to hunt the boar. 
 
No. XVIII. 
 
 THE GEASS-WIDOW IN 
 NEPHELOCOCCYGIA. 
 
169 
 
 No. XVIII. 
 
 THE GEASS-WIDOW IN 
 NBPHELOCOCCYGIA. 
 
 " Her bosom's lord sits lightly on his throne ? 
 
 Little Mrs. Lollipop has certainly proved a 
 source of disappointment to her lady friends. 
 They have watched her for three seasons 
 going lightly and merrily through all the 
 gaieties of Cloudland ; they have listened to the 
 scandal of the cuckoos among the pine-trees and 
 rhododendrons, but they have not caught her 
 tripping. Oh, no, they will never catch her 
 tripping. She does not trip for their amuse- 
 
170 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 ment: perhaps she trips it when they go on 
 the light fantastic toe, hut there is no evidence ; 
 there is only a zephyr of conjecture, only the 
 world's low whisper not yet broken into storm 
 — not yet. 
 
 Yes, she is a source of disappointment to 
 them. They have noted her points ; her beauty 
 has hurned itself into their jealousy ; her merry 
 laugh has fanned their scorn ; her bountiful 3 
 presence is an affront to them, as is her 
 ripe and lissom figure. They pronounce her 
 morally unsound ; they say her nature has 
 a taint ; they chill her popularity with silent 
 smiles of slow disparagement. But they have 
 no particulars ; their slander is not concrete. 
 It is an amorphous accusation, sweeping and 
 vague, spleen-born and proofless. 
 
 She certainly knows how to dress. Her 
 weeds sit easily and smoothly on their delight- 
 ful mould. You might think of her as a 
 sweet, warm statue painted in water-colours. 
 (Who wouldn't be her Pygmalion ?) If she 
 adds a garment it is an improvement ; if she 
 removes a garment it is an improvement ; if 
 she dresses her hair it is better ; if she lets it 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 171 
 
 fall in a brown cascade over her white shoul- 
 ders it is still better ; when it is yet in curl- 
 papers it is charming. If you smudge the tip 
 of her nose with a burnt cork the effect is 
 irresistible ; if you stick a flower in her hair 
 it is a fancy dress, a complete costume — she 
 becomes Flora, Aurora, anything you like to 
 name. Yet I have never clothed her in a 
 flower, I have never smudged her nose with a 
 burnt cork, I have never uncurled her hair. 
 Ali Baba's character must not go drifting 
 down the stream of gossip with the Hill 
 Captains and the Under-Secretaries. But I 
 hope that this does not destroy the argument. 
 The argument is that she is quite too delight- 
 ful, and therefore blown upon by poisonous 
 whispers. 
 
 Her bungalow is on Elysium, of course ; it 
 is a cottage with a verandah, built on a steep 
 slope, and buried deep in shrubbery and trees. 
 Within all is plain, but exquisitively neat. A 
 wood fire is burning gaily, and the kindly tea- 
 tray is at hand. It is five o'clock. Clean 
 servants move silently about with hot water, 
 cake, &c. The little boy, a hostage from 
 
172 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 papa in the warm plains below, is sitting pen- 
 sive, after the fashion of Anglo-Indian children, 
 in a little chair. His bearer crouches behind 
 him. The unspeakable widow, in a tea-gown 
 dimly splendid with tropical vegetation in 
 neutral tints, holds a piece of chocolate in her 
 hand, while she leans back in her fauteuil 
 convulsed with laughter. (It is not necessary 
 to say that Ali Baba is relating one of his 
 improving tales.) How pretty she looks, show- 
 ing her excellent teeth and suffused with bright 
 warm blushes. As I gaze upon her with fond 
 amazement, I murmur mechanically : — 
 
 Mine be a cot beside the hill ; 
 
 A tea-pot's hum shall soothe my ear, 
 A widowy girl, that likes me still, 
 
 With many a smile shall linger near. 
 
 I have been asked to write a philosophical 
 minute on the mental and moral condition of 
 delightful Mrs. Lollipop's husband who lives 
 down in the plains. I have been requested by the 
 Press Commissioner to inquire in Government 
 fashion, with pen and ink, as to whether the 
 complaisant proprietor of so many charms 
 desires to have a recheat winded in his fore- 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 173 
 
 head, and to hang his bugle in an invisible 
 baldrick ; whether it is true in his case that 
 Love's ear will hear the lowest cuckoo note, 
 and that Love's perception of gossip is more 
 soft and sensible than are the tender horns of 
 cockled snails. Towards all these points I 
 have directed my researches. I have resolved 
 myself into a Special Commission, and I have 
 sat upon grass-widowers in camera. If I sit 
 a little longer a Eeport will be hatched, which, 
 of course, I shall take to England, and when 
 there I shall go to the places of amusement 
 with the Famine Commission, and have rather a 
 good time of it. Already I can see, with that 
 bright internal eye which requires no lime- 
 light, grim Famine stalking about the Aqua- 
 rium after dinner with a merry jest preeing its 
 wings on his lips. 
 
 But what has all this talk of country matters 
 to do with little Mrs. Lollipop ? Absolutely 
 nothing. She thinks no ill of herself. She 
 is the most charitable woman in the world. 
 There is no veil of sin over her eye ; no cloud 
 of suspicion darkens her forehead ; no con- 
 cealment feeds upon her damask cheek. Like 
 
174 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 Eve she goes about hand in hand with her 
 friends, in native innocence, relying on what 
 she has of virtue. Sweet simplicity ! sweet 
 confidence ! My eagle quill shall not flutter 
 these doves. 
 
 Have you ever watched her at a big dauce ? 
 She takes possession of some large warrior 
 who has lately arrived fram the battle-fields of 
 Umballa or Meerut, and she chaperones him 
 about the rooms, staying him with flagons 
 and prattling low nothings. The weaker 
 vessel jibs a little at first ; but gradually the 
 spell begins to work and the love-light kindles 
 in his eye. He dances, he makes a joke, he 
 tells a story, he turns round and looks her in 
 the face. He is lost. That big centurion is a 
 casualty ; and no one pities him. " How can 
 he go on like that, odious creature ! " say the 
 writhered wall-flowers, and the Hill Captains 
 fume round, working out formulae to express 
 his baseness But he is away on the glorious 
 mountains of vanity ; the intoxicating atmo- 
 sphere makes life tingle in his blood ; he is an 
 depo(3drt]g, he no longer treads the earth. In a 
 few days Mrs. Lollipop will receive a post- 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 175 
 
 -card from the Colonel of her centurion's regi- 
 ment. 
 
 "My Dear Mrs. 
 
 Lollipop, die, per omnes 
 Te deos oro, Robinson cur properes amando 
 Perdere ? cur apricum 
 
 Oderit campum, patiens pulveris atque solis. 
 Yrs. Sincy. 
 
 Horace Fitzdottrel." 
 
 Ten to one an Archdeacon will be sent for 
 to translate this. Ten to one there is a shindy, 
 ending in tea and tearful smiles ; for she is 
 bound to get a blowing up. 
 
 After what I have written I suppose it 
 would be superfluous to affirm with oaths my 
 irrefragable belief in Mrs. Lollipop's innocence ; 
 it would be superfluous to deprecate the many- 
 winged slanders that wound this milk-white 
 hind. If, however, by swearing, any of your 
 readers think I can be of service to her charac- 
 ter, I hope they will let me know. I have 
 learnt a few oaths lately that I reckon will 
 un sphere some of the scandal-mongers of 
 Nephelococcygia. I had my ear one morning 
 at the key-hole when the Army Commission 
 was revising the cursing and swearing code 
 
176 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 for field service. — (Ah ! these dear old Generals, 
 what depths of simplicity they disclose when 
 they get by themselves. I sometimes think 
 that if I had my life to live over again I would 
 keep a newspaper and become a really great 
 General. I know some live or six obscure 
 aboriginal tribes that have never yet yielded a 
 single war or a single K.C.B.) 
 
 But this is a digression. I was maintaining 
 the goodness of Mrs. Lollipop — little Mrs. Lol- 
 lipop ! sweet little Mrs. Lollipop ! I was going 
 to say that she was far too good to be made 
 the subject of whisperings and inuendoes 
 Her virtue is of such a robust type that even a 
 Divorce Court would sink back abashed before 
 it, like a guilty thing surprised. Indeed, she 
 often reminds me of Caasar's wife. 
 
 The harpies of scandal protest that she 
 dresses too low ; that she exposes too freely the 
 well-rounded charms of her black silk stock- 
 ings ; that she appears at fancy-dress balls 
 picturesquely unclothed — in a word, that the 
 public see a little too much of little Mrs. 
 Lollipop ; and that, in conversation with men, 
 she nibbles at the forbidden apples of thought. 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 177 
 
 But all this proves her innocence, surely. 
 She fears no danger, for she knows no sin. 
 She cannot understand why she should hide 
 anything from an admiring world. Why 
 keep her charms concealed from mortal eye, 
 like roses that in deserts hloom and die ? She 
 often reminds me of Una in Hypocrisy's cell. 
 
 I heard an old Gorgon ask one of Mrs. 
 Lollipop's clientele the other day whether he 
 would like to be Mrs. Lollipop's husband. 
 41 No," he said, " not her husband ; I am not 
 worthy to be the husband — 
 
 ♦•But I would be the necklace, 
 And all day long to fall and rise 
 Upon her balmy bosom 
 With her laughter or her sighs ; 
 And I would lie so light, so light, 
 I scarce should be unclasped at night." 
 
 That old Gorgon is now going through a 
 course of hysterics under medical and clerical 
 advice. Her ears are in as bad a case as Lady 
 Macbeth's hands. Hymns will not purge 
 them. 
 
 12 
 
No. XIX. 
 
 THE TEAVELLING M.P. 
 
 THE BRITISH LION RAMPANT. 
 
 12 • 
 
181 
 
 No. XIX. 
 THE TEAVELLING M.P, 
 
 THE BRITISH LION RAMPANT. 
 
 There is not a more fearful wild fowl than 
 your travelling M.P. This unhappy creature, 
 whose mind is a perfect blank regarding Fauj- 
 dari and Bandobast, and who cannot distin- 
 guish the molluscous baboo from the osseous 
 pathan, will actually presume to discuss Indian 
 subjects with you, unless strict precautions be 
 taken. 
 
 When I meet one of these loose M.P/s 
 
182 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 ramping about I always cut his claws at once. 
 I say, "Now, Mr. T. G., you must understand 
 that according to my standard you are a 
 homunculus of the lowest type. There is 
 nothing I value a man for that you can do; 
 there is nothing I consider worth directing the 
 human mind upon that you know. If you 
 ask for any information which I may deem it 
 expedient to give to a person in your un- 
 fortunate position, well and good ; hut if 
 you venture to argue with me, to express 
 any opinion, to criticise anything I may be 
 good enough to say regarding India, or to 
 quote any passage relating to Asia from the 
 works of Burke, Cowper, Bright, or Fawcett, 
 I will hand you over to Major Henderson for 
 strangulation, I will cause your body to 
 be burnt by an Imperial Commission of 
 sweepers, and I will mention your name in 
 the Pioneer." 
 
 In dangerous cases, where a note-book is 
 carried, your loose M.P. must be made to 
 reside within the pale of guarded conversa- 
 tion. If you are wise you will speak to him 
 in the interrogative mood exclusively ; and 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 183 
 
 you will treat his answers with contumelious 
 laughter or disdainful silence. 
 
 About a week after your M.P. has landed 
 in India he will begin his great work on the 
 history, literature, philosophy, and social insti- 
 tutions of the Hindoos. You will see him in 
 a railway carriage when stirred by the olarpos 
 studying Forbes's Hindustani Manual. He 
 is undoubtedly writing the chapter on the 
 philology of the Aryan Family. Do you ob- 
 serve the fine frenzy that kindles behind his 
 spectacles as he leans back and tries to eject a 
 root ? These pangs are worth about half-a- 
 crown an hour in the present state of the book 
 market. One cannot contemplate them with- 
 out profound emotion. 
 
 The reading world is hunger- bitten about 
 Asia, and I often think I shall take three 
 months' leave and run up a precis of Sanskrit 
 and Pali literature, just a few folios for the 
 learned world. Max Miiller begs me to learn 
 these languages first ; but this would be a toil 
 and drudgery, whereas to me the pursuit of 
 literary excellence and fame is a mere amuse- 
 ment, like lawn-tennis or rinking. It is the 
 
184 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 fault of the age to make a labour of what is- 
 meant to be a pastime. 
 
 " Telle est de nos plaisirs la surface legere ; 
 Glissez, mortels, n'appuyez pas." 
 
 The travelling M.P. will probably come to 
 you with a letter of introduction from the- 
 last station he has visited, and he will imme- 
 diately proceed to make himself quite at home 
 in your bungalow with the easy manners of 
 the Briton abroad. He will acquaint you with 
 his plans and name the places of interest in 
 the neighbourhood which he requires you to 
 show him. He will ask you to take him, as 
 a preliminary canter, to the gaol and lunatic 
 asylum ; and he will make many interesting 
 suggestions to the civil surgeon as to the man- 
 agement of these institutions, comparing them 
 unfavourably with those he has visited in 
 other stations. He will then inspect the 
 Brigadier- General commanding the station, 
 the chaplain, and the missionaries. On his 
 return — when he ought to be bathing — he will 
 probably write his article for the Twentieth 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 185 
 
 Century, entitled " Is India Worth Keeping ? " 
 And this ridiculous old Shrovetide cock, whose 
 ignorance and information leave two hroad 
 streaks of laughter in his wake, is turned 
 loose upon the reading public ! Upon my 
 word I believe the reading public would do 
 better to go and sit at the feet of Baboo Silla- 
 bub Thunder Gosht, B.A. 
 
 What is it that these travelling people put 
 on paper ? Let me put it in the form of a 
 conundrum. Q. What is it that the travelling 
 M.P. treasures up and the Anglo-Indian 
 hastens to throw away ? A. Erroneous, hazy, 
 distorted first impressions 
 
 Before the eyes of the griffin, India steams 
 up in poetical mists, illusive, fantastic, subjec- 
 tive, ideal, picturesque. The adult Qui Hai 
 attains to prose, to stern and disappointing 
 realities ; he removes the gilt from the Em- 
 pire and penetrates to the brown ginger-bread 
 of Rajas and Baboos. One of the most serious 
 duties attending a residence in India is the 
 correcting of those misapprehensions which 
 your travelling M.P. sacrifices his bath to 
 hustle upon paper. The spectacled people 
 
186 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 embalmed in secretariats alone among Anglo- 
 Indians continued to see the gay visions of 
 griffinhood. They alone preserve the phantas- 
 magoria of bookland and dreamland. As for 
 the rest of us : — 
 
 Out of the day and night 
 
 A joy has taken flight : 
 
 Baboos and Rajas and Indian lore 
 
 Moved our faint hearts with grief, but with delight 
 
 No more — oh, never more ! 
 
 It is strange that one who is modest and 
 inoffensive in his own country should imme- 
 diately on leaving it exhibit some of the worst 
 features of 'Arryism ; but it seems inevitable. 
 I have met in this unhappy land, countrymen 
 (who are gentlemen in England, Members of 
 Parliament, and Deputy-Lieutenants, and that 
 kind of thing) whose conduct and demeanour 
 while here I can never recall without tears and 
 blushes for our common humanity. My friends 
 witnessing this emotion often suppose that I 
 am thinking of the Famine Commission. 
 
 As far as I can learn, it is a generally 
 received opinion at home that a man who has 
 seen the Taj at Agra, the Qutb at Delhi, and 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 187 
 
 the Duke at Madras, has graduated with 
 honours in all questions connected with 
 British interests in Asia ; and is only unfitted 
 for the office of Governor- General of India 
 from knowing too much. 
 
No. XX. 
 
 MEM-SAHIB 
 
191 
 
 No. XX. 
 
 MEM-SAHIB 
 
 " Her life is lone. He sits apart ; 
 
 He loves her yet : she will not weep, 
 Tho' rapt in matters dark and deep 
 He seems to slight her simple heart. 
 
 For him she plays, to him she sings 
 Of early faith and plighted vows ; 
 She knows but matters of the house, 
 
 And he, he knows a thousand things." 
 
 I first met her shepherding her little flock 
 across the ocean. She was a heautiful woman, 
 in the full sweetness and bloom of life. Her 
 talk was of the busy husband she had left, the 
 station life, the attached servants, the favourite 
 
192 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 horse, the garden and the bungalow. Her 
 husband would soon follow her, in a year, or 
 two years, and they would return together; 
 but they would return to a silent home — the 
 children would be left behind She was going 
 home to her mother and sisters ; but there had 
 been changes in this home. So her thoughts 
 were woven of hopes and fears ; and, as she 
 sat on deck of an evening, with the great heart 
 of the moon-lit sea palpitating around us, and 
 the homeless night-wind sighing through the 
 cordage, she would sing to us one of the plain- 
 tive ballads of the old country, till we forgot 
 to listen to the sobbing and the trampling of 
 the engines, and till all sights and sounds 
 resolved themselves into a temple of sentiment 
 round a charming priestess chanting low 
 anthems. She would leave us early to go to 
 her babies. She would leave us throbbing 
 with mock heroics, undecided whether we 
 should cry, or consecrate our lives to some 
 high and noble enterprise, or drink one more 
 glass of hot whiskey- and- water. She was 
 kind, but not sentimental ; her sweet, yet 
 practical " good-nk' t" was quite of the work- 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 19& 
 
 a-day world ; we felt that it tended to dispel 
 illusions. 
 
 She had three little hoys, who were turned 
 out three times a-day in the ultimate state of 
 good behaviour, tidiness, and cleanliness, and 
 who lapsed three times a-day into a state of ori- 
 ginal sin combined with tar and ship's grease. 
 These three little boys pervaded the vessel 
 with an innocent smile on their three little 
 faces, their mother's winning smile. Every 
 man on the ship was their own familiar friend, 
 bound to them by little interchanges of 
 biscuits, confidences, twine, and by that 
 electric smile which their mother communi- 
 cated, and from which no one wished to be 
 insulated. Yes, they quite pervaded the 
 vessel, these three little innocents, flying that 
 bright and friendly smile ; and there was no 
 description of mischief suitable for three very 
 little boys that they did not exhaust. The 
 ingenuity they squandered every day in doing 
 a hundred things which they ought not to 
 have done was perfectly marvellous. Before 
 the voyage was half over we thought there 
 was nothing left for them to do ; but we were 
 
 13 
 
194 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 entirely mistaken. The daily round, a common 
 cask would furnish all they had to ask ; to 
 them the meanest whistle that blows, or a 
 pocket-knife, could give thoughts that too often 
 led to smiles and tears. 
 
 Their mother's thoughts were ever with 
 them ; but she was like a hen with a brood of 
 ducklings. They passed out of her element, 
 and only returned as hunger called them. 
 When they did return she was all that soap and 
 water, loving reproaches, and tender appeals 
 could be; and as they were very affectionate 
 little boys, they were for the time thoroughly 
 cleansed morally and physically, and sealed 
 with the absolution of kisses. 
 
 I saw her three years afterwards in England. 
 She was living in lodgings near a school which 
 her boys attended. She looked careworn. 
 Her relations had been kind to her, but not 
 warmly affectionate. She had been disap- 
 pointed with the welcome they had given her. 
 They seemed changed to her, more formal, 
 narrower, colder. She longed to be back in 
 India; to be with her husband once more. 
 But he was engrossed with his work. He 
 
One day in india. 195 
 
 wrote short letters enclosing cheques ; but he 
 never said that he missed her, that he longed 
 to see her again, that she must come out to 
 him, or that he must go to her. He could 
 not have grown cold too ? No, he was busy ; 
 he had never been demonstrative in his affec- 
 tion ; this was his way. And she was anxious 
 about the boys. She did not know whether 
 they were really getting on, whether she was 
 doing the best for them, whether their father 
 would be satisfied. She had no friends near 
 her, no one to speak to ; so she brooded 
 over these problems, exaggerated them, and 
 fretted. 
 
 The husband was a man who lived in his 
 own thoughts, and his thoughts were book 
 thoughts. The world of leaf and bird, the 
 circumambient firmament of music and light, 
 shone in upon him through books. A book 
 was the master-key that unlocked all his 
 senses, that unfolded the varied landscape, 
 animated the hero, painted the flower, swelled 
 the orchestra of wind and ocean, peopled the 
 plains of India with starvelings and the moun- 
 tains of Afghanistan with cut- throats. With- 
 
 18 * 
 
liJG ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 out a book he moved about like a shadow lost 
 in some dim dreamland of echoes. 
 
 Everyone knew he was a scholar, and his 
 thoughts had once or twice rung out to 
 the world clear and loud as a trumpet-note 
 through the oracles of the Press. ■ But in 
 society he was shy, awkward, and uncouth of 
 speech, quite unable to marshal his thoughts, 
 deserted by his memory, abashed before his 
 own silences, and startled by his own words. 
 Any fool who could talk about the legs of a 
 horse or the height of a thermometer was 
 Prospero to this social Caliban. 
 
 He felt that before the fine instincts of 
 women his infirmity was especially conspicuous, 
 and he drifted into misogyny, through bashful- 
 ness and pride ; and yet misogyny was incom- 
 patible with his scheme of life and his am- 
 bition. He felt himself to be worthy of the full 
 diapason of home life ; he desired to be as 
 other men were, besides being something 
 more — 
 
 Kaicbv fwalxtQ dW ofxojQ, w dtjfiorai, 
 
 Oi»»c toriy oikuv oiKiav dvev kcikov. 
 
 Kai yap to yi]p,ai, feat to firj yrjfiai, kcxkov. 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 197 
 
 So he married her who loved him for choosing 
 her, and who reverenced him for his mysterious 
 treasures of thought. 
 
 There was much in his life that she could 
 never share ; but he longed for companionship 
 in thought, and for the first year of their 
 married life he tried to introduce her to his 
 world. He led her slowly up to the quiet hill- 
 tops of thought where the air is still and clear, 
 and he gave her to drink of the magic foun- 
 tains of music. Their hearts beat one delicious 
 measure. Her gentle nature was plastic under 
 the poet's touch, wrought in an instant to per- 
 fect harmony with love, or tears, or laughter. 
 To read aloud to her in the evening after the 
 day's work was over, and to see her stirred 
 by every breath of the thought- storm, was to 
 enjoy an exquisite interpretation of the poet's 
 motive, like an impression bold and sharp 
 from the matrix of the poet's mind. This was 
 to hear the song of the poet and Nature's 
 low echo. How tranquillising it was ! How 
 it effaced the petty vexations of the day ! — 
 " softening and Concealing ; and busy with a 
 hand of healing." 
 
198 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 Tale tuum carmen nobis, divine poeta, 
 
 Quale sopor f essis in gramme, quale per aestum 
 
 Dulcis aquae saliente sitim restinguere rivo. 
 
 But with the advent of babies and after long* 
 separations poetry declined, and the sympathetic 
 wife became more and more motherly. The 
 father retired sadly into the cloudland of books. 
 He will not emerge again. Husband and wife 
 will stand upon the clear hill- tops together no 
 more. 
 
 Neither quite knows what has happened ; 
 they both feel changed with an undefined 
 sorrow, with a regret that pride will not 
 enunciate. She is now again in India with her 
 husband. There are duties, courtesies, nay, 
 kindnesses which both will perform, but the 
 ghost of love and sympathy will only rise in 
 their hearts to gibber in mockery words and 
 phrases that have lost their meaning, that have 
 lost their enchantment. 
 
 O Love ! who bewailest 
 
 The frailty of all things here, 
 Why choose you the frailest 
 
 For your cradle, your home, and your bier ? 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 199 1 
 
 Its passions will rock thee 
 
 As the storms rock the raven on high ; 
 Bright reason will mock thee 
 
 Like the sun from a wintry sky. 
 
 From thy nest every rafter 
 
 Will rot, and thine eagle home 
 Leave thee naked to laughter 
 
 When leaves fall and cold winds come." 
 
No. XXI. 
 
 ALI BABA ALONE 
 
 THE LAST DAY. 
 
203 
 
 No. XXI. 
 ALI BABA ALONE; 
 
 THE LAST DAY. 
 
 11 Now the last of many days, 
 
 All beautiful and bright as thou, 
 The loveliest and the last is dead. 
 Rise, memory, and write its praise." 
 
 How shall I lay this spectre of my own iden- 
 tity ? Shall I leave it to melt away gracefully 
 in the light of setting suns ? It would never 
 do to put it out like a farthing rushlight after 
 it had haunted the Great Ornamental in an 
 aurora of smiles. Is Ali Baba to cease upon 
 the midnight without pain ? or is he to lie 
 
204 
 
 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 down like a tired child and weep out the spark? 
 or should he just flit to Elysium ? There, seated 
 on Elysian lawns, browsed by none but Dian's 
 (no allusion to little Mrs. Lollipop) fawns, 
 amid the noise of fountains wonderous and the 
 parle of voices thunderous, some wag might 
 scribble on his door, " Here lies Ali Baba," as 
 if glancing at his truthfulness. How is he to 
 pass effectively into the golden silences ? How 
 is he to relapse into the still- world of observa- 
 tion ? Would four thousand five hundred a 
 month and Simla do it, with nothing to do and 
 allowances, and a seat beside those littered 
 under the swart Dog-Star of India ? Or is 
 it to be the mandragora of pension, that he 
 may sleep out the great gap of ennui between 
 this life and something better? How lonely 
 the Government of India would feel ! How 
 the world would forget the Government of 
 India ! Voices would ask : — 
 
 " Do ye sit there still in slumber 
 In gigantic Alpine rows ? 
 The black poppies out of number 
 
 Nodding, dripping from your brows 
 To the red lees of your wine — 
 And so kept alive and fine. 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 205 
 
 Sometimes I think that Ali Baba should be 
 satisfied with the oblivion-mantle of knight- 
 hood and relapse into dingy respectability in 
 the Avilion of Brompton or Bath ; but since 
 he has taken to wearing stars the accompany 
 ing itch for blood and fame has come : — 
 
 How doth the greedy K.C.B. 
 
 Delight to brag and fight, 
 And gather medals all the day 
 
 And wear them all the night. 
 
 The fear of being out-medalled and out- 
 starred stings him. 
 
 Thus the desire to go hustling up the hill to 
 the Temple of Fame with the other starry hosts 
 impels him forward. If you mix yourself up 
 with K.C.B. 's and raise your platform of am- 
 bition, you are just where you were at the 
 ABC of your career. Living on a table- 
 land, you experience no sensation of height. 
 For the intoxicating delight of elevation you 
 require a solitary pinnacle, some lonely emi- 
 nence. Aut Caesar, aut nullus ; whether in the 
 zenith or the nadir of the world's favour. 
 
 But how much more comfortable in the 
 cold season than the chill splendours of the 
 
206 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 pinnacles of fame, where " pale suns unfelt at 
 distance roll away," is a comfortable bungalow 
 on the plains, with a little mulled claret after 
 dinner. Here I think Ali Baba will be found, 
 hidden from his creditors, the reading world, in 
 the warm light of thought, singing songs 
 unbidden till a few select cronies are wrought 
 to sympathy with hopes and fears they heeded 
 not— before the mulled claret. 
 
 To this symposium the A.-D.-C. -in- Waiting 
 has invited himself on behalf of the Empire. 
 He will sing the Imperial Anthem composed 
 by Mr. Eastwick, and it will be translated into 
 archaic Persian by an imperial Munshi for the 
 benefit of the Man in Buckram, who will 
 be present. The Man in Buckram, who is 
 suffering from a cold in his heart, will be 
 wrapped up in himself and a cocked hat. The 
 Press Commissioner has also asked for an 
 invitation. He will deliver a sentiment: — 
 "Quid sit futuram eras fuge quasrere." A 
 Commander-in-Chief will tell the old story 
 about the Service going to the dogs; after 
 which there will be an interval of ten minutes 
 allowed for swearing and hiccuping. The 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 207 
 
 Travelling M.P. will take the opportunity to 
 jot down a few hasty notes on Aryan charac- 
 teristics for the Twentieth Century before being 
 placed under the table. The Baboo will sub- 
 sequently be told off to sit on the Member's 
 head. During this function the Baboo will 
 deliver some sesquipedalian reflections in the 
 rodomontade mood. The Shikarry will then 
 dawdle over a twelve-foot-tiger story, while 
 Mrs. Lollipop tells a fib and makes tea; and 
 Ali Baba (unless his heart be too full of mulled 
 claret) will make a joke. The company will 
 break up at this point, after receiving a plenary 
 dispensation from the Archdeacon. 
 
 Under such influences Ali Baba may become 
 serious ; he may learn from the wisdom of age 
 and be cheered by the sallies of youth. But 
 little Mrs. Lollipop can hardly be called one 
 of the Sallies of his youth. Sally Lollipop 
 rose upon the horizon of his middle age. She 
 boiled up, pure blanc-mange and roses, over 
 the dark brim of life's afternoon, a blushing 
 sunrise, though late in dawning, and most 
 cheerful. Sometimes after spending an after- 
 noon with her, Ali Baba feels so cheered that 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 the Government of India seems quite innocent 
 and bright, like an old ballerina seen through 
 the mists of champagne and lime light. He 
 walks down the Mall smiling upon foolish 
 Under-Secretaries and fat Baboos. The people 
 whisper as he passes, " There goes Ali Baba " ; 
 and echo answers " Who is Ali Baba ? " Then 
 a little wind of conjecture breathes through 
 the pine-trees and names are heard. 
 
 It is better not to call Ali Baba names. 
 Nothing is so misleading as a vulgar nomen- 
 clature. I once knew a man who was called 
 " Counsellor of the Empress " when he ought 
 to have had his photograph exposed in the 
 London shop-windows like King Cetewayo, 
 K.C.M.G. I have heard an eminent Frontier 
 General called " Judas Iscariot," and I myself 
 was once pointed out as a "Famine Com- 
 missioner," and afterwards as an expurgated 
 edition of the Secretary to the Punjab 
 Government. People seemed to think that 
 Ali Baba would smell sweeter under some other 
 name. This was a mistake. 
 
 Almost everything you are told in Simla is 
 a mistake. You should never believe anything 
 
ONE DAY IN INDIA. 209 
 
 you hear till it is contradicted by the Pioneer. 
 I suppose the Government of India is the 
 greatest yobemouche in the world. I suppose 
 there never was an administration of equal 
 importance which received so much information 
 and which was so ill-informed. At a bureau- 
 cratic Simla dinner-party the abysses of 
 ignorance that yawn below the company on 
 every Indian topic are quite appalling ! 
 
 I once heard Mr. Stokes say that he had 
 never heard of my book on the Permanent 
 Settlement ; and yet Mr. Stokes is a decidedly 
 intelligent man., with some knowledge of 
 Cymric and law. I daresay now if you were 
 to draw off and decant the law on his brain, 
 it would amount to a full dose for an adult; 
 yet he never heard of my book on the Per- 
 manent Settlement. He knew about Black- 
 stone; he had seen an old copy once in a 
 second-hand book shop ; but he had never 
 heard of my work ! How loosely the world 
 floats around us ! I question its objective 
 reality. I doubt whether anything has more 
 objectivity in it than Ali Baba himself. He 
 was certainly flogged at school. Yet when we 
 
 14 
 
210 ONE DAY IN INDIA. 
 
 now try to put our finger on Ali Baba he eludes 
 the touch ; when we try to lay him he starts 
 up gibbering at Oabul, Lahore, or elsewhere. 
 Perhaps it would be easier to imprison him in 
 morocco boards and allow him to be blown 
 with restless violence round about the pendant 
 world, abandoned to critics : whom our 
 lawless and uncertain thoughts imagine 
 howling. 
 
 London : Printed by W. H. Allen & Co., 13, Waterloo Place, S.W 
 
W. H. ALLEN & CO.'S 
 
 NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
 
 BEITISH INDIA and ITS RULERS. 
 
 By H. S. Cunningham, M.A., one of the 
 Judges of the High Court of Calcutta, and 
 late Member of the Famine Commission. 
 8vo. 10s. 6d. 
 
 THE HORSE ; AS HE WAS, AS HE 
 
 IS, AND AS HE OUGHT TO BE. By 
 James Irvine Lupton, F.E.C.Y.S., Author 
 of " The External Anatomy of the Horse," 
 &c, &c. Illustrated. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. 
 
 WITH THE KtTRRAM FORCE in the 
 KABUL CAMPAIGN of 1878-1879. By 
 Major J. A. S. Colquhoun, E.A. With 
 Hlustrations by the Author. 8vo. 16s. 
 
 THE HISTORY OF CHINA. By 
 
 Demetrius Charles Boulger, Author of 
 " England and Eussia in Central Asia," <fec. 
 Vol. I. 8vo. 18s. 
 
RECORDS of SPORT and MILITARY 
 LIFE in WESTERN INDIA. By the late 
 Lieutenant-Colonel G. T. Fraser, formerly 
 of the 1st Bombay Fusiliers, and more re- 
 cently attached to the Staff of H.M.'s Indian 
 Army. With an Introduction by Colonel 
 Gr. B. Malleson, C.S.I. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. 
 
 LADIES ON HORSEBACK: Learn- 
 
 ing, Park-riding, and Hunting, with Hints 
 upon Costume, and numerous Anecdotes. 
 By Mrs. Power O'Donoghtje, Authoress of 
 " The Knave of Clubs," " Horses and Horse- 
 men," &c, &c. Crown 8vo. 5s. 
 
 HOW TO RIDE AND SCHOOL A 
 
 HORSE; with a System of Horse Gym- 
 nastics. By Edward L. Anderson. Crown 
 8vo. 2s. 6d. 
 
 MEMOIRS OF A GRIFFIN; or, a 
 
 Cadet's First Year in India. By Captain 
 
 Bellew. A New Edition, Crown 8vo. 
 
 Illustrated from Designs by the Author. 
 10s. 6d. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 W. H. ALLEN & CO., 13 WATERLOO PLACE, S.W. 
 
April, 1882. 
 
 BOOKS, &a, 
 
 ISSUED BY 
 
 MESSRS. W. H. ALLEN & Co., 
 
 iPuWtefjers & ILiterarg Agents to tfje EnWa ©ffice, 
 
 COMPKIS1NG 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS IN GENEEAL 
 LITEEATUEE. 
 
 DICTIONARIES, GEAMMAES, AND TEXT BOOKS 
 IN EASTEEN LANGUAGES. 
 
 MJXITAEY WOEKS, INCLUDING THOSE ISSUED 
 BY THE GOYEENMENT. 
 
 INDIAN AND MILITAEY LAW. 
 
 MAPS OF INDIA, &c. 
 
 13, WATEELOO PLACE, LONDON, S.W. 
 
W. H. Allen & Co., 
 
 Works issued from the India Office, and Sold by 
 Wm. H. ALLEN & Co. 
 
 Tree and Serpent Worship ; 
 
 Or, Illustrations of Mythology and Art in India in the First 
 and Fourth Centuries after Christ, from the Sculptures of the 
 Buddhist Topes at Sanchi and Amravati. Prepared at the 
 India Museum, under the authority of the Secretary of State 
 for India in Council. Second edition, Revised, Corrected, and 
 m great part Re-written. By James Fergusson, Esq., F.R.S., 
 F.R.A.S. Super-royal 4to. 100 plates and 31 engravings, 
 pp. 270. Price £5 5s. 
 
 Illustrations of Ancient Building's in Kashmir. 
 
 Prepared at the Indian Museum under the authority of the 
 Secretary of State for India in Council. From Photographs, 
 Plans, and Drawings taken by Order of the Government of 
 India. By Henry Hardy Cole, Lieut. R.E., Superintendent 
 Archaeological Survey of India, North- West Provinces. In 
 One vol. ; half-bound, Quarto. Fifty-eight plates. £3 10s. 
 
 The Illustrations in this work have been produced in Carbon from 
 the original negatives, and are therefore permanent. 
 
 Pharmacopoeia of India. 
 
 Prepared under the Authority of the Secretary of State for 
 
 India. By Edward John Waring, M.D. Assisted by a 
 
 Committee appointed for the Purpose. 8vo. 6s. 
 
 The Stupa of Bharhut. A Buddhist Monument. 
 
 Ornamented with numerous Sculptures illustrative of Buddhist 
 Legend and History in the Third Century B.C. By Alex- 
 ander Cunningham, C.S.I., CLE., Major-General, Royal 
 Engineers (Bengal Retired) ; Director-General Archaeological 
 Survey of India. 4to. Fifty-seven Plates. Cloth gilt.. 
 ,£3 3s. 
 
13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 
 
 Archaelogical Survey of Western India. 
 
 Report of the First Season's Operations in the Be,lgam and 
 Kaladgi Districts. January to May, 1874 Prepared at the 
 India Museum and Published under the Authoiity of the 
 Secretary of State for India in Council. By James Burgess, 
 Author of the " Rock Temples of Elephanta," &c , &c, and 
 Editor of " The Indian Antiquary." Half-bound, Quarto. 
 58 Plates and Woodouts. £2 2s. 
 
 Archaeological Survey of Western India. Vol. II. 
 
 Report on the Antiquities of Kathiawad and Kachh, being the 
 result of the Second Season's Operations of the Archaeological 
 Survey of Western India. 1874-75. By James Burgess, 
 F.R.G.S , M.R.A.S., &c, Archaeological Surveyor and Reporter 
 to Government, Western India. 1876. Half-bound. Quarto. 
 Seventy-four Plates and Woodcuts. <£3 3s. 
 
 Archaeological Survey of Western India. Vol. III. 
 
 Report on the Antiquities in the Bidar and Aurungabad Dis- 
 tricts in the Territory of H.H. the Nizam of Haidarabad, 
 being the result of the Third Season's Operations of the 
 Archaeological Survey of Western India. 1875-1876. By 
 James Buugess, F.R.G.S., M.R.A.S., Membre de la Societe 
 Asiatique, &c, Archaeological Surveyor and Reporter to Go- 
 vernment, Western India. Half-bound. Quarto. Sixty-six 
 Plates and Woodcuts. «£2 2s. 
 
 Illustrations of Buildings near Muttra and Agra, 
 
 Showing the Mixed Hindu-Mahomedan Style of Upper India 
 Prepared at the India Museum under the authority of the 
 Secretary of State for India in Council, from Photographs, 
 Plans, and Drawings taken by Order of the Government of 
 India. By Henry Hardy Cole, Lieut R.E., late Superin- 
 tendent Archaeological Survey of India, North- West Provinces 
 4to. With Photographs and Plates. £3 10s. 
 
 The Cave Temples of India. 
 
 By James Ferguson, D.C.L., F.R.A.S., V.P.RA.S., and 
 James Burgess, F.R.G.S., M.R.A.S., &c. Printed nd Pub- 
 lished by Order of Her Majesty's Secretary of State, <fcc. 
 Royal 8vo. With Photographs and Woodcuts. £'i '^s. 
 
W. H. Allen & Co., 
 
 Aberigh-Mackay (G.) Twenty-one Days in India. 
 
 Being the Tour of Sir Ali Baba, K.C.B. By George 
 
 Aberigh-Mackay. Post 8vo. 4s. 
 Adam W. (late of Calcutta) Theories of History. 
 
 An Inquiry into the Theories of History, — Chance, — Law, — 
 
 Will. With Special Reference to the Principle of Positive 
 
 Philosophy. By Willi a.m Adam. 8vo. 15s. 
 JEsop, the Fables of, and other Eminent Mythologists. 
 
 With Morals and Reflections. By Sir Roger L'Estrange, kt. 
 
 A facsimile reprint of the Edition of 1669. Folio, antique, 
 
 sheep. 21s. 
 Akbar. An Eastern Romance 
 
 By Dr. P. A. S. Van Ltmburg-Brouwer. Translated from 
 
 the Dutch by M. M. With Notes and Introductory Life of 
 
 the Emperor Akbar, by Clements R. Markham, C.B., F.B..S. 
 
 Crown 8vo. 10s. 6d. 
 Alberg (A.) Snowdrops; Idylls for Children. 
 
 From the Swedish of Zach Topelius. By Albert Alberg, 
 
 Author of " Whisperings in the Wood." 3s. 6d. 
 Whisperings in the Wood : Finland Idylls for Children. 
 
 From the Swedish of Zach Topelius. By Albert Alberg, 
 
 Author of " Fabled Stories from the Zoo," and Editor of 
 
 "Chit-Chat by Puck," "Rose Leaves," and "Woodland 
 
 Notes." 3s. 6d. 
 Allen's Series. 
 
 I. — Ansted's World We Live In. 2s. 
 
 2. — Ansted's Earth's History. 2s. 
 
 3. — Ansted's 2000 Examination Questions in Physical Geo- 
 graphy. 2s. 
 
 4. — Geography of India. (See page 10.) 2s. 
 
 5. — Ansted's Elements of Physiography. Is. 4d. 
 
 6. — Hall's Trigonometry. (See page 11.) 2s. 
 
 7. — Wollaston's Elementary Indian Header. Is. (See p. 36.) 
 
 Ameer Ali. The Personal Law of the Mahommedans (ac- 
 cor ing to all the Schools). Together with a Comparative 
 Sketch of the Law of Inheritance among the Sunnis and 
 Shiahs. By Syed Ameer Ali, Moulvi, M.A., LL.B., Barrister- 
 at-Law, and Presidency Magistrate at Calcutta. 8vo. 15s. 
 
 Anderson (Ed. L.) How to Ride and School a Horse. 
 
 With a System of Horse Gymnastics. By Edward L. 
 Anderson. Or. 8vo. 2s. 6d. 
 
 Anderson (P.) The English in Western India. 8vo. 14s. 
 
J 3, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 
 
 Anderson (T.) History of Shorthand. 
 
 With an analysis and review of its present condition and 
 prospects at Home and Abroad. By Thomas Anderson, 
 Parliamentary Reporter, &c. With Portraits. Crown 8vo. 
 12s. 6d. 
 
 Andrew (W. P.) India and Her Neighbours. 
 
 By W. P. Andrew, Author of " Our Scientific Frontier," 
 " The Indus and Its Provinces," " Memoir of the Euphrates 
 Eoute." With Two Maps. 8vo. 15s. 
 
 Our Scientific Frontier. 
 
 With Sketch-Map and Appendix. 8vo. 6s. 
 
 Ansted (D. T.) Physical Geography. 
 
 By Professor D. T. Ansted, M.A., F.R.S., &c. Fifth 
 Edition. Post 8vo., with Illustrative Maps. 7s. 
 Contents: — Part I. — Introduction. — The Earth as a Planet. 
 — Physical Forces. — The Succession of Rocks. Part II. — 
 Earth. — Land. — Mountains. — Hills and Valleys. — Plateaux 
 and Low Plains. PArrr III. — Water. — The Ocean. — Rivers. 
 — Lakes and Waterfalls. — The Phenomena of Ice. — Springs 
 Part IV. — Air. — The Atmosphere. Winds and Storms. — 
 Dew, Clouds, and Rain. — Climate and Weather. Part V. — 
 Fire. — Volcanoes and Volcanic Phenomena. — Earthquakes. 
 Part VI. — Life. — The Distribution of Plants in the different 
 Countries of the Earth. — The Distribution of Animals on the 
 Earth. — The Distribution of Plants and Animals in Time. — 
 Effects of Human Agency on Inanimate Nature. 
 
 " The Book is both valuable and comprehensive, and deserves a wide 
 
 circulation." — Observer. 
 
 Elements of Physiography. 
 
 For the use of Science Schools. Fcap. 8vo. Is. 4d. 
 
 and Latham (E.-G.) Channel Islands. Jersey, Guernsey, 
 
 Alderney, Sark, &c. 
 
 The Channel Islands. Containing : Part I. — Physical 
 Geography. Part II. — Natural History. Part III. — Civil His- 
 tory. Part IV. — Economics and Trade. By David Thomas 
 Ansted, M.A., F.R.S., and Robert Gordon Latham, M.A., 
 M.D., F.R.S. New and Cheaper Edition in one handsome 
 8vo. Volume, with 72 Illustrations on Wood by Vizetelly, 
 Loudon, Nicholls, and Hart ; with Map. 8vo. 16s. 
 
 " This is a really valuable work. A book which will long remain the 
 standard authority on the subject. No one who has been to the Channel 
 Islands, or who purposes going there will be insensible of its value." — 
 
 Saturday Review. 
 " It is the produce of many hands and every hand a good one." 
 
W. H. Allen & Co., 
 
 Ansted (D. T.) The World We Live In. 
 
 Or First Lessons in Physical Geography. For the use of 
 Schools and Students. By D. T. Ansted, M.A., F.RS., &c. 
 Fcap 2s. 25th Thousand, with Illustrations. 
 
 The Earth's History. 
 
 Or, First Lessons in Geology. For the use of Schools and 
 Students. By D. T. Ansted. Third Thousand. Fcap. as. 
 Two Thousand Examination Questions in Physical 
 
 Geography, pp. 180. Price 2s. 
 Water, and Water Supply. 
 
 Chiefly with reference to the British Islands. Part I. — 
 Surface Waters. 8vo. With Maps. 18s. 
 
 Archer (Capt. J. H. Laurence) Commentaries on the 
 Punjaub Campaign — 1848-49, including some additions to the 
 History of the Second Sikh War, from original sources. By 
 Capt. J. H. Lawrence-Archer, Bengal H. P. Cr. 8vo. 8s. 
 
 Army and Navy Calendar for the Financial Year 1882-83. 
 Being a Compendium of General Information relating to the 
 Army, Navy, Militia, and Volunteers, and containing Maps, 
 Plans, Tabulated Statements, Abstracts, &c. Compiled from 
 authentic sources 2s. 6d. 
 
 Army and Navy Magazine. 
 
 Vols. I. and II. are issued, each containing Six Cabinet 
 Photographs of Celebrated Officers. Volumes 7s. 6d. each. 
 
 Aynsley (Mrs.) Our Visit to Hindustan, Kashmir, and Ladakh. 
 By Mrs. J. C. Murray Aynsley. 8vo. 14s. 
 
 Bellew (Capt.) Memoirs of a Griffin ; or, A Cadet's First 
 Year in IndJa. By Captain Bellew. Illustrated from Designs 
 by the Author. A New Edition. Cr. 8vo. 10s. 6d. 
 
 Bernay (Dr. A. J.) Students' Chemistry. 
 
 Being the Seventh Edition of Household Chemistry, or the 
 Science of Home Life. By Albert J. Bernays, Ph. Dr. 
 F.C.S.,Prof. of Chemistry and Practical Chemistry at St, Thomas' 
 Hospital, Medical, and Surgical College. Crown 8vo. 5s. 6d. 
 
 Blanchard (S.) Yesterday and To-day in India. 
 By Sidney Laman Blanchard. Post 8vo. 6s. 
 
 Contents. — Outward Bound. — The Old Times and the New. — 
 Domestic Life. — Houses and Bungalows. — Indian Servants. — 
 The Great Shoe Question. — The Garrison Hack. — The Long 
 Bow in India. — Mrs. Dulcimer's Shipwreck. — A Traveller's 
 Tale, told in a Dark Bungalow. — Punch in India. — Anglo- 
 Indian Literature. — Christmas in India. — The Seasons in 
 Calcutta. — Farmers in Muslin. — Homeward Bound. — India 
 as it Is. 
 
18. Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 
 
 Slenkinsopp (Rev. E. L.) Doctrine of Development in the 
 
 Bible and in the Church. By Rev. E. L. Blenkinsopp, M.A., 
 Rector of Springthorp. 2nd edition. 12mo. 6s. 
 
 3oileau (Major-General J. T.) 
 
 A New and Complete Set of Traverse Tables, showing the 
 Differences of Latitude and the Departures to every Minute of 
 the Quadrant and to Five Places of Decimals. Together with 
 a Table of the lengths of each Degree of Latitude and corres- 
 ponding Degree of Longitude from the Equator to the Poles ; 
 with other Tables useful to the Surveyor and Engineer. 
 Fourth Edition, thoroughly revised and corrected by the 
 Author. Royal 8vo. 12s. London, 1876. 
 
 JJoulger (D. C.) History of China. By Demetrius Charles 
 Boulger, Author of " England and Russia in Central Asia," 
 &c. 8vo. vol. I. With Portrait. 18s. 
 Vol. II. 18s. 
 
 England and Russia in Central Asia. With Appen- 
 dices and Two Maps, one being the latest Russian Official 
 Map of Central Asia. 2 vols. 8vo. 36s. 
 
 Central Asian Portraits; or the Celebrities of the 
 
 Khanates and the Neighbouring States. By Demetrius 
 Charles Boulger, M.R.A.S. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. 
 
 The Life of Yakoob Beg, Athalik Ghazi and Badaulet, 
 
 Ameer of Kashgar. By Demetrius Charles Boulger, 
 M.R.A.S. 8vo. With Map and Appendix. 16s. 
 
 JBowring (Sir J.) Flowery Scroll. 
 
 A Chinese Novel. Translated and Illustrated with Notes bj 
 Sir J. Bowring, late H.B.M. Plenipo. China. Post 8vo. 
 10s. 6d. 
 
 Boyd (R. Nelson) Chili and the Chilians, during the War 
 1879-80. By R. Nelson Boyd, F.R.G.S., F.G.S., Author of 
 Coal Mines Inspection. Cloth, Illustrated. Cr. 8vo. 10s. 6d. 
 
 Coal Mines Inspection; Its History and Results. 
 
 8vo. 14s. 
 
 Bradshaw (John) The Poetical Works of John Milton, 
 with Notes, explanatory and philological. By John Bradshaw, 
 LL.D., Inspector of Schools, Madras. 2 vols., post 8vo. 1 2s. 6d 
 
 Brandis' Forest Flora of North-Western and Central India. 
 By Dr. Brandis, Inspector General of Forests to the Govern- 
 ment of India. Text and Plates. £2 18s. 
 
 Briggs (Gen. J.) India and Europe Compared. 
 Post 8vo. 7s. 
 
W. H. Allen and Co., 
 
 Bright (W.) Red Book for Sergeants. 
 
 Fifth and Ee vised Edition, 1 880. By W. Bright, late Colour- 
 Sergeant, 19th Middlesex R.V. Fcap. interleaved. Is. 
 
 Browne (J. W.) Hardware; How to Buy it for Foreign 
 
 Markets. 8vo. 10s. 6d. 
 
 Buckle (the late Capt. E.) Bengal Artillery. 
 
 A Memoir of the Services of the Bengal Artillery from the 
 formation of the Corps. By the late Capt. E. Buckle, Assist- 
 Adjut. Gen. Ben. Art. Edit, by Sir J. W. Kaye. 8vo. Lond, 
 1852. 10s. 
 
 Buckley (E. B.) The Irrigation Works of India, and their 
 Financial Results. Being a brief History and Description of 
 the Irrigation Works of India, and of the Profits and Losses 
 they have caused to the State. By Robert B. Buckley, 
 A.M. I.C. E., Executive Engineer of the Public Works 
 Department of India. 8vo. With Map and Appendix. 9s. 
 
 Burke (P.) Celebrated Naval and Military Trials. 
 
 By Peter Burke, Serjeant-at-Law. Author of " Celebrated 
 Trials connected with the Aristocracy. " Post 8vo. 10s. 6d.. 
 
 By the Tiber. 
 
 By the Author of " Signor Monaldini's Niece." 2 vols. 21s. 
 
 Carlyle (Thomas), Memoirs of the Life and Writings of, 
 
 With Personal Reminiscences and Selections from his Private 
 Letters to numerous Correspondents. Edited by Richard 
 Herne Shepherd, Assisted by Charles N. Williamson^ 
 2 Vols. With Portrait and Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 21s. 
 
 Challenge of Barletta (The). 
 
 By Massimo D'Azeglio. Rendered into English by Lady 
 Louisa Magekis. 2 vols. Crown 8vo. 21s. 
 
 Collette (C. H.) The Roman Breviary. 
 
 A Critical and Historical Review, with Copious Classified 
 Extracts. By Charles Hastings Collette. 2nd Edition. 
 Revised and enlarged. 8vo. 5s. 
 
 Henry VIII. 
 
 An Historical Sketch as affecting the Reformation in England. 
 By Charles Hastings Collette. Post 8vo. 6s. 
 
 Colquhoun (Major J. A. S.) With the Knrrum Force in the 
 
 Caubul Campaign of 1878-79. By Major J. A. S. Colqu- 
 houn, R.A. With Illustrations from the Author's Drawings,, 
 and two Maps. 8vo. 16s. 
 
18, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 
 
 Cooper's Hill College. Calendar of the Eoyal Indian En- 
 gineering College, Cooper's Hill. Published by authority in 
 January each year. 5s. 
 
 Contents. — Staff of the College ; Prospectus for the Year ; 
 Table of Marks ; Syllabus of Course of Study ; Leave and 
 Pension Rules of Indian Service ; Class and Prize Lists ; Past 
 Students serving in India ; Entrance Examination Papers, &c. 
 
 Corbet (M. E.) A Pleasnre Trip to India, during the Visit 
 of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, and afterwards to Ceylon. 
 By Mrs. Corbet. Illustrated with Photos. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. 
 
 Crosland (Mrs. N.) Stories of the City of London ; Retold 
 for Youthful Readers. By Mrs. Newton Crosland. With ten 
 Illustrations. Cr. 8vo. 6s. 
 These Stories range from the early days of Old London Bridge and th« 
 
 Settlement of the Knights Templars in England to the time of the Gordon 
 
 Riots ; with incidents in the Life of Brunei in relation to the Thames 
 
 Tunnel ; narrated Irom Personal recollections. 
 
 Crnise of H.M.S. "Galatea," 
 
 Captain H.R.H.the Duke of Edinburgh, K.G.,in 1867—1868. 
 By the Rev. John Milker, B.A., Chaplain ; and Oswald W. 
 Brierly. Illustrated by a Photograph of H.R.H. the Duke 
 of Edinburgh ; and by Chromo-Lithographs and Graphotypes 
 from Sketches taken on the spot by 0. W. Brierly. 8vo. 16s. 
 
 Cunningham (H. S.) British India, and its Enlers. 
 
 By H. S. Cunningham, M.A., one of the Judges of theHig h 
 Court of Calcutta, and late Member of the Famine Commis- 
 sion. 10s. 6d. 
 
 Danmas (E.) Horses of the Sahara, and the Manners of the 
 
 Desert. By E. Daumas, General of the Division Commanding 
 at Bordeaux, Senator, &c, &c. With Commentaries by the 
 Emir Abd-el-Kadir (Authorized Edition). 8vo. 6s. 
 
 " We have rarely read a work giving a more picturesque and, at the 
 same time, practical account of the manners and customs of a people, than 
 this book on the Arabs and their horses." — Edinburgh Courant. 
 
 Deighton (K.) Shakespeare's King Henry the Fifth. 
 
 With Notes and an Introduction. By K. Deighton, Principal 
 of Agra College. Crown 8vo. 5s. 
 
 Destruction of Life by Snakes, Hydrophobia, &c., in Western 
 India. By an Ex-Commissioner. Fcap. 2s. 6d. 
 
 Dickins, (F. V.) Chiushingura : or the Loyal League. 
 
 A Japanese Romance. Translated by Frederick V. Dickinb, 
 Sc.B., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law. With Notes 
 
10 W. H. Allen & Co. 
 
 and an Appendix containing a Metrical Version of the Ballad 
 of Takasako, and a specimen of the Original Text in Japanese 
 character. Illustrated by numerous Engravings on Wood, 
 drawn and executed by Japanese artists and printed on 
 Japanese paper. 8vo. 10s. 6d. 
 
 Doran (Dr. J.) " Their Majesties Servants" : 
 
 Annals of the English Stage. Actors, Authors, and Audiences 
 From Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean. By Dr. Doran, 
 F.S.A., Author of "Table Traits," "Lives of the Queens of 
 England of the House of Hanover." &c. Post 8vo. 6s. 
 " Every page of the work is barbed with wit, and will make its way 
 
 point foremost provides entertainment for the most diverst 
 
 tastes." — Daily News. 
 
 Drury (Col. H.) The Useful Plants of India, 
 
 With Notices of their chief value in Commerce, Medicine, 
 and the Arts. By Colonel Heber Drury. Second Edition, 
 with Additions and Corrections. Royal 8vo. 16s. 
 
 Dwight (H. 0.) Turkish Life in War Time. 
 
 By Henry 0. Dwight. Crown 8vo. l*2s. 
 
 Edwards (G. Sutherland) A Female Nihilist. 
 
 By Ernest Lavigne. Translated from the French by G. 
 Sutherland Edwards. Crown 8vo. 9s. 
 
 Edwards (H. S.) The Lyrical Drama: Essays on Subjects, 
 Composers, and Executants of Modern Opera. By H. Suther- 
 land Edwards, Author of " The Russians at Home and 
 Abroad/' &c. Two vols. Crown 8vo. 21s. 
 
 The Russians At Home and the Russians Abroad. 
 
 Sketches, Unpolitical and Political, of Eussian Life under 
 Alexander II. By H. Sutherland Edwards. 2 vols. Crown 
 8vo. 21s. 
 
 Ensor (F. Sydney) Incidents of a Journey through Hubia 
 to Darfoor. By F. Sydney Ensob, C.E. 10s. 6d. 
 
 The Queen's Speeches in Parliament. 
 
 Edited by F. Sydney Ensob, Author of " From Nubia to 
 Darfoor." Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. 
 
 Eyre, (Major-General Sir V.), K.C.S.I., C.B. The Kabul In- 
 surrection of 1841-42. Eevised and corrected from Lieut. 
 Eyre's Original Manuscript. Edited by Colonel G. B. 
 Malleson, C.S.I. Crown 8vo., with Map and Illustra- 
 tions. 9s. 
 
13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 11 
 
 Fearon (A.) Kenneth Trelawny. 
 
 By Alec Fearon. Author of " Touch not the Nettle." 
 2 vols. Crown 8yo. 21s. 
 
 Forbes (Capt. Q. J. F. S.) Comparative Grammar of the 
 Languages of Further India. A Fragment; and other Essays, 
 the Literary Remains of Captain C. J. F. S. Forbes, of the 
 British Burma Commission. Author of " British Burma and 
 its People : Sketches of Native Manners, Customs, and Reli- 
 gion/' 6s. 
 
 Fraser (Lieut.-Col. G. T.) Records of Sport and Military 
 Life in Western India. By the late Lieut.-Colonel G. T. 
 Fraser, formerly of the 1st Bombay Fusiliers, and more re- 
 cently attached to the Staff of H.M ,'s Indian Army. With 
 an Introduction by Colonel G. B. Malleson, C.S.I. 7s. 6d. 
 
 Garrick (H. B. W.) Mansukhi and Sundar Singh. 
 
 A Hindu Tale. Hindustani and English. With 24 Illustra- 
 tions. By H. B. W. Garrick. 4to. Is. 6d. 
 
 Gazetteers of India. 
 
 Thornton, 4 vols., 8vo. £2 16s. 
 8vo. 21s. 
 (N.W.P., &c.) 2 vols., 8to. 25s. 
 
 Gazetteer of Southern India. 
 
 With the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore. Compiled 
 from original and authentic sources. Accompanied by an 
 Atlas, including plans of all the principal towns and canton- 
 ments. Royal 8vo. with 4to. Atlas. £3 3s. 
 
 Geography of India. 
 
 Comprising an account of British India, and the various states 
 enclosed and adjoining. Fcap. pp. 250. 2s. 
 
 Geological Papers on Western India. 
 
 Including Cutch, Scinde, and the south-east coast of Arabia, 
 To which is added a Summary of the Geology of India gene- 
 rally. Edited for the Government by Henry J. Carter, 
 Assistant Surgeon, Bombay Army. Royal 8vo. with folio 
 Atlas of maps and plates ; half-bound. £2 2s. 
 
 Gillmore (Parker) Encounters with Wild Beasts. 
 
 By Parker Gillmore, Author of "The Great Thirst 
 Land," "A Ride Through Hostile Africa," &c. With Ten 
 full-page Illustrations. Cr. 8vo. 7s. 6d. 
 
 Prairie and Forest. A description of the Game of 
 
 North America, with Personal Adventures in its Pursuit 
 Bj Parker Gillmore (Ubique). With Thirty-Seven 
 Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. 
 
WI H. Allen & Co., 
 
 Glyn (A. C.) History of Civilization in the Fifth Century. 
 
 Translated by permission from the French of A. Frederic 
 Ozanam, late Professor of Foreign Literature to the Faculty 
 of Letters at Paris. By Ashby C. Glyn, B.A., of the Inner 
 Temple, Barrister-at-Law. 2 vols., post 8vo. £1 ]s. 
 
 Golclstucker (Prof. Theodore), The late. The Literary Re- 
 mains of. With a Memoir. 2 vols. 8vo. 21s. 
 Graham (Alex.) Genealogical and Chronological Tahles, 
 
 illustrative of Indian History. 4to. 5s. 
 
 Grant (Jas.) Derval Hampton : A Story of the Sea. 
 
 By James Grant, Author of the u Romance of War," &c. 
 WdIs. Crown 8vo. 2 Is. 
 Greene (F. V.) The Russian Army and its Campaigns in 
 
 Turkey in 1877-1878. By F V. Greene, First Lieutenant 
 in the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, and lately Military 
 Attache to the United States Legation at St. Petersburg. 8vo. 
 With Atlas. 32s. Second Edition. 
 
 Sketches of Army Life in Russia. 
 
 Crown 8vo. 
 Griffith (Ralph T. H.) Birth of the War God. 
 
 A Poem. By Kalidasa. Translated from the Sanscrit into 
 English Verse. By Ralph T. H. Griffith. 8vo. 5s. 
 
 Hall (E. H.) Lands of Plenty, for Health, Sport, and Profit 
 
 British North America. A Book for all Travellers and 
 Settlers. By E. Hepi?le Hall, F.S.S. Crown 8vo., with 
 Maps. 6s. 
 
 Hall's Trigonometry. 
 
 The Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. With an 
 Appendix, containing the solution of the Problems in Nautical 
 Astronomy. For the use of Schools. By the Rev. T. G. 
 Hall, M.A., Professor of Mathematics in King's College, 
 London. 12mo. 2s. 
 
 Hancock (E. C.) The Amateur Pottery and Glass Painter. 
 
 With Directions for Gilding, Chasing, Burnishing, Bronzing, 
 and Groundlaying By E. Campbell Hancock. Illustrated 
 with Chromo-Lithographs and numerous Woodcuts. Fourth 
 Edition. 8vo. 6s. 
 
 Copies for China Painters. 
 
 By E. Campbell Hancock. With Fourteen Chromo-Litho- 
 graphs and other Illustrations. 8vo. 10s. 
 
13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 15 
 
 Handbook of Reference to the Maps of India. 
 
 Giving the Lat. and Long, of places of note. 18mo. 3s. 6d. 
 
 %* Thiiwill be found a valuable Companion to Messrs. Allen Sc Cos* 
 
 Maps of India. 
 
 Harconrt (Maj. A. F. P.) Down by the Drawle. 
 
 By Major A. F. P. Harcourt, Bengal Staff Corps, author of 
 " Kooloo, Lahoul, and Spiti," " The Shakespeare Argosy,* &c. 
 2 Vols, in one, crown 8vo. 6s. 
 Helmes (Ludwig Verner) Pioneering in the Far East, and 
 Journeys to California in 1849, and to the White Sea in 
 1878. By Ltjdwig Verner Helmes. With Illustrations 
 from original Sketches and Photographs, and Maps. 8vo. 
 18s. 
 Hensman (Howard) The Afghan War, 1879-80. 
 
 Being a complete Narrative of the Capture of Cabul, the Siege 
 of Sherpur, the Battle of Ahmed Khel, the brilliant March to 
 Candahar, and- the Defeat of Ayub Khan, with the Operations 
 on the Helmund, and the Settlement with Abdur Rahman 
 Khan. By Howard Hensman, Special Correspondent of the 
 "Pioneer" (Allahabad) and the "Daily News" (London). 
 8vo. With Maps. Jils. 
 
 General Sir Frederick Roberts writes in regard to the 
 letters now re-published : — 
 " Allow me to congratulate you most cordially on the admirable man- 
 ner in which you hare placed before the public the account of our march 
 from Cabul, and the operations of 31st August and 1st September around 
 Candahar. Nothing could be more accurate or graphic. I thought your 
 description of the fight at Charasai was one that any soldier might have 
 been proud of writing j but your recent letters are, if possible, even better." 
 
 Holden (E. S.) Sir William Herschel. His Life and Works. 
 
 By Edward S. Holden, United States Naval Observatory 
 
 Washington. Cr. 8vo. 6s. 
 Holland. 
 
 By Edmondo de Amicis. Translated from the Italian by 
 
 Caroline Tilton. Crown 8vo. 10s. 6d. 
 Hongh (Lient.-Col. W.) Precedents in Military Law. 
 
 8vo. cloth. 25s 
 Hughes (Rev. T. P.) Notes on Muhammadanism. 
 
 Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. 
 Hntton (J.) Thugs and Dacoits of India. 
 
 A Popular Account of the Thugs and Dacoits, the Hereditary 
 
 Garotters and Gang Robbers of India. By James Hutton. 
 
 Post 8vo. 5s. 
 
14 W. H. Allen & Co, 
 
 India Directory (The). 
 
 For the Guidance of Commanders of Steamers and Sailing 
 Vessels. Founded upon the Work of the late Captain James 
 
 HORSBDEGH, F.R.S. 
 
 Part I. — The East Indies, and Interjacent Ports of Africa 
 and South America. Revised, Extended, and Illustrated with 
 Charts of Winds, Currents, Passages, Variation, and Tides. 
 Bj Commander Alfred Dundas Taylor, F.R.G.S., Superin- 
 tendent of Marine Surveys to the Government of India. £1 18s. 
 Part II. — The China Sea, with the Ports of Java, Australia 
 and Japan and the Indian Archipelago Harbours, as well as 
 those of New Zealand. Illustrated with Charts of the Winds, 
 Currents, Passages, &c. By the same. (In preparation.) 
 Indian and Military Law. 
 
 Mahommedan Law of Inheritance, &c. A Manual of the 
 Mahommedan Law of Inheritance and Contract ; comprising the 
 Doctrine of the Soonee and Sheca Schools, and based upon the text 
 of Sir H. W. Maonaghten's Principles and Precedents, together 
 with the Decisions of the Privy Council and High Courts of the 
 Presidencies in India. For the use of Schools and Students. By 
 Standibh Grove G-rady, Barrister-at-Law, Reader of Hindoo, 
 Mahommedan, and Indian Law to the Inns of Court. 8vo. 14s. 
 Hedaya, or Guide, a Commentary on the Mussulman Laws, 
 translated by order of the Grovernor- General and Council of Bengal. 
 By Charles Hamilton. Second Edition, with Preface and Index 
 by Standibh Grove Grady. 8vo. £1 15s. 
 
 Institutes of Menu in English. The Institutes of Hindu 
 Law or the Ordinances of Menu, according to Gloss of Collucca. 
 Comprising the Indian System of Duties, Eeligious and Civil, 
 verbally translated from the Original, with a Preface by Sir William 
 Jones, and collated with the Sanscrit Text by Graves Chamney 
 Hattghton, M.A., E.K.S., Professor of Hindu Literature in the 
 East India College. New edition, with Preface and Index by 
 Standibh G. Grady, Barrister-at-Law, and Eeader of Hindu, 
 Mahommedan, and Indian Law to the Inns of Court. 8vo., cloth. 12s. 
 
 Indian Code of Criminal Procedure. Being Act X. of 1872, 
 Passed by the Governor- General of India in Council on the 25th of 
 April, 1872. 8vo. 12s. 
 
 Indian Code of Civil Procedure. Being Act X. of 1877. 8vo. 
 
 6s. 
 Indian Code of Civil Procedure. In the form of Questions 
 
 and Answers, with Explanatory and Illustrative Notes. By 
 
 Angelo J. Lewis, Barrister-at-law. 12mo. 12s. 6d. 
 Indian Penal Code. In the Form of Questions and Answers. 
 
 With Explanatory and Illustrative Notes. By Angel*) J. Lewis, 
 
 Barrister-at-Law. Post 8vo. 7s. 6d. 
 
13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, 15 
 
 Hindu Law. Defence of the Day a Bhaga. Notice of the 
 Case on Prosoono Coornar Tajore's Will. Judgment of the Judicial 
 Committee of the Privy Council. Examination of such Judgment. 
 By John Cooheane, Barrister-at-Law. Royal 8to. 20s. 
 
 Law and Customs of Hindu Castes, within the Dekhan Pro- 
 vinces subject to the Presidency of Bombay, chiefly affecting Civil 
 Suits. By Abthttb Stiili. Royal 8vo. £1 Is. 
 
 Moohummudan Law of Inheritance. (Se<s page 29.) 
 
 Chart of Hindu Inheritance. With an Explanatory Treatise, 
 
 By Almaeic Rumset. 8vo. 6s. 6d. 
 Manual of Military Law. For all ranks of the Army, Militia 
 and Volunteer Services. By Colonel J. K. Pipon, Assist. Adjutant 
 General at Head Quarters, & J. F. Colliee, Esq., of the Inner 
 Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Third and Revised Edition. Pocket 
 size. 5s. 
 
 Precedents in Military Law ; including the Practice of Courts- 
 Martial ; the Mode of Conducting Trials ; the Duties of Officers at 
 Military Courts of Inquests, Courts of Inquiry, Courts of Requests, 
 &c., &c. The following are a portion of the Contents :— 
 
 1. Military Law. 2. Martial Law. 3. Courts -Martial. 4. 
 Courts of Inquiry. 5. Courts of Inquest. 6. Courts of Request. 
 7. Forms of Courts-Martial. 8. Precedents of Military Law. 
 9. Trials of Arson to Rape (Alphabetically arranged.) 10. Rebellions. 
 11. Riots. 12. Miscellaneous. By Lieut.-Col. W. Hough, lat* 
 Deputy Judge-Advocate-G-eneral, Bengal Army, and Author of 
 several Works on Courts-Martial. One thick 8vo. vol. 25s. 
 
 The Practice of Courts Martial. By Hough & Long. Thick 8vo. 
 London, 1825. 26s. 
 
 Indian Criminal Law and Procedure, 
 
 Including the Procedure in the High Courts, as well as that in 
 the Courts not established by Koyal Charter ; with Forms of 
 Charges and Notes on Evidence, illustrated by a large number 
 of English Cases, and Cases decided in the High Courts of 
 India; and an Appendix of selected Acts passed by the 
 Legislative Council relating to Criminal matters. By M. H. 
 Starling, Esq., LL.B. & F. B. Constable, M.A. Third 
 edition. 8vo. £2 2s. 
 
 Indian Infanticide. 
 
 Its Origin, Progress, and Suppression. By John Cave-Brown, 
 M.A. 8vo. 5s. 
 
 Irwin (H. C.) The Garden of India ; or, Chapters on Oudh 
 History and Affairs. By H. C. Irwin, B.A. Oxon., Bengal 
 Civil Service. 8vo. 12s. 
 
 Jackson (Lt.-Col. B.) Military Surveying, &c. 8vo. 14s. 
 (See page 24). 
 
16 W. H. Allen & Co.. 
 
 Jackson (Lowis D'A.) Hydraulic Manual and Workings 
 
 Tables, Hydraulic and Indian Meteorological Statistics, 
 Published under the patronage of the Right Honourable the 
 Secretary of State for India. By Lowis D'A. Jackson. 8to. 28s. 
 
 Canal and Culvert Tables. 
 
 Based on the Formula of Kutter, under a Modified Classi- 
 fication, with Explanatory Text and Examples. By Lowis 
 D'A. Jackson, A.M.I.C.E., author of " Hydraulic Manual 
 and Statistics," &c. Roy. 8vo. 28s. 
 
 Pocket Logarithms and other Tables for Ordinary 
 
 Calculations of Quantity, Cost, Interest, Annuities, Assur- 
 ance, and Angular Functions, obtaining Results correct in the 
 Fourth figure. By Lowis D'A. Jackson. Cloth, 2s. 6d. ; 
 leather, 3s. 6d. 
 
 Accented Four-Figure Logarithms, and other Tables, 
 
 For purposes both of Ordinary and of Trigonometrical Calcu- 
 lation, and for the Correction of Altitudes and Lunar Distances. 
 Arranged and accented by Lowis D'A. Jackson, A.M.I.C.E., 
 Author of " Canal and Culvert Tables," " Hydraulic Manual," 
 &c. Crown 8vo. 9s. 
 
 James (A. G. F. Eliot) Indian Industries. 
 
 By A. G. F. Eliot James, Author of " A Guide to Indian 
 
 Household Management," &e. Crown 8vo. 9s. 
 
 Contents : — Indian Agriculture ; Beer ; Cacao ; Carpets ; Cereals ; 
 
 Chemicals ; Cinchona ; Coffee ; Cotton ; Drugs ; Dyeing and Colouring 
 
 Materials ; Fibrous Substances ; Forestry ; Hides ; Skins and Horns ; 
 
 G-ums and Eesins ; Irrigation ; Ivory ; Mining ; Oils ; Opium ; Paper ; 
 
 Pottery ; Eyots ; Seeds ; Silk ; Spices ; Sugar ; Tea ; Tobacco ; Wood j 
 
 Wool. Table of Exports. Index. 
 
 Jerrold (Blanchard) at Home in Paris. 
 
 2 Vols. Post 8vo. 16s. 
 Joyner (Mrs.) Cyprns : Historical and Descriptive. 
 
 Adapted from the Grerman of Herr Franz Von Loher. With 
 much additional matter. By Mrs. A. Batson Joyner. 
 Crown 8vo. With 2 Maps. 10s. 6d. 
 Kaye (Sir J. W.) The Sepoy War in India. 
 
 A History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857—1858. By Sir 
 John William Kaye, Author of " The History of the War nx 
 Afghanistan." Vol. I., 8vo. 18s. Vol. II. £1. Vol. III. £1. 
 Contents of Vol. I. : — Book I. — Introductory. — The Con- 
 quest of the Punjab and Pegu. — The " Right of Lapse." — The 
 Annexation of Oude. — Progress of Englishism. Book II. — The- 
 Sepoy Army : its Rise, Progress, and Decline. — Early His- 
 
13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 17 
 
 tory of the Native Army. — Deteriorating Influences. — The 
 Sindh Mutinies. — The Punjaub Mutinies. Discipline of the 
 Bengal Army. Book III. — The Outbreak of the Mutiny. — 
 Lord Canning and his Council. — The Oude Administration and 
 the Persian War. — The Rising of the Storm. — The First 
 Mutiny. — Progress of Mutiny. — Excitement in Upper India. — 
 Bursting of the Storm. — Appendix. 
 
 Contents of Vol II.: — Book IV. — The Rising in the 
 North-west. — The Delhi History. — The Outbreak at Meerut. 
 — The Seizure of Delhi. — Calcutta in May. — Last Days of 
 General Anson. — The March upon Delhi. Book V. — Pro- 
 gress of Rebellion in Upper India. — Benares and Alla- 
 habad. — Cawnpore. — The March to Cawnpore. — Re-occupation 
 of Cawnpore. Book VI. — The Punjab and Delhi. — First 
 Conflicts in the Punjab. — Peshawur and Rawul Pinder. — Pro- 
 gress of Events in the Punjab. — Delhi. — First Weeks of the 
 Siege. — Progress of the Siege. — The Last Succours from the 
 Punjab. 
 
 Contents of Vol III. : — Book VII. — Bengal, Behar, 
 and the North-west Provinces. — At the Seat of Govern- 
 ment. — The Insurrection in Behar. — The Siege of Arrah. — 
 Behar and Bengal. Book VIII. — Mutiny and Rebellion 
 in the North-west Provinces. — Agra in May. — Insurrec- 
 tion in the Districts. — Bearing of the Native Chiefs. — Agra in 
 June, July, August and September. Book IX. — Lucknow 
 and Delhi. — Rebellion in Oude. — Revolt in the Districts. — 
 Lucknow in June and July. — The siege and Capture of Delhi. 
 (For continuation, see "History of the Indian Mutiny," by 
 Colonel G. B. Malleson, p. 19.) 
 
 Kaye (Sir J. W.) History of the War in Afghanistan. 
 New edition. 3 Vols. Crown 8vo. £1. 6s. 
 
 H. St. G. Tncker's Life and Correspondence. 8vo. 10s. 
 
 Memorials of Indian Governments. 
 
 By H. St. George Tucker. 8vo. 10s. 
 
 Keatinge (Mrs.) English Homes in India. 
 
 By Mrs. Keatinge. Part I. — The Three Loves. Part II. — 
 The Wrong Turning. Two vols., Post 8vo. 16s. 
 
 Keene (H. G.) Mognl Empire. 
 
 From the death of Aurungzeb to the overthrow of the Mahratta 
 Power, by Henry George Keene, B.C.S. Second edition. 
 With Map. 8vo. 10s. 6d. 
 
 This Work Jills up a blank between the ending of Elphinstone's 
 and the commencement of Thorntons Histories, 
 
18 W. H. Allen & Co., 
 
 Keene (H. &). Administration in India. 
 
 Post 8vo. 5s. 
 Peepul Leaves. 
 
 Poems written in India. Post 8vo 5s. 
 
 The Turks in India. 
 
 Historical Chapters on the Administration of Hindostan by 
 the Chugtai Tartar, Babar, and his Descendants. 12s. 6d. 
 Latham (Dr. R. G.) Russian and Turk, 
 
 From a Geographical, Ethnological, and Historical Point of 
 View. 8vo 1 8s. 
 
 Laurie (Col. W. F. B.) Our Burmese Wars and Relations 
 
 with Burma. With a Summary of Events from 1826 to 
 1 879, including a Sketch of King Theebau's Progress. With 
 various Local, Statistical, and Commercial Information. By 
 Colonel W. F. B. Laurie, Author of " Rangoon," "Narrative 
 of the Second Burmese War," &c. 8vo. With Plans and Map. 
 16s. 
 
 Ashe Pyee, the Superior Country ; or the great attrac- 
 tions of Burma to British Enterprise and Commerce. By 
 Col. W. F. B. Laurie, Author of " Our Burmese Wars 
 and Relations with Burma." Crown 8vo. 5s. 
 
 Lee (F. G.) The Church under Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 An Historical Sketch. By the Rev. F. G. Lee, D.D. Two 
 Vols., Crown 8vo. 21s. 
 
 Reginald Barentyne; or Liberty Without Limit. A 
 
 Tale of the Times. By Frederick George Lee. With 
 Portrait of the Author. Crown 8vo. 10s. 6d. 
 
 The Words from the Cross: Seven Sermons for Lent, 
 
 Passion-Tide, and Holy Week. By the Eev. F. G. Lee, D.D. 
 Third Edition revised. Fcap. 3s. 6d. 
 — Order Out of Chaos. Two Sermons. 
 
 By the Rev. Frederick George Lee, D.D. Fcap. 2s. 6d. 
 
 Lee's (Dr. W. N.) Drain of Silver to the East. 
 
 Post 8vo. 8s. 
 Le Messurier (Maj. A.) Kandahar in 1879. 
 
 Being the Diary of Major A. Le Messurier, R.E., Brigade 
 Major R.E. with the Quetta Column. Crown 8vo. 8s. 
 Lewin (T. H.) Wild Races of the South Eastern Frontier of 
 India. Including an Account of the Loshai Country. By Capt. 
 T. H. Lewin, Dep. Comm. of Hill Tracts. Post 8vo. 10s. 6d. 
 
13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 19 
 
 Lewis (A. J.) Indian Penal Code. 
 
 In the Form oi" Questions and Answers. With Explanatory 
 and Illustrative Notes. BvAngelo J. Lewis. Post 8vo. 7s tid. 
 
 Indian Code of Civil Procedure. 
 
 In the Form of Questions and Answers. With Explanatory 
 and Illustrative Notes. By Angelo J.Lewis. Post8vo. 12s. fid. 
 
 Liancourt's and Pincott's Primitive and Universal Laws of 
 the Formation and development of language ; a Rational and 
 Inductive System founded on the Natural Basis of Onomatops. 
 8vo. 12s. 6d. 
 
 Lloyd (J. S.) Shadows of the Past. 
 
 Being the Autobiography of General Kenyon. Edited by 
 J. S. Lloyd, Authoress of " Euth Everingham," " The 
 Silent Shadow," <fcc. Crown 8vo. 9s. 
 
 Lockwood (Ed.) Natural History, Sport and Travel. 
 
 By Edward Lockwood, Bengal Civil Service, late Magistrate 
 of Mong.hyr. Crown 8vo. With numerous Illustrations. 9s. 
 
 Lovell (Vice-Adm.) Personal Narrative of Events from 
 1799 to 1815. With Anecdotes. By the late Vice-Adm. Wm. 
 Stanhope Lovell, R.N. , K.H. Second edition. Crown 8vo. 4s. 
 
 Lupton (J. I.) The Horse, as he Was, as he Is, and as he 
 Ought to Be. By James Irvine Lupton, F.H.C.V.S., Author 
 of " The External Anatomy of the Horse," &c. &c. Illus- 
 trated. 3s. 6d. 
 
 MacGregor (Col. C. M.) Narrative of a Jonrney through 
 the Province of Khorassan and on the N. W. Frontier of 
 Afghanistan in 1875. By Colonel C. M. MacG-regor, 
 C.S.I., CLE., Bengal Staff Corps. -2 vols. 8vo. With 
 map and numerous illustrations. 30s. 
 
 Mackay (C.) Luck, and what came of it. A Tale of our 
 Times. By Charles Mackay, LL.D. Three vols. 31s. 6d. 
 
 Maggs (J.) Round Europe with the Crowd. 
 Crown 8vo. 5s. 
 
 Magenis (Lady Louisa) The Challenge of Barletta. By Mas- 
 simo D'Azeglio. Rendered into English by Lady Louisa 
 Magenis. '2 vols., crown 8vo. 21s. 
 
 Malleson (Col. G. B.) Final French Struggles in India 
 and on the Indian Seas. Including an Account of the 
 Capture of the Isles of France and Bourbon, and Sketches 
 of the most eminent Foreign Adventurers in India up to 
 the period of that Capture. With an Appendix containing 
 an Account of the Expedition from India to Egypt in J 801. 
 By Colonel G. B. Malleson, C.S.I. Crown 8vc. 10s. 6d. 
 
SO W. H, Allen & Co., 
 
 Malleson (Col. G. B.) History of the Indian Mutiny, 
 
 1857-1858, commencing from the close of the Second 
 Volume of Sir John Kaye's History of the Sepoy War. 
 Vol.1. 8vo. With Map. 20s. 
 
 Contents. — Calcutta in May and June. — William Tayler 
 and Vincent Eyre. — How Bihar and Calcutta were saved. — 
 Mr. Colvin and Agra. — Jhansi and Bandalkhand. — Colonel 
 Durand and Holkar. — Sir George Lawrence and Rajputana. — 
 Brigadier Polwhele's great battle and its results. — Bareli, 
 Rohilkhand, and Farakhabad. — The relation of the annexa- 
 tion of Oudh to the Mutiny. — Sir Henry Lawrence and the 
 Mutiny in Oudh. — The siege of Lakhnao.— The first relief of 
 Lakhnao. 
 
 Vol. II. — The Storming of Delhi, the Eelief of Luck- 
 now, the Two Battles of Cawnpore, the Campaign in 
 Eohilkhand, and the movements of the several Columns 
 in the N.W. Provinces, the Azimgurh District, and on the 
 Eastern and South- Eastern Frontiers. 8vo. With 4 Plans. 
 20s. 
 
 Vol. III. — Bombay in 1857. Lord Elphinstone. March 
 of Woodburn's Column. Mr. Seton-Karr and the Southern 
 Maratha Country. Mr. Forjett and Bombay. Asirgarh. Sir 
 Henry Durand. March of Stuart's Column. Holkar and Durand. 
 Malwa Campaign. Haidarabad.. Major C. Davidson and Salar 
 Jang. Sagar and Narbadi Territory. Sir Robert Hamilton and 
 Sir Hugh Rose. Central India Campaign. Whitlock and Kirwi. 
 Sir Hugh Rose and Gwaliar. Le Grand Jacob and Western 
 India. Lord Canning's' Oudh policy. Last Campaign in, and 
 pacification of, Oudh. Sir Robert Napier, Smith, Michell, and 
 Tantia Topi. Civil Districts during the Mutiny. Minor 
 Actions at Out-stations. Conclusion. 8vo. With Plans. 20s. 
 History of Afghanistan, from the Earliest Period to 
 
 the Outbreak of the War of 1878. 8vo. Second Edition. 
 With Map. 18s. 
 
 Herat: The Garden and Granary of Central Asia. 
 
 With Map and Index. 8vo. 
 
 Manning (Mrs.) Ancient and Mediaeval India. 
 
 Being the History, Religion, Laws, Caste, Manners and 
 Customs, Language, Literature, Poetry, Philosophy, Astronomy, 
 Algebra, Medicine, Architecture, Manufactures, Commerce, 
 &c, of the Hindus, taken from their writings. Amongst the 
 works consulted and gleaned from may be named the Rig Veda, 
 
13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 31 
 
 Sama Veda, Yajur Veda, Sathapatha Brahmana, Bhagavat 
 Gita, The Puranas, Code of Manu, Code of Yajnavalkya, 
 Mitakshara, Daya Bhaga, Mahabharata, Atriya, Charaka, 
 Susruta, Ramayana, Eaghu Vansa, Bhattikavya, Sakuntala, 
 Vikramorvasi, Malati and Madhava, Mudra Rakshasa, Ratna- 
 vali- Kumara Sambhava, Prabodha, Chandrodaya, Megha Duta, 
 Gita Govinda. Panchatantra, Hitopadesa, Katha Sarit, Sagara, 
 Ketala, Pancnavmsati, Dasa Kumara Charita, &c." By Mrs. 
 Manning, with Illustrations. 2 vols., Svo. 30s. 
 
 Marvin (Chas.) Merv, the Queen of the World and the Scourge 
 of the Men-stealing Turcomans. By Charles Marvin, author 
 of " The Disastrous Turcoman Campaign," and " GrodekofT's 
 Ride to Herat." With Portraits and Maps. Svo. 18s. 
 
 Colonel GrodekofFs Ride from Samarcand to Herat, 
 
 through Balkh and the Uzbek States of Afghan Turkestan. 
 With his own March-route from the Oxus to Herat. By 
 Charles Marvin. Crown 8vo. With Portrait. 8s. 
 
 The Eye-Witnesses' Account of the Disastrous Russian 
 
 Campaign against the Akhal Tekke Turcomans : Describing 
 the March across the Burning Desert, the Storming of Den- 
 geel Tepe, and the Disastrous Retreat to the Caspian. By 
 Charles Marvin. With numerous Maps and Plans. 8vo. 
 18s. 
 Matson (Nellie) Hilda Desmond, or Riches and Poverty. 
 
 Crown 8vo. 10s. 6d. 
 Mayhew (Edward) Illustrated Horse Doctor. 
 
 Being an Accurate and Detailed . Account, accompanied by 
 more than 400 Pictorial Representations, characteristic of the 
 various Diseases to which the Equine Race are subjected; 
 together with the latest Mode of Treatment, and all the re- 
 quisite Prescriptions written in Plain English By Edward 
 Mayhew, M.R.C.V.S. 8vo. 18s. 6d. 
 
 Contents. — The Brain and Nervous System. — The Eyes.— 
 The Mouth.— The Nostrils.— The Throat.— The Chest and its 
 contents. — The Stomach, Liver, &c. — The Abdomen. — The 
 Urinary Organs. — The Skin. — Specific Diseases. — Limbs - 
 The Feet. — Injuries. — Operations. 
 
 "The book contains nearly 600 pages of valuable matter, which 
 reflects great credit on its author, and, owing to its practical details, the 
 result of deep scientific research, deserves a place in the library of medical, 
 veterinary, and non-professional readers." — Field. 
 
 " The book furnishes at once the bane and the antidote, as t he 
 drawings show the horse not only suffering from every kind of disease, but 
 in the different stages of it, while the alphabetical summary at the end gives 
 the cause, symptoms and treatment of each." — Illustrated London News. 
 
22 W. H. Allen & Co., 
 
 Mayhew (Edward) Illustrated Horse Management. 
 
 Containing descriptive remarks upon Anatomy, Medicine, 
 Shoeing, Teeth, Food, Vices, Stables ; likewise a plain account 
 of the situation, nature, and value of the various points ; 
 together with comments on grooms, dealers, breeders, breakers, 
 and trainers ; Embellished with more than 400 engravings 
 from original designs made expressly for this work. By E. 
 Mayhew. A new Edition, revised and improved by J. 1. 
 Lupton. M.R.C.V.S. 8vo. 12s. 
 
 Contents. — The body of the horse anatomically considered. 
 Physic. — The mode of administering it, and minor operations. 
 Shoeing. — Its origin, its uses, and its varieties. The Teeth. 
 — Their natural growth, and the abuses to which they are liable. 
 Food. — The fittest, time for feeding, and the kind of food 
 which the horse naturally consumes. The evils which are 
 occasioned by modern stables. The faults inseparable from 
 stables. The so-called " incapacitating vices," which are the 
 results of injury or of disease. Stables as they should be. 
 Grooms. — Their prejudices, their injuries, and their duties. 
 Points. — Their relative importance and where to look for their 
 development. Breeding, — Its inconsistencies and its disap- 
 pointments. Breaking and Training. — Their errors and 
 their results. 
 
 Mayhew (Henry) German Life and Manners. 
 
 As seen in Saxony. With an account of Town Life — Village 
 Life — Fashionable Life — Married Life — School and University 
 Life, &c. Illustrated with Songs and Pictures of the Student 
 Customs at the University of Jena. By Henry Mayhew, 
 2 vols., 8vo., with numerous illustrations. 18s. 
 
 A Popular Edition of the above. With illustrations. Cr. 8vo. 7s. 
 " Full of original thought and observation, and may be studied with pro- 
 fit by both G-erman and English — especially by the G-erman." Athencewm. 
 
 McCarthy (T. A.) An Easy System of Calisthenics and 
 Drilling. Including Light Dumb-Bell and Indian Club 
 Exercises. By T. A. McCarthy, Chief Instructor at 
 Mr. Moss's Gymnasium, Brighton. Fcap. Is. 6d. 
 
 McCosh (J.) Advice to Officers in India. 
 By John McCosh, M.D. Post 8vo. 8s. 
 
 Meadow (T.) Notes on China. 
 
 Desultory Notes on the Government and People of China and 
 on the Chinese Language. By T. T. Meadows. 8vo. 9s. 
 
 Menzies (S.) Turkey Old and New : Historical, Geographical, 
 and Statistical. By Sutherland Menzies. With Map and 
 numerous Illustrations. 2 vols., 8vo. 32s. 
 
13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 33 
 
 Uilitary Works — chiefly issued by the Government. 
 
 Field Exercises and Evolutions of Infantry. Pocket edition, la. 
 
 Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Army. Corrected to 
 1881. 8vo. 3s. 6d. Interleaved, 5s. 6d. Pocket Edition, la. 6d. 
 
 Musketry Regulations, as used at Hythe. Is. 
 
 Dress Regulations for the Army. (Reprinting.) 
 
 Infantry Sword Exercise. 1875. 6d. 
 
 Infantry Bugle Sounds. 6d. 
 
 Handbook of Battalion Drill. By Lieut. H. C. Slack. 2s ; 
 or with Company Drill, 2s. 6d. 
 
 Handbook of Brigade Drill. By Lieut. H. C. Slack. 3s. 
 
 Red Book for Sergeants. By William Bright, Colour- 
 Sergeant, 19th Middlesex R.V. Is. 
 
 Handbook of Company Drill ; also of Skirmishing, Battalion, 
 and Shelter Trench Drill. By Lieut. Charles Slack. Is. 
 
 Elementary and Battalion Drill. Condensed and Illustrated, 
 together with duties of Company Officers, Markers, &c., in Batta- 
 lion. By Captain Malton. 2s. 6d. 
 
 Cavalry Regulations. For the Instruction, Formations, and 
 Movements of Cavalry. Royal 8vo. 4s. 6d. 
 
 Manual of Artillery Exercises, 1873. 8vo. 5s. 
 
 Manual of Field Artillery Exercises. 1877. 3s. 
 
 Standing Orders for Royal Artillery. 8vo, 3s. 
 
 Principles and Practice of Modern Artillery. By Lt.-Col. C. 
 H. Owen, R.A. 8vo. Illustrated. 15s. 
 
 Artillerist's Manual and British Soldiers' Compendium. By 
 Major F. A. Griffiths. 11th Edition. 5s. 
 
 Compendium of Artillery Exercises — Smooth Bore, Field, and 
 Garrison Artillery for Reserve Forces. By Captain J. M. McKenzie. 
 3s. 6d. 
 
 Principles of Gunnery. By John T. Hyde, M.A., late Pro- 
 fessor of Fortification and Artillery, Royal Indian Military College, 
 Addiscombe. Second edition, revised and enlarged. With many 
 Plates and Cuts, and Photograph of Armstrong Gun. Royal 8vo. 
 14s. 
 
 Notes on Gunnery. By Captain Goodeve. Revised Edition. 
 Is. 
 
 Text Book of the Construction and Manufacture of Rifled 
 Ordnance in the British Service. By Stoney & Jones. Second 
 Edition. Paper, 3s. 6d., Cloth, 4s. 6d. 
 
 Treatise on Fortification and Artillery. By Major Hector 
 Stbaith. Revised and re-arranged by Thomas Cook, R.N., by 
 John T. Hyde, M.A. 7th Edition. Royal 8vo. Illustrated and 
 Four Hundred Plans, Cuts, &<y. £2 2s. 
 
 Elementary Principles of Fortification. A Text- Book for 
 Military Examinations. By J. T. Hyde, M.A. Royal 8vo. "With 
 numerous Plans and Illustrations. 10s. 6d. 
 
$4 W. H. Allen & Co., 
 
 Military Surveying and Field Sketching. The Various 
 Methods of Contouring, Levelling, Sketching without Instruments, 
 Scale of Shade, Examples in Military Drawing, &c, &c, &c. As at 
 present taught in the Military Colleges. By Major W. H. Richaeds, 
 55th Regiment, Chief G-arrison Instructor in India, Late Instruc- 
 tor in Military Surveying, Royal Military College, Sandhurst. 
 Second Edition, Revised and Corrected. 12s. 
 
 Treatise on Military Surveying ; including Sketching in the 
 Field, Plan-Drawing, Levelling, Military Reconnaissance, &c, By 
 Lieut.-Col. Basil Jackson, late of the Royal Staff Corps. The 
 Fifth Edition. 8vo. Illustrated by Plans, &c. 14s. 
 
 Instruction in Military Engineering. Vol. 1., Part III. 4 s. 
 
 Military Train Manual. Is. 
 
 The Sappers' Manual. Compiled for the use of Engineer 
 
 Volunteer Corps. By Col. W. A. Feankxand, R.E. With 
 
 numerous Illustrations. 2s. 
 
 Ammunition. A descriptive treatise on the different Projectiles 
 Charges, Fuzes, Rockets, &c, at present in use for Land and Sea- 
 Service, and on other war stores manufactured in the Royal 
 Laboratory. 6s. 
 
 Hand-book on the Manufacture and Proof of Gunpowder, as 
 carried on at the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey. 5g. 
 
 Regulations for the Training of Troops for service in the Field 
 and for the conduct of Peace Manoeuvres. 2s. 
 
 Hand-book Dictionary for the Militia and Volunteer Services, 
 Containing a variety of useful information, Alphabetically arranged. 
 Pocket size, 3s. 6d. ; by post, 3s. 8d. 
 
 Gymnastic Exercises, System of Fencing, and Exercises for 
 the Regulation Clubs. In one volume. Crown 8vo. 1877. 2s. 
 
 Text-Book on the Theory and Motion of Projectiles ; the His- 
 tory, Manufacture, and Explosive Force of G-unpowder ; the History 
 of Small Arms. For Officers sent to School of Musketry. Is. 6d. 
 
 Notes on Ammunition. 4th Edition. 1877. 2s. 6d. 
 
 Regulations and Instructions for Encampments. 6d. 
 
 Rules for the Conduct of the War Game. 2s. 
 
 Medical Regulations for the Army, Instructions for the Army, 
 Comprising duties of Officers, Attendants, and Nurses, &c. Is. 6d. 
 
 Purveyors' Regulations and Instructions, for Guidance of 
 Officers of Purveyors' Department of the Army. 3s. 
 
 Priced Vocabulary of Stores used in Her Majesty's Service. 4s. 
 
 Lectures on Tactics for Officers of the Army, Militia, and 
 Volunteers. By Major F. H. Dyke, Garrison Instructor, E.D.. 
 3s. 6d. 
 
 Transport of Sick and Wounded Troops. By Dr. Longmore. 5s. 
 
 Precedents in Military Law. By Lt-Col. W. Hough. 8vo. 25 s- 
 
 The Practice of Courts-Martial, by Hough & Long. 8vo. 26s», 
 
13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 25 
 
 Manual of Military Law. For all ranks of the Army, Militia, 
 and Volunteer Services. By Colonel J. K. Pipon, and J. P. Col- 
 UEB, Esq. Third and Eevised Edition. Pocket size. 5s. 
 
 Eegulations applicable to the European Officer in India. Con- 
 taining Staff Corps Rules, Staff Salaries, Commands, Furlough and 
 Retirement Regulations, &c. By G-eobge E. Cocheane, late 
 Assistant Military Secretary, India Office. 1 vol., post 8vo. 7s. 6d. 
 
 Keserve Force; Guide to Examinations, for the use of Captains 
 and Subalterns of Infantry, Militia, and Rifle Yolunteers, and for Ser- 
 jeants of Volunteers. By Capt. G-. H. G-eeaves. 2nd edit. 2s. 
 
 The Military Encyclopaedia ; referring exclusively to the 
 Military Sciences, Memoirs of distinguished Soldiers, and the Narra- 
 tives of Remarkable Battles. By J. H. Stocqtjelee. 8vo. 12s. 
 
 The Operations of War Explained and Illustrated. By Col. 
 Hamlet. New Edition Revised, with Plates. Royal 8vo. 30s. 
 
 Lessons of War. As taught by the Great Masters and Others ; 
 Selected and Arranged from the various operations in War. By 
 Peance James Soady, Lieut.-Col., R.A. Royal 8vo. 21s. 
 
 The Surgeon's Pocket Book, an Essay on the best Treatment of 
 Wounded in War. By Surgeon Major J . H. Poetee. 7s. 6d. 
 
 A Precis of Modern Tactics. By Colonel Home. 8vo. 8s. 6d. 
 
 Armed Strength of Austria. By Capt. Cooke. 2 pts. £1 2s. 
 
 Armed Strength of Denmark. 3s. 
 
 Armed Strength of Russia. Translated from the German. 7s. 
 
 Armed Strength of Sweden and Norway. 3s. 6d. 
 
 Armed Strength of Italy. 5s. 6d. 
 
 Armed Strength of Germany. Part I. 8s. 6d. 
 
 The Franco-German War of 1870—71. By Capt. C. H. 
 Claeee. Yol. I. £1 6s. Sixth Section. 5s. Seventh Section 
 6s. Eighth Section. 3s. Ninth Section. 4s. 6d. Tenth Section. 6s. 
 Eleventh Section. 5s. 3d. Twelfth Section. 4s. 6d. 
 
 The Campaign of J 866 in Germany. Royal 8vo. With Atlas, 21s. 
 
 Celebrated Naval and Military Trials. By Peter Burke. 
 Post 8vo., cloth. 10s. 6d. 
 
 Military Sketches. By Sir Lascelles Wraxall. Post 8vo. 6s. 
 
 Military Life of the Duke of Wellington. By Jackson and 
 Scott. 2 Vols. 8vo. Maps, Plans, &c. 12s. 
 
 Single Stick Exercise of the Aldershot Gymnasium. 6d. 
 
 Treatise on Military Carriages, and other Manufactures of the 
 Royal Carriage Department. 5s. 
 
 Steppe Campaign Lectures. 2s. 
 
 Manual of Instructions for Army Surgeons. Is. 
 
 Regulations for Army Hospital Corps. 9d. 
 
 Manual of Instructions for Non-Commissioned Officers, Army 
 Hospital Corps. 2s. 
 
 Handbook for Military Artificers. 3s. 
 
26 W. H. Allen & Co., 
 
 Instructions for the use of Auxiliary Cavalry. 2s. 6d. 
 
 Equipment Regulations for the Army. 5s. 6d. 
 
 Statute Law relating to the Army. Is. 3d. 
 
 Regulations for Commissariat and Ordnance Department 2s. 
 
 Regulations for the Commissariat Department. Is. 6d. 
 
 Regulations for the Ordnance Department. Is. 6d. 
 
 Artillerist's Handbook of Reference for the use of the Royal 
 
 and Eeserve Artillery, by Will and Dalton. 5s. 
 An Essay on the Principles and Construction of Military 
 
 Bridges, by Sib Howabd Douglas. 1853. 15s. 
 
 Mill's History of British India, 
 
 With Notes and Continuation. By H. H. Wilson. 9 vols, 
 cr. 8vo. £2 10s. 
 
 Mitchinson (A. W.) The Expiring Continent; A Narrative 
 of Travel in Senegambia, with Observations on Native 
 Character ; Present Condition and Future Prospects of Africa 
 and Colonisation. By Alex. Will. Mitchinson. With 
 Sixteen full-page Illustrations and Map. 8vo. 18s. 
 
 Mitford (Maj. R. C. W.) To Caubul with the Cavalry 
 Brigade. A Narrative of Personal Experiences with the 
 Force under General Sir F. S. Roberts, G.C.B. With Map 
 and Illustrations from Sketches by the Author. By Major R. 
 C. W. Mitford, 14th Beng. Lancers. 8vo. Second Edit. 9s. 
 
 Muller's (Max) Rig-Veda-Sanhita. 
 
 The Sacred Hymns of the Brahmins ; together with the 
 Commentary of Sayanacharya. Published under the Patron- 
 age of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for India in 
 Council. 6 vols., 4to. £2 10s. per volume. 
 
 Mysteries of the Vatican ; 
 
 Or Crimes of the Papacy. From the German of Dr. Theodore 
 Greisenger. 2 Vols, post 8vo. 21s. 
 
 Neville (Ralph) The Squire's Heir. 
 
 By Ralph Neville, Author of "Lloyd Pennant." Two 
 Vols. 21s. 
 
 Nicholson (Capt. H. W.) From Sword to Share ; or, a Fortune 
 in Five Years at Hawaii. By Capt. H. Whalley Nicholson. 
 Crown 8vo. With Map and Photographs. 12s. 6d. 
 
 Nirgis and Bismillah. 
 
 Nirgis; a Tale of the Indian Mutiny, from the Diary of a 
 Slave Girl : and Bismillah ; or, Happy Days in Cashmere. 
 By Hafiz Allard. Post 8vo. 10s. 6d. 
 
13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 27 
 
 Norris-Newman (C. I.) In Zululand with the British, 
 throughout the War of 1879. By Charles L. Norris- 
 Newman, Special Correspondent of the London " Standard," 
 Cape Town " Standard and Mail,'' and the " Times " of Natal. 
 With Plans and Four Portraits. 8vo. 16s. 
 
 With the Boers in the Transvaal and Orange Free 
 
 State in 1880-81. By C. L. Norris-Newman, Special 
 War Correspondent, Author of "In Zululand with the 
 British." 8vo. With Maps. 14s. 
 
 Notes on the North Western Provinces of India. 
 
 By a District Officer. 2nd Edition. Post 8vo., cloth. 5s. 
 
 Contents. — Area and Population. — Soils. — Crops. — Irriga- 
 tion. — Rent. — Rates. — Land Tenures. 
 O'Donoghue (Mrs. P.) Ladies on Horsehack. 
 
 Learning, Park Riding, and Hunting. With Notes upon Cos- 
 tume, and numerous Anecdotes. By Mrs. Power O'Donoghue, 
 Authoress of" The Knave of Clubs," " Horses and Horsemen," 
 " Grandfather's Hunter," " One in Ten Thousand," &c. &c. 
 Cr. 8vo. With Portrait. 5s. 
 
 Oldfield (H. A.) Sketches from Nipal, Historiral and Descrip- 
 tive ; with Anecdotes of the Court Life and Wild Sports of the 
 Country in the time of Maharaja Jang Bahadur, G.C.B. ; to 
 which is added an Essay on Nipalese Buddhism, and Illustra- 
 tions of Religious Monuments, Architecture, and Scenery, 
 from the Author's own Drawings. By the late Henry Am- 
 brose Oldfield, M.D., of H. M.'s Indian Army, many years 
 Resident at Khatmandu. Two vols. 8vo. 36s. 
 
 Old Stager (An) Private Theatricals. 
 
 Being a Practical Guide for the Home Stage, both before 
 and behind the Curtain. By An Old Stager. Illus- 
 trated with Suggestions for Scenes after designs by 
 Shirley Hodson. 
 
 Oliver (Capt. S. P.) On and Off Duty. 
 
 Being Leaves from an Officer's Note Book. Part I. — 
 Turania; Part II. — Lemuria; Part III. — Columbia. By 
 Captain S. P. Oliver. Crown 4to. With 38 Illustra- 
 tion s« 14s. 
 
 On Board a Union Steamer. 
 
 A compilation. By Captain S. P. Oliver. To which is 
 added "A Sketch Abroad," by Miss Doreton. 8vo. 
 With Frontispiece. 8s. 
 
28 W. H. Allen & Co., 
 
 Osborne (Mrs. W.) Pilgrimage to Mecca (A). 
 
 By the Nawab Sikandar Begum of Bhopal. Translated from 
 the Original Urdu. By Mrs. Willoughby Osborne. Followed 
 by a Sketch of the History of Bhopal. By Col. Willoughby- 
 Osborne, C.B. With Photographs, and dedicated, by permis- 
 sion, to Her Majesty, Queen Victoria. Post 8vo. £1. Is. 
 This is a highly important book, not only for its literary merit, and the 
 
 information it contains, but also from the fact of its being the first work 
 
 written by an Indian lady, and that lady a Queen. 
 
 Owen (Sidney) India on the Eve of the British Conquest. 
 A Historical Sketch. By Sidney Owen, M.A. Reader in 
 Indian Law and History in the University of Oxford. 
 Formerly Professor of History in the Elphinstone College, 
 Bombay. Post 8vo. 8s. 
 
 Oxenham (Rev. H. N.) Catholic Eschatology and TTniver- 
 salism. An Essay on the Doctrine of Future Retribution. ' 
 Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. 
 
 Catholic Doctrine of the Atonement. An Historical 
 
 Inquiry into its Development in the Church, with an Intro- 
 duction on the Principle of Theological Development. By 
 H. Nutcomee Oxenham, M.A. 3rd Edition and Enlarged. 
 8vo. 14s. 
 
 " It is one of the ablest and probably one of the most charmingly 
 
 written treatises on the subject which exists in our language." — Times. 
 
 The First Age of Christianity and the Church. 
 
 By John Ignatius Dollinger, D.D., Professor of Ecclesiastical 
 History in the University of Munich, &c, &c. Translated 
 from the German bv Henry Nutcombe Oxenham, M.A., late 
 Scholar of Baliol College, Oxford. Third Edition. 2 vols. 
 Crown 8vo. 18s. 
 
 Ozanam's (A. F.) Civilisation in the Fifth Century. From 
 the French. By The Hon. A. C. Glyn. 2 Vols., post 8vo. 21s. 
 
 Pebody (Charles) Authors at Work. 
 
 Francis Jeffrey — Sir Walter Scott — Robert Burns- — Charles 
 Lamb — R. B. Sheridan — Sydney Smith — Macaulay — Byron 
 Wordsworth — Tom Moore — Sir James Mackintosh. Post 8vo. 
 10s. 6d. 
 
 Pelly (Sir Lewis). The Miracle Play of Hasan and Husain. 
 Collected from Oral Tradition by Colonel Sir Lewis Pelly, 
 K.C.B., K.C.S.I., formerly serving in Persia as Secretary 
 of Legation, and Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. 
 Revised, with Explanatory Notes, by Arthur N. Wol- 
 laston, H.M. Indian (Home) Service, Translator of Anwar- 
 i-Suhaili, &c. 2 Yols. royal 8vo. 32s. 
 
13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 29 
 
 Pincott (F.) Analytical Index to Sir John Kaye's History 
 of the Sepoy War, and Col. G. B. Malleson's History 
 of the Indian Mutiny. (Combined in one volume.) By 
 Frederic Pincott, M.R.A.S. 8vo. 10s. 6d. 
 
 Pipon and Collier's Mannal of Military Law. 
 
 By Colonel J. K. Pipon, and J. F. Collier, Esq., of the 
 Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. 5s. 
 
 Pollock (Field Marshal Sir George) Life & Correspondence. 
 By C. R. Low. 8vo. With portrait. 18s. 
 
 Pope (G. U.) Text-book of Indian History ; with Geogra- 
 phical Notes, Genealogical Tables, Examination Questions, 
 and Chronological, Biographical, Geographical, and General 
 Indexes. For the use of Schools, Colleges, and Private Stu- 
 dents. By the Rev. G. U. Pope, D D., Principal of Bishop 
 Cotton's Grammar School and College, Bangalore ; Fellow of 
 the Madras University. Third Edition, thoroughly revised. 
 Fcap. 4to. 12s. 
 
 Practice of Conrts Martial. 
 
 By Hough & Long. 8vo. London. 1825. 26s. 
 
 Prichard's Chronicles of Budgepore, &c. 
 
 Or Sketches of Life in Upper India. 2 Vols., Foolscap 8vo. 12s. 
 
 Prinsep (H. T.) Historical Results. 
 
 Deducible from Recent Discoveries in Affghanistan. By H. 
 T Prinsep. 8vo. Lond. 1844. 15s. 
 
 Tibet, Tartary, and Mongolia. 
 
 By Henry T. Prinsep, Esq. Second edition. Post 8vo. 5s. 
 
 Political and Military Transactions in India. 
 
 2 Vols. 8vo. London, 1825. 18s. 
 
 Richards (Major W. H.) Military Surveying, &c. 
 
 12s. (See page 22.) 
 
 Rowe (R.) Picked up in the Streets ; or, Struggles for Life 
 among the London Poor. By Richard Rowe, " Good Words " 
 Commissioner, Author of "Jack Afloat and Ashore," &c 
 Crown 8vo. Illustrated. 6s. 
 
 Rumsey (Almaric) Moohummudan Law of Inheritance, and 
 
 Rights and Relations affecting it. Sunni Doctrine. Com- 
 prising, together with much collateral information, the sub- 
 stance, greatly expanded, of the authors " Chart of Family 
 Inheritance." By Almaric Rumsey, of Lincoln's Inn, Bar- 
 
30 W. H. Allen & Co., 
 
 rister-at-Law, Professor of Indian Jurisprudence at King's 
 College, London. Author of " A Chart of Hindu Family 
 Inheritance." 8vo. 12s. 
 
 Rumsey (Almaric) A Chart of Hindu Family Inheritance. 
 
 Second Edition, much enlarged. 8vo. 6s. 6d. 
 
 Sachau (Dr. C. Ed.) The Chronology of Ancient Nations. An 
 
 English Version of the Arabic Text of the Athar-ut Bakiya of 
 Albiruni, or "Vestiges of the Past." Collected and reduced 
 to writing by the Author in a.h. 390-1, a.d. 1,000. Trans- 
 lated and Edited, with Notes and Index, by Dr. C. Edward 
 Sachau, Professor in the Royal University of Berlin. Pub- 
 lished for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and 
 Ireland. Royal 8vo. 42s. 
 
 Sanderson (G. P.) Thirteen Years among the Wild 
 
 Beasts of India; their Haunts and Habits, from Personal 
 Observation ; with an account of the Modes of Capturing and 
 Taming Wild Elephants. By G. P. Sandehson, Officer in 
 Charge of the Government Elephant Keddahs at Mysore. 
 With 21 full page Illustrations and three Maps. Second 
 Edition. Fcp. 4to. £1 5s. 
 
 Sewell (R.) Analytical History of India. 
 
 From the earliest times to the Abolition of the East India 
 Company in 1858. By Robert Sewell, Madras Civil Service. 
 Post 8vo. 8s. 
 
 *** The object of this work is to supply the want which has 
 been felt by students for a condensed outline of Indian History 
 which would serve at once to recall the memory and guide the 
 eye, while at the same time it has been attempted to render it 
 interesting to the general reader by preserving a medium 
 between a bare analysis and a complete history. 
 
 Shadow of a Life (The) A Girl's Story. 
 
 By Beryl Hope. 3 vols., post 8vo. 31s. 6d. 
 
 Sherer (J. W.) The Conjuror's Daughter. 
 
 A Tale. By J. W. Sheker, C.S.I. With Illustrations by 
 Alf. T. Elwes and J. Jellicoe. Cr. 8vo. 6s. 
 
 Who is Mary ? 
 
 A Cabinet Novel, in one volume. By J. W. Sherer, Esq., 
 
 C.S.I. 10s. 6d. 
 Signor Monaldini's Niece. 
 
 A Novel of Italian Life. Crown 8vo. 6s. 
 
13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 3L 
 
 Simpson (H. T.) Archaeologia Adelensis; or, a History of the 
 Parish of Adel, in the West Biding of Yorkshire. Being 
 an attempt to delineate its Past and Present Associations, 
 Archaeological, Topographical, and Scriptural. By Henry 
 Traill Simpson, M.A., late Rector of Adel. With nu- 
 merous etchings by W. Lloyd Ferguson. Roy. 8vo. 21s. 
 
 Small (Rev. G.) A Dictionary of Naval Terms, English and 
 
 Hindustani. For the use of Nautical Men trading to India, 
 &c. By Rev. G. Small, Interpreter to the Strangers' Home 
 for Asiatics. Fcap. ^s. od. 
 
 Solymos (B.) Desert Life. Recollections of an Expedition 
 in the Soudan. By B. Solymos (B. E. Falkonberg), Civil 
 •Engineer. 8ro. 15 s. 
 
 Starling (M. H.) Indian Criminal Law and Procedure. 
 Third edition. 8vo. £3 2s. See page ] 5. 
 
 Steele (A.) Law and Customs of Hindu Castes. 
 
 Br Arthur Steele. Royal 8vo. £1. is. (See page 14.) 
 
 Stent (G. C.) Entombed Alive, 
 
 And other Songs and Ballads. (From the Chinese.) By 
 George Carter Stent, M.R.A.S., of the Chinese Imperial 
 Maritime Customs Service, author of ** Chinese and English 
 Vocabulary," " Chinese and English Pocket Dictionary," " The 
 Jade Chaplet," &c. Crown 8vo. With four Illustrations. 9s. 
 
 Stothard (R. T.) The A B C of Art. 
 
 Being a system of delineating forms and objects in nature ne- 
 cessary for the attainments of a draughtsman. By Robert T. 
 Stothard, F.S.A., late H.D.S.A. Fcap. Is. 
 
 Swinnerton (Rev. C.) The Afghan War. Go ugh 's Action at 
 Futtehabad. By the Rev. C. Swinnerton, Chaplain in the 
 Field with the First Division, Peshawur Valley Field Force. 
 With Frontispiece and Two Plans. Crown 8vo. 5s. 
 
 Tayler (W.) Thirty-eight Years in India, from Juganath 
 to the Himalaya Mountains. By William Tayler, Esq., 
 Retired B.C.S., late Commissioner of Patna. In 2 vols. 
 
 Contains a memoir of the life of Mr. William Tayler, from 
 1829 to 1867 — during the Government of eight Governors 
 General — from Lord William Bentinck to Lord Lawrence, 
 comprising numerous incidents and adventures, official, per- 
 sonal, tragic, and comic, " from grave to gay, from lively to 
 severe " throughout that period. The first volume contains 
 a hundred illustrations, reproduced by Mr. Tayler himself, 
 
82 W. H. Allen & Co. 
 
 from original sketches taken by him on the spot, in Bengal, 
 Behar, N.W. Provinces, Darjeeling, Nipal, and Simla. 
 Vol. I. 25s. (Vol. II. in the press). 
 
 Thomson's Lunar and Horary Tables. 
 
 For New and Concise Methods of Performing the Calculations 
 necessary for ascertaining the Longitude by Lunar Observa- 
 tions, or Chronometers ; with directions for acquiring a know- 
 ledge of the Principal Fixed Stars and finding the Latitude of 
 them. By David Thomson. Sixty-fifth edit. Boyal 8vo. ] Os. 
 
 Thornton (P. M.) Foreign Secretaries of the Nineteenth 
 Century. By Percy M. Thornton. 
 
 Contains — Memoirs of Lord Grenville, Lord Hawkesbury, 
 Lord Harrowby, Lord Mulgrave, C. J. Fox, Lord Howick, 
 George Canning, Lord Bathurst, Lord Wellesley (together 
 with estimate of his Indian Rule by Col. G. B. Malleson, 
 C.S.I.), Lord Castlereagh, Lord Dudley, Lord Aberdeen, and 
 Lord Palmerston. Also, Extracts from Lord Bexley's Papers, 
 including lithographed letters of Lords Castlereagh and Can- 
 ning, which, bearing on important points of public policy, 
 have never yet been published ; together with other important 
 information culled from private and other sources. With 
 Ten Portraits, and a View shewing Interior of the old Hous« 
 of Lords. ^ Second Edition.) 2 vols. 8vo. 32s. 6d. 
 
 Thornton's Gazetteer of India. 
 
 Compiled chiefly from the records at the India Office. By 
 
 Edward Thornton. 1 vol., 8vo., pp. 1015. With Map. 21s. 
 
 *** The chief objects in mew in compiling this Gazetteer are: — 
 
 1st. To fix the relative position of the various cities, towns, and villages 
 with as much precision as possible, and to exhibit with the greatest 
 practicable brevity all that is known respecting them ; and 
 
 2ndly. To note the various countries, provinces, or territorial divisions, and 
 to describe the physical characteristics of each, together with their 
 statistical, social, and political circumstances. 
 
 To these are added minute descriptions of the principal rivers 
 
 and chains of mountains ; thus presenting to the reader, within a brief com- 
 pass, a mass of information which cannot otherwise be obtained, except from 
 
 a multiplicity of volumes and manuscript records. 
 
 The Library Edition. 
 
 4 vols., 8vo. Notes, Marginal References, and Map. £2 16s. 
 
 Gazetteer of the Punjanb, Afghanistan, &c. 
 
 Gazetteer of the Countries adjacent to India, on the north- 
 west, including Scinde, Afghanistan, Beloochistan, thePunjaub, 
 and the neighbouring States. By Edward Thornton, Esq. 
 
 , 2 vols. 8vo. £1 5s. 
 
13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 33" 
 
 Thornton's History of India. 
 
 The History of the British Empire in India, by Edward 
 Thornton, Esq. Containing a Copious Glossary of Indian 
 Terms, and a Complete Chronological Index of Events, to aid 
 the Aspirant for Public Examinations. Third edition. 1 vol. 
 8vo. With Map. 12s. 
 
 * # * The Library Edition of the above in 6 volumes, 8vo. t may be 
 had, price £2 8s. 
 
 Thornton (T.) East India Calculator. 
 
 By T. Thornton. 8vo. London, i825. 10s. 
 
 History of the Punjaub, 
 
 And of the Rise, Progress, and Present Condition of the 
 Sikhs. By T. Thornton. 2 Vols. Post 8vo. 8s. 
 
 Tilley (H. A.) Japan, the Amoor and the Pacific. 
 
 With notices of other Places, comprised in a Voyage of Circum- 
 navigation in the Imperial Russian Corvette Rynda, in 1858— 
 1860. Bv Henry A. Tilley. Eight Illustrations. 8vo. 16s. 
 
 Tod (Col. Jas.) Travels in Western India. 
 
 Embracing a visit to the Sacred Mounts of the Jains, 
 and the most Celebrated Shrines of Hindu Faith between 
 Bajpootana and the Indus, with an account of the Ancient 
 City of Nehrwalla. By the late Lieut.- Col. James Tod, 
 Illustrations. Royal 4 to. £3 3s. 
 
 * # * This is a companion volume to Colonel Tod's Rajasthan, 
 
 Torrens (W. T. McC.) Reform of Procedure in Parliament 
 
 to Clear the Block of Public Business. By W. T. McCullagh 
 Torrens, M.P. Crown 8vo. 6s. 
 
 Trimen (Capt. R.) Regiments of the British Army, 
 
 Chronologically arranged. Showing their History, Services, 
 Uniform, &c. By Captain R. Trimen, late 35th Regiment. 
 8vo. 10s. 6d. 
 
 Trotter (L. J.) History of India. 
 
 The History of the British Empire in India, from the 
 Appointment of Lord Hardinge to the Death of Lord Canning 
 (1844 to 1862). By Captain Lionel James Trotter, late 
 Bengal Fusiliers. 2 vols. 8vo. 16s. each. 
 
 Lord Lawrence. 
 
 A Sketch of his Career. Fcap. Is. 6d. 
 
 Warren Hastings, a Biography. 
 
 By Captain Lionel James Trotter, Bengal H. P., author 
 of a " History of India," " Studies in Biography," <fec. 
 Crown 8vo. 9s. • 
 
34 W. H. Allen & Co., 
 
 Underwood (A. S.) Surgery for Dental Students. 
 
 By Arthur S. Underwood, M.R.C.S., L.D.S.E., Assistant 
 Surgeon to the Dental Hospital of London. 5s. 
 Vambery (A.) Sketches of Central Asia. 
 
 Additional Chapters on My Travels and Adventures, and of the 
 
 Ethnology of Central Asia. By Armenius Vambery. 8vo. 16s. 
 
 " A valuable guide on almost untrodden ground."- -Athenceum. 
 
 Vibart (Major H. M.) The Military History of the Madras 
 Engineers and Pioneers. By Major H. M. Vibart, Royal 
 (late Madras) Engineers. In 2 vols., with numerous Maps 
 and Plans. Vol. I. 8vo. 32s. (Vol. IT. in the Press.) 
 
 Victoria Cross (The) An Official Chronicle of Deeds of Per- 
 sonal Valour achieved in the presence of the Enemy during 
 the Crimean and Baltic Campaigns and the Indian, Chinese, 
 New Zealand, and African Wars. From the Institution of the 
 Order in 1856 to 1880. Edited by Robert W. O'Byrne. 
 Crown 8vo. With Plate. 5s. 
 
 Vyse (G. W.) Egypt : Political, Financial, and Strategical. 
 Together with an Account of its Engineering Capabilities 
 and Agricultural Resources. By Griffin W. Vyse, late 
 on special duty in Egypt and Afghanistan for H.M.'s 
 Government. Crown 8vo. With Maps. 6s. 
 
 Waring (E. J.) Pharmacopoeia of India. 
 
 By Edward John Waring, M.D., &c. 8vo. 6s. (See page 2.) 
 
 Watson (M.) Money. 
 
 By Jules Tardieu. Translated from the French by Mab- 
 garet Watson. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. 
 
 Watson (Dr. J. F.) and J. W. Kaye, Races and Tribes of 
 Hindostan. The People of India. A series of Photographic 
 Illustrations of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan. Prepared 
 under the Authority of the Government of India, by J. Forbes 
 Watson, and John William Kaye. The Work contains 
 about 450 Photographs on mounts, in Eight Volumes, super 
 royal 4to. £2. 5s. per volume. 
 
 Webb (Dr. A.) Pathologia Indica. 
 
 Based upon Morbid Specimens from all parts of the Indian 
 Empire. By Allan Webb, B.M.S. Second Edit. 8vo. 14s. 
 
 Wellesley's Despatches. 
 
 The Despatches, Minutes, and Correspondence of the Marquis 
 Wellesley, K.G., during his Administration in India. 5 vols. 
 8vo. With Portrait, Map, &c. £6. 10s. 
 
 This work should be perused by all who proceed to India in the 
 
 Civil Services. 
 
13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 85 
 
 Wellington in India. 
 
 Military History of the Duke of Wellington in India. Is. 
 
 Wilberforce (E.) Franz Schubert. 
 
 A Musical Biography, from the German of Dr. Heinrich 
 Kreisle von Hellborn. By Edward Wilberforce, Esq., 
 Author of "Social Life in Munich.'' Post 8vo. 6s. 
 
 Wilk's South of India. 
 8 vols. 4to. £b. 5s, 
 
 Wilkins (W.N.) Visual Art; or Nature through the Healthy Eye. 
 With some remarks on Originality and Free Trade, Artistic 
 Copyright, and Durability. By Wm. Noy Wilkins, Author of 
 •' Art Impressions of Dresden," &c. 8vo. 6s. 
 
 Williams (F.) Lives of the English Cardinals. 
 
 The Lives of the English Cardinals, from Nicholas Break- 
 speare (Pope Adrien IV.) to Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal Legate. 
 With Historical Notices of the Papal Court. By Folkestone 
 Wtlltams. 2 vols., 8vo. 14s. 
 
 Life, &c, of Bishop Atterbury. 
 
 The Memoir and Correspondence of Francis Atterbury, Bishop 
 of Rochester, with his distinguished contemporaries. Compiled 
 chiefly from the Atterbury and Stuart Papers. By Folkestone 
 Williams, Author of "Lives of the English Cardinals," &c, 
 '■I vols. 8vo. 14s. 
 
 Williams (Monier) Indian Wisdom. 
 
 Or Examples of the Religious, Philosophical and Ethical 
 Doctrines of the Hindus. With a brief History of the Chief 
 Departments of Sanscrit Literature, and some account of the 
 Past and Present Condition of India, Moral and Intellectual. 
 By Monier Williams, M.A., Boden Professor of Sanscrit in 
 in the University of Oxford. Third Edition. Rvo. 15s. 
 
 Wilson (H.H.) Glossary of Judicial and Revenue Terms, and of 
 
 useful Words occurring in Official Documents relating to the 
 Administration of the Government of British India. From the 
 Arabic, Persian, Hindustani, Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, Uriya, 
 Marathi, Guzarathi, Telugu, Karnata, Tamil, Malayalam, and 
 other Languages. Compiled and published under the autho- 
 rity of the Hon. the Court of Directors of the E. I. Company. 
 4to., cloth. £1 10s. 
 
 White (S. D.) Indian Reminiscences. 
 
 By Colonel S. Dewe' White, late Bengal Staff Corps. 8to. 
 With 10 Photographs. 14s. 
 
36 W. H. Allen & Co., 
 
 Wollaston (Arthur N.) Anwari Suhaili, or Lights of Canopus. 
 Commonly known as Kalilah and Damnah, being an adaptation 
 of the Fables of Bidpai. Translated from the Persian. Royal 
 8vo., 42s. ; also in royal 4to., with illuminated borders, de- 
 signed specially for the work, cloth, extra gilt. dG3 13s. 6d. 
 
 Elementary Indian Reader. 
 
 Designed for the use of Students in the Anglo- Vernacular 
 Schools in India. Fcap. Is. 
 
 Woolrych (Serjeant W. H.) 
 
 Lives of Eminent Serjeants-at-Law of the English Bar. By 
 Humphry W. Woolrych, Serjeant-at-Law. 2 vols. 8vo. 30s. 
 
 Wraxall (Sir L., Bart.) Caroline Matilda. 
 
 Queen of Denmark, Sister of George 3rd. From Family and 
 State Papers. By Sir Lascelles Wraxall, Bart. 3 vols., 8vo. 
 18s. 
 
 Young (J. R.) Course of Mathematics. 
 
 A Course of Elementary Mathematics for the use of candidates- 
 for admission into either of the Military Colleges; of appli- 
 cants for appointments in the Home or Indian Civil Services ; 
 and of mathematical students generally. By Professor J. R. 
 Young. In one closely-printed volume. 8vo., pp. 648. 12s. 
 "In the work before us he has digested a complete Elementary 
 Course, by aid of his long experience as a teacher and writer ; and he has 
 produced a very useful book. Mr. Young has not allowed his own taste 
 to rule the distribution, but has adjusted his parts with the skill of a 
 veteran." — Athenceum. 
 
 Young (M.) and Trent (R.) A Home Ruler. 
 
 A Story for Girls. By Minnie Young and Rachel Trent,. 
 Illustrated by C. P. Colnaghi. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. 
 
13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 87 
 
 Works in the Press. 
 
 The History of India, as told by its own Historians ; 
 the Local Muhammadan Dynasties. Yol. I. Guzerat. By- 
 John Dowson, M.R.A.S., late Professor of the Staff 
 College. Forming a Sequel in two or more volumes to 
 Sir H. M. Elliott's Original work on the Muhammadan 
 period of the History of India ; already edited, annotated, 
 and amplified by the same Author. Published under the 
 Patronage of H.M.'s Secretary of State for India. 
 
 An Integral Calculus. Simplified for Schools. By W. 
 P. Lynam, Indian Public Works Department. 
 
 Wanderings in Baluchistan. By General Sir C. M. 
 MacGregor, C.S.I., &c, Author of "Narrative of a Journey 
 through Khorassan," &c. 
 
 The Truth about Opium. A Defence of the Indo-China 
 Opium Trade, and a Refutation of the Allegations of the 
 " Anglo-Oriental Society for the Suppression of the Opium 
 Trade," being the Substance of Three Lectures delivered 
 at St. James's Hall on the 9th, 16th, and 23rd February, 
 1882. By Wm. E. Brereton, late of Hong Kong, Solicitor. 
 
 The Belgium of the East. By the Author of " Egypt 
 under Ismail Pasha," "Egypt for the Egyptians," &c. 
 Edited by Blanchard Jerrold. 
 
 Three Plays and Twelve Dramatic Scenes. Suitable 
 for Private Theatricals. By Martin F. Tupper, D.C.L., 
 F.E.S., Author of " Proverbial Philosophy." 
 
 Thirty-eight Years in India, from Jugunath to the 
 Himalayan Mountains. Vol. II. 
 
 The Plays and Poems of Charles Dickens. Collected 
 and Edited by Richard Heme Shepherd. 2 vols. 
 
 The English in India* New Sketches. By E. de Valbezen, 
 late Consul- General at Calcutta, Minister Plenipotentiary. 
 Translated from the French, with the Author's permission, 
 by a Diplomat. 
 
 Diplomatic Study of the Crimean War. Translated 
 from the original as published by the Russian Foreign 
 Office. 2 vols. 
 
38 W. H. Allen & Co., 
 
 An Illustrated Edition op Twenty-one Days in India. 
 Being the Tour of Sir Ali Baba, K.C.B. By George 
 Aberigh Mackay. 
 
 Queer People. From the Swedish of " Leah." By Albert 
 Alberg. 2 vols. 
 
 The Jesuits. A Complete History of public and private 
 proceedings from the foundation of the Order to the 
 present time. By Theodor Greussinger. 
 
 Franz Liszt, Artist and Man. By L. Ramann, Trans- 
 lated from the German. 
 
 " On Duty." A Novel. 
 
 Foreign Secretaries of the XIXth Century. By Percy 
 M. Thornton. Vol. III. 
 
 School Riding. By Edward L. Anderson, Author of " How 
 to Ride and School a Horse." 
 
 Accented Five-Figure Logarithms of the numbers 
 from 1 to 99999 without Differences. Arranged and 
 Accented by Lowis D'A. Jackson. 
 
 Gujarat and the Gujaratis : Pictures of Men and Man- 
 ners taken from Life. By Behramji M. Malabari, Author 
 of " The Indian Muse in English Garb," " Pleasures of 
 Morality," " Wilson- Vir ah," &c, and Editor of the 
 " Indian Spectator." 
 
 Oriental Works in the Press. 
 
 A Hindi Manual. By Frederic Pincott, M.R.A.S. 
 
 An English-Arabic Dictionary. By Dr. Steingass. 
 
 An Arabic-English Dictionary. By Dr. Steingass. 
 
 An English-Hindi Dictionary. By Frederic Pincott, M.R.A.S. 
 
 A Malay, Achinese, French, and English Vocabulary. 
 Prepared by Dr. A. J. W. Bikkers. 
 
18, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 30 
 
 A SELECTION FROM 
 
 MESSRS. ALLEN'S CATALOGUE 
 
 OF BOOKS IN THE EASTERN LANGUAGES, &c. 
 
 HINDUSTANI, HINDI, &c. 
 
 [_Dr. Forbes 1 1 Works are used as Class Books in the Colleges and Schools 
 
 in India.] 
 
 Forbes's Hindustani-English Dictionary in the Persian Character, 
 with the Hindi words in Nagari also; and an English Hindustani 
 Dictionary in the English Character ; both in one volume. By Dun- 
 can Forbes, LL.D. Royal 8vo. 42s. 
 
 Forbes's Hindustani-English and English Hindustani Dictionary, 
 in the English Character. Royal 8vo. 36s. 
 
 Forbes's Smaller Dictionary, Hindustani and English, in the 
 English Character. 12s. 
 
 Forbes's Hindustani Grammar, with Specimens of Writing in the 
 Persian and Nagari Characters, Reading Lessons, and Vocabulary. 
 8vo. 10s. 6d. 
 
 Forbes's Hindustani Manual, containing a Compendious Gram- 
 mar, Exercises for Translation, Dialogues, and Vocabulary, in the 
 Roman Character. New Edition, entirely revised. By J. T. Platts. 
 18mo. 3s. 6d. 
 
 Forbes's Bagh o Bahar, m the Persian Character, with a complete 
 Vocabulary. Royal 8vo. 12s. 6d. 
 
 Forbes's Bagh o Bahar in English, with Explanatory Notes, 
 illustrative of Eastern Character. 8vo. 8b. 
 
 Forbes's Bagh o Bahar, with Vocaby., English Character. 5s. 
 
 Forbes's Tota Kahani ; or, " Tales of a Parrot," in the Persian 
 Character, with a complete Vocabulary. Royal 8vo. 8s. 
 
 Forbes's Baital Pachisi ; or, "Twenty-five Tales of a Demon," 
 in the Nagari Character, with a complete Vocabulary. Royal 8vo. 9s. 
 
 Forbes's Ikhwanu s Safa; or, "Brothers of Purity," in the 
 Persian Character. Royal 8vo. 12s. 6d. 
 
 [For the higher standard for military officers' examinations.] 
 
 Forbes's Oriental Penmanship ; a Guide to Writing Hindustani 
 
 in the Persian Character. 4to. 8s. 
 Platts' Grammar of the Urdu or Hindustani-Language. 8vo. 12s. 
 Eastwick (Edward B.) The Bagh-o-Bahar — literally translated 
 
 into English, with copious explanatory notes. 8vo. 10s. 6d. 
 
40 W. H. Allen & Co., 
 
 Small's (Rev. G.) Tota Kahani; or, " Tales of a Parrot." Trans- 
 lated into English. 8vo. 8s. 
 
 Small's (Rev. G.) Dictionary of Naval Terms, English and 
 Hindustani. For the use of Nautical Men Trading to India," &c. 
 Fcap. 2s. 6d. 
 
 Platts' J. T., Baital Pachisi; translated into English. 8vo. 8s. 
 
 Platts' Ikhwanu S Safa; translated into English. 8vo. 10s. 6d. 
 
 Piatt's (J. T.), A Hindustani Dictionary. Part I. Royal 
 8vo. 10s. 6d. 
 
 Hindustani Selections, with a Vocabulary of the Words. By 
 James R. Ballantyne. Second Edition. 1845. 5s. 
 
 Singhasan B.attisi. Translated into Hindi from the Sanscrit. 
 A New Edition. Revised, Corrected, and Accompanied with Copious 
 Notes. By Syed Abdoolah. Royal 8vo. 12s. 6d. 
 
 Akhlaki Hindi, translated into Urdu, with an Introduction and 
 Notes. By Syed Abdoolah. Royal 8vo. 12s. 6d. 
 
 Sakuntala. Translated into Hindi from the Bengali recension 
 of the Sanskrit. Critically edited, with grammatical, idiomatical, and 
 exegetical notes, by Fbedebic Pincott. 4to. 12s. 6d. 
 
 Alif Laila, ba-Zuban-i-Urdu (The Arabian Nights in Hindu- 
 stani). Roman Character. Edited by F. Pincott, M.R.A.S. 
 
 Principles of Persian Caligraphy. Illustrated by Lithographic 
 Plates of the Ta"lik Character, the one usually employed in writing 
 the Persian and the Hindustani. Prepared for the use of the Scottish 
 Naval and Military Academy by James R. Ballantxicb. Second 
 Edition. 4to. 3s. 6d. 
 
 SANSCRIT. 
 
 Haughton's Sanscrit and Bengali Dictionary, in the Bengali 
 
 Character, with Index, serving as a reversed dictionary. 4to. 30s. 
 Williams's English- Sanscrit Dictionary. 4to., cloth. £3. 3s. 
 Williams's Sanskrit-English Dictionary. 4to. £4 14s. 6d. 
 Wilkin's (Sir Charles) Sanscrit Grammar. 4to. 15s. 
 Williams's (Monier) Sanscrit Grammar. 8vo. 15s. 
 Williams's (Monier) Sanscrit Manual ; to which is added, a 
 
 Vocabulary, by A. E. G-ottoh. 18mo. 7s. 6d. 
 Gough's (A. E.) Key to the Exercises in Williams's Sanscrit 
 
 Manual. 18mo. 4s. 
 Williams's (Monier) Sakuntala, with Literal English Translation 
 
 of all the Metrical Passages, Schemes of the Metres, and copious 
 
 Critical and Explanatory Notes. Royal 8vo. 21s. 
 Williams's (Monier) Sakuntala. Translated into English Prose 
 
 and Verse. Fourth Edition. 8s. 
 Williams's (Monier) Vikramorvasi. The Text. 8vo. 5s. 
 Cowell's (E. B.) Translation of the Vikramorvasi. 8vo. 8s. 6d. 
 
13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 4t 
 
 Thompson's (J. C.) Bhagavat Gita. Sanscrit Text. 5s. 
 Haughton's Menu, with English Translation. 2 vols. 4to. 24s. 
 Johnson's Hitopadesa, with Vocabulary. 15s. 
 Hitopadesa. A new literal translation from the Sanskrit Text 
 
 of Prof. F. Johnson. For the use of Students. By Feedeeio 
 
 Pincott, M.E.A.S. 6s. 
 Hitopadesa, Sanscrit, with Bengali and English Trans. 10s. 6d. 
 
 Wilson's Megha Duta, with Translation into English Verse, 
 Notes, Illustrations, and a Vocabulary. Eoyal 8vo. 6s. 
 
 PERSIAN. 
 Richardson's Persian, Arabic, and English Dictionary. Edition 
 
 of 1852. By F.Johnson. 4to. JS4. 
 Forbes's Persian Grammar, Reading Lessons, and Vocabulary. 
 
 Eoyal 8vo. 12s. 6d. 
 Ibraheem's Persian Grammar, Dialogues, &c. Royal 8vo. 12s. 6d. 
 Gulistan. Carefully collated with the original MS., with a full 
 
 Vocabulary. By John Platts, late Inspector of Schools, Central 
 
 Provinces, India. Eoyal 8vo. 12s. 6d. 
 Gulistan. Translated from a revised Text, with Copious Notes. 
 
 By John Platts. 8vo. 12s. 6d. 
 Ouseley's Anwari Soheili. 4to. 42s. 
 Wollaston's (Arthur N.) Translation of the Anvari Soheili. 
 
 Eoyal 8vo. £2 2s. 
 Wollaston's (Arthur N.) English-Persian Dictionary. Compiled 
 
 from Original Sources. 8yo. 25s. 
 Keene's (Rev. H. G.) First Book of The Anwari Soheili. Persian 
 
 Text. 8vo. 5s. 
 Ouseley's (Col.) Akhlaki Mushini. Persian Text. 8vo. 5s 
 Keene's (Rev. H. G.) Akhlaki Mushini. Translated into English. 
 
 8vo. 3s. 6d. 
 Clarke's (Captain H. Wilberforce, R.E.) The Persian Manual. 
 
 A Pocket Companion. 
 
 PAET I. — A concise Gbammab op the Language, with Exer- 
 cises on its more Prominent Peculiarities, together with a Selection of 
 
 Useful Phrases, Dialogues, and Subjects for Translation into Persian. 
 
 PAET II.— A VoCABTJLABY OP USEFUL WOBDS, ENGLISH AND 
 
 Pebsian, showing at the same time the difference of idiom between 
 
 the two Languages. 18mo. 7s. 6d. 
 The Bustan. By Shaikh Muslihu-d-Din Sa'di Shirazi. 
 
 Translated for the first time into Prose, with Explanatory Notes 
 
 and Index. By Captain H. Wilbeefobce Claeke, E.E. 8vo. 
 
 With Portrait. 30s. 
 A Translation of Robinson Crusoe into the Persian Language. 
 
 Eoman Character. Edited by T. W. H. Tolboet, Bengal Civil 
 
 Service. Cr. 8vo. 7i. 
 
42 W. H. Allen & Co., 
 
 BENGALI. 
 
 Haughton's Bengali, Sanscrit, and English Dictionary, adapted 
 for Students in either language ; to which is added an Index, serving 
 as a reversed dictionary. 4to. 30s. 
 
 Forbes 's Bengali Grammar, with Phrases and dialogues. Royal 
 8vo. 12s. 6d. 
 
 Forbes's Bengali Reader, with a Translation and Vocabulary 
 Eoyal 8vo. 12s. 6d. 
 
 Nabo Nari. 12mo. 7s. 
 
 ARABIC. 
 
 Richardson's Arabic, Persian and English Dictionary. Edition 
 of 1852. ByF. Johnson. 4to., cloth. £4. 
 
 Forbes's Arabic Grammar, intended more especially for the use of 
 young men preparing for the East India Civil Service, and also for the 
 use of self instructing students in general. Royal 8ro., clothu 18s. 
 
 Palmer's Arabic Grammar. 8vo. 18s. 
 
 Forbes's Arabic Reading Lessons, consisting of Easy Extracts 
 from the best Authors, with Vocabulary. Royal 8vo., cloth. 15s. 
 
 The Arabic Manual. Comprising a condensed Grammar of both 
 Classical and Modern Arabic ; Reading Lessons and Exercises, with 
 Analyses and a Vocabulary of useful Words. By Prof. E. H. Palmbr, 
 M.A., &c, Author of " A Grammar of the Arabic Language." Fcap. 
 7s. 6d. 
 
 TELOOGOO. 
 
 Brown's Dictionary, reversed ; with a Dictionary of the Mixed 
 Dialects used in Teloogoo. 3 vols, in 2, royal 8vo. £5. 
 
 Campbell's Dictionary. Royal 8vo. 30s. 
 
 Brown's Reader. 8vo. 2 vols. 14s. 
 
 Brown's Dialogues, Teloogoo and English. 8vo. 5s. 6d. 
 
 Pancha Tantra. 8s. 
 
 Percival's English- Teloogoo Dictionary. 10s. 6d. 
 
 TAMIL. 
 
 Rottler's Dictionary, Tamil and English. 4to. 42s. 
 Babington's Grammar (High Dialect). 4to. 12s. 
 Percival's Tamil Dictionary. 2 vols. 10s. 6d. 
 
13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. 43 
 
 GUZRATTEE. 
 
 Mavor's Spelling, Guzrattee and English. 7s, 6d. 
 Shapuaji Edalji's Dictionary, Guzrattee and English. 21s. 
 
 MAHRATTA. 
 
 Molesvvorth's Dictionary, Mahratta and English. 4to. 42s. 
 
 Moles worth's Dictionary, English and Mahratta. 4to. 42s. 
 
 Esop's Fables. 12mo. 2s. 6d. 
 
 A Grammar of the Mahratta Language. For the use of the 
 East India College at Hayleybury. By James R. Ballantyite, of 
 the Scottish Naval and Military Academy. 4to. 5s. 
 
 MALAY. 
 Marsdens Grammar. 4to. £\ Is. 
 
 CHINESE. 
 
 Morrisons Dictionary. 6 vols. 4to. £10. 
 
 Marshman's — Clavis Sinica, a Chinese Grammar. 4to. £2 2s. 
 
 Morrison's View of China, for Philological purposes; containing a 
 Sketch of Chinese Chronology, G-eography, Government, Religion and 
 Customs, designed for those who study the Chinese language. 4to. 6s. 
 
 PTJS'HTO. 
 
 The Pu6hto Manual. Comprising a Concise Grammar; Exer- 
 cises and Dialogues ; Familiar Phrases, Proverbs, and Vocabulary. By 
 Major H. G-. Raverty, Bombay Infantry (Retired). Author of the 
 Pus'hto Grammar, Dictionary, Selections Prose and Poetical, Selections 
 from the Poetry of the Afghans (English Translation), ^Esop's Fables, 
 &c. &c. Fcap. 5s. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Reeve's English-Carnatica and Carnatica-English Dictionary. 
 2 vols. (Very slightly damaged). £8. 
 
 Collett's Malayalam Reader. Hvo. 12s. 6d. 
 
 Esop's Fables in Carnatica. 8vo. bound. 12s. 6d. 
 
 A Turkish Manual, comprising a Condensed Grammar with 
 Idiomatic Phrases, Exercises and Dialogues, and Vocabulary. By 
 Captain C. F. Mackenzie, late of H.M.'s Consular Service. 6s. 
 
44 W. H. Allen & Co. 
 
 W. H. ALLEN & CO.'S ORIENTAL MANUALS. 
 
 Forbes's Hindustani Manual, containing a Compendious Gram- 
 mar, Exercises for Translation, Dialogues, and Vocabulary, in the 
 Roman Character. New edition, entirely revised. By J. T. Platts, 
 18mo. 3s. 6d. 
 
 Williams's (Monier) Sanskrit Manual ; to which is added, a 
 Vocabulary, by A. E. Gotjgh. 18mo. 7s. 6d. 
 
 Gough's (A. E.) Key to the Exercises in Williams's Sanscrit 
 Manual. 18mo. 4s. 
 
 The Arabic Manual. Comprising a condensed Grammar of both 
 Classical and Modern Arabic ; Reading Lessons and Exercises, with 
 Analyses and a Vocabulary of useful Words. By Prof. E. H. Palmir, 
 M.A., &c, Author of "A Grammar of the Arabia Language." Fcap. 
 7s. 6d. 
 
 A Turkish Manual, comprising a Condensed Grammar with 
 Idiomatic Phrases, Exercises and Dialogues, and Vocabulary. By 
 Captain C. F. Mackenzie, late of H.M.'s Consular Service. 6s. 
 
 Clarke's (Capt. H. W., R.E.) The Persian Manual, containing 
 a concise Grammar, with Exercises, useful Phrases, Dialogues, and 
 Subjects for Translation into Persian ; also a Vocabulary of Useful 
 Words, English and Persian. 18mo. 7s. 6d. 
 
 The Pushto Manual. Comprising a Concise Grammar ; Exer- 
 cises and Dialogues ; Familiar Phrases, Proverbs, and Vocabulary. By 
 Major H. G. Ravebty, Bombay Infantry (Retired). Fcap. 5s. 
 
 A RELIEVO MAP OF INDIA. 
 
 By HENRY F. BRION. 
 In Frame, 21a. 
 
 " A map of this kind brings before us such* a picture of the surface of a giren 
 country as no ordinary map could ever do. To the mind's eye of the average 
 Englishman, India consists of ' the plains ' and 'the hills,' chiefly of the former, 
 the hills being limited to the Himalayas and the Nilgiris. The new map will at 
 least enable him to correct his notions of Indian geography. It combines the 
 usual features of a good plain map of the country on a scale of 150 miles to the 
 inch, With a faithful representation of all the uneven surfaces, modelled on a scale 
 thirty-two times the horizontal one ; thus bringing out into clear relief the com- 
 parative heights and outlines of all the hill-ranges, and showing broad tracts of 
 uneven ground, of intermingled hill and valley, which a common map of the 
 same size would hardly indicate, except to a very practised eye. The plains of 
 Upper India are reduced to their true proportions; the Central Provinces, 
 Malwa, and Western Bengal reveal their actual ruggedness at a glance ; and 
 Southern India, from the Vindhyas to Cape Comorin, proclaims its real height 
 above the sea-level. To the historical as well as the geographical student such a 
 map is an obvious and important aid in tracing the course of past campaigns, in 
 realising the conditions under which successive races carried their armi or settle- 
 ments through the Peninsula, and in comprehending the difference of race, elimate, 
 and physical surroundings which make up our Indian Empire. Set in a neat 
 frame of maplewood, the map seems to attract the eye like a prettily-coloured 
 picture, and its price, a guinea, should place it within the reach of all who care to 
 combine the useful with the ornamental." — Home News. 
 
MAPS OF INDIA, etc. 
 
 Messrs. Allen S( Co.'s Maps of India were revised and much improved 
 dtiring 1876, with especial reference to the existing Administrative 
 Divisions, Railways, Sfc. 
 
 District Map of India ; corrected to 1876; 
 
 Divided into Collectorates with the Telegraphs and Railways from Go- 
 vernment surveys. On six sheets — size, 5ft. 6in. high; 5ft. 8in. wide, 
 £2; in a case, £2 12s. 6d. ; or, rollers, varn., £3 3s. 
 
 A General Map of India ; corrected to 1876 ; 
 
 Compiled chiefly from surveys executed by order of the Government 
 of India. On six sheets — size, 5 ft. 3 in. wide ; 5 ft. 4 in. high, £2 ; 
 or, on cloth, in case, £2 12s. 6d. ; or, rollers, varn., £3 3s. 
 
 Map of India ; corrected to 1876 ; 
 
 From the most recent Authorities. On two sheets — size, 2 ft. lOin. 
 wide ; 3 ft. 3 in. high, 16s. ; or, on cloth, in a case, £1 Is. 
 
 Map of the Routes in India; corrected to 1874 ; 
 
 With Tables of Distances between the principal Towns and Military 
 Stations On one sheet — size, 2 ft. 3 in. wide ; 2 ft. 9 in. high, 9s. ; 
 or, on cloth, in a case, 12s. 
 
 Map of the Western Provinces of Hindoostan, 
 
 The Punjab, Cabool, Scinde, Bhawulpore, &c, including all the States 
 between Candahar and Allahabad. On four sheets — size, 4 ft. 4in. 
 wide ; 4 ft. 2 in. high, 30s. ; or, in case, £2 ; rollers, varnished, £2 10s. 
 
 Map of India and China, Burmah, Siam, the Malay Penin- 
 sula, and the Empire of Anam. On two sheets — size, 4 ft. 3 in. wide ; 
 3 ft. 4 in. high, 16s. ; or, on cloth, in a case, £1 5s. 
 
 Map of the Steam Communication and Overland Routes 
 between England, India, China, and Australia. In a case, 14s. ; on 
 rollers, and varnished, 18s. 
 
 Map of China, 
 
 From the most Authentic Sources of Information. One large sheet — 
 size, 2 ft. 7 in. wide ; 2 ft. 2 in. high, 6s. ; or, on cloth, in case, 8s. 
 
 Map of the World ; 
 
 On Mercator's Projection, showing the Tracts of the Early Navigators, 
 the Currents of the Ocean, the Principal Lines of great Circle Sailing, 
 and the most recent discoveries. On four sheets — size, 6ft. 2 in. wide ; 
 1 ft. 3 in. high, £2 ; on cloth, in a case, £2 10s ; or, with rollers, and 
 varnished, £3. 
 
 Handbook of Reference to the Maps of India. 
 
 G-iving the Latitude and Longitude of places of note. 18mo. 3s. 6d. 
 
 Russian Official Map of Central Asia. Compiled in accord- 
 ance with the Discoveries and Surveys of Russian Staff Officers up 
 to the close of the year 1877. In 2 Sheets. 10s. 6d., or im cloth 
 case, 14a. 
 
In January and July of each year is published in 8vo., price 10*. 6d. t 
 
 THE INDIA LIST, CIVIL & MILITARY* 
 
 BY PEEMISSION OF THE SECEETAEY OF STATE FOB INDIA IN COUNCIL. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 CIVIL. — Gradation Lists of Civil Service, Bengal, Madras and Bombay. 
 Civil Annuitants. Legislative Council, Ecclesiastical Establishments, 
 Educational, Public Works, Judicial, Marine, Medical, Land Revenue, 
 Political, Postal, Police, Customs and Salt, Forest, Registration and 
 Railway and Telegraph Departments, Law Courts, Surveys, &c, &c. 
 
 MILITARY.— Gradation List of the General and Field Officers (British 
 and Local) of the three Presidencies, Staff Corps, Adjutants-General's 
 and Quartermasters- General's Offices, Army Commissariat Depart- 
 ments, British Troops Serving in India (including Royal Artillery, Royal 
 Engineers, Cavalry, Infantrv, and Medical Department), List of Native 
 Regiments, Commander-in-Chief and Staff, Garrison Instruction Staff, 
 Indian Medical Department, Ordnance Departments, Punjab Frontier 
 Force, Military Departments of the three Presidencies, Veterinary 
 Departments, Tables showing the Distribution of the Army in India, 
 Lists of Retired Officers of the three Presidencies. 
 
 HOME. — Departments of the Office of the Secretary of State, Coopers 
 Hill College, List of Selected Candidates for the Civil and Forest Services, 
 Indian Troop Service. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS.— Orders of the Bath, Star of India, and St. Michael 
 and St. George. Order of Precedence in India. Regulations for Admis- 
 sion to Civil Service. Regulations for Admission of Chaplains. Civil 
 Leave Code and Supplements. Civil Service Pension Code — relating to 
 the Covenanted and Uncovenanted Services. Rules for the Indian 
 Medical Service. Furlough and Retirement Regulations of the Indian 
 Army. Family Pension Fund. Staff Corps Regulations. Salaries of 
 Staff Officers. Regulations for Promotion. English Furlough Pay. 
 
 THE 
 
 ROYAL KALENDAE, 
 
 AND COURT AND CITY REGISTER, 
 
 FOR ENGLAND, IRELAND, SCOTLAND, AND THE COLONIES, 
 
 For the Year 1882. 
 
 Containing a Correct List of the Twenty-First Imperial 
 Parliament, summoned to meet for their First 
 Session — March 5th, 1874. 
 House of Peers — House of Commons — Sovereigns and Rulers of States 
 of Europe — Orders of Knighthood — Science and Art Department— Queen's 
 Household — Government Offices — Mint— Customs — Inland Revenue — 
 Post Office — Foreign Ministers and Consuls — Queen's Consuls Abroad — 
 Naval Department — Navy List — Army Department — Army List — Law- 
 Courts — Police— Ecclesiastical Department — Clergy List — Foundation 
 Schools — Literary Institutions— City of London — Banks — Railway Com- 
 panies — Hospitals and Institutions — Charities — Miscellaneous Institutions* 
 Scotland, Ireland, India, and the Colonies ; and other useful information. 
 
 Price with, Index, 7 s. ; without Index. 5s 
 
Published on the arrival of every Mail from India. Subscription 26*. per 
 annum, post free, specimen copy, 6d. 
 
 ALLEN'S INDIAN MAIL, 
 
 AND 
 
 final §mttt 
 
 PEOM 
 
 INDIA, CHINA, AND ALL PARTS OF THE EAST. 
 
 Allen's Indian Mail contains the fullest and most authentic Report* 
 of all important Occurrences in the Countries to which it is devoted, com- 
 piled chiefly from private and exclusive sources. It has been pronounced 
 by the Press in general to be indispensable to all who have Friends or Rela- 
 tives in the East, as affording the only correct information regarding the 
 Services, Movements of Troops, Shipping, and all events of Domestic and 
 individual interest. 
 
 The subjoined list of the usual Contents will show the importance and 
 variety of the information concentrated in Allen's Indian Mail. 
 
 Summary and Review of Eastern News. 
 
 Shipping— Arrival of Ships 
 
 w ,, Passengers 
 
 „ Departure of Ships 
 
 ,, ,, Passengers 
 
 Commercial State of the Markets 
 „ Indian Securities 
 
 „ Freights 
 
 &c. &c &c. 
 
 Precis of Public Intelligence 
 
 Selections from the Indian Press 
 
 Movements of Troops 
 
 The Government Gazette 
 
 Courts Martial 
 
 Domestic Intelligence— Births 
 
 „ „ Marriages 
 
 „ „ Deaths 
 
 Home Intelligence relating to India, Sfc. 
 
 Original Articles Arrival reported in England 
 
 Miscellaneous Information Departures „ „ 
 
 Appointments, List of Fur- Shipping— Arrival of Ships 
 
 loughs, Extensions, &c. „ „ Passengers 
 
 „ Civil n Departure of Ships 
 
 „ Military „ „ Passengers 
 
 „ Ecclesiastical and ,, Vessel spoken with 
 
 „ Marine &c. &c. &c. 
 
 Review of Wcoks on the East.— and Notices of all affairs connected 
 with India aud the Services. 
 
 Each year an Index is furnished, to enable Subscribers to bind up the Volume 
 which forme a complete 
 
 ASIATIC AN NUAL REGISTER AND LIBRARY OF REFERENCE. 
 London:Wm.H.ALLEN&Co m 13, WATERLOO PLACE, S.W.. 
 
 (PUBLISHERS TO THE INDIA OFFICE), 
 
 To whom Communications for the Editor, and Advertisements 
 are requested to be addressed. 
 
Subscription, 32s. per annum. Postage Free. Or in 
 Monthly Parts, price 3s. 
 
 PRECIS OF OFFICIAL PAPERS, 
 
 BEING 
 
 ABSTEACTS OF ALL PAELTAMENTAEY EETUENS 
 
 DIRECTED TO BE PRINTED BY 
 
 BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. 
 
 "Messrs. Allen have commenced the publication of a most useful work, the 
 need of which has been felt for a long time, though until now no one has had the 
 
 courage to attempt it The pricis is very well done."— Journal of the 
 
 Statistical Society, June, 1880. 
 
 " There is no doubt as to the value of most parliamentary publications, but 
 few persons have the time or inclination to wade through them, and thus much 
 valuable matter is missed, but in this prtcis Messrs. Allen and Co. give an outline 
 of just what is required." — Iron Trade Bewiew. 
 
 " Messrs. Allen & Co.'s book is composed of abstracts of all returns directed to 
 be printed by either or both of the Houses of Parliament, and the work has 
 evidently been done by practised pr&cis writers who understand how to reach the 
 important features of Government papers." — Liverpool Daily Courier. 
 
 " This is a publication which supplies a great want. We gladly welcome thi« 
 work, both for reading and for reference." — United Service Gazette. 
 
 " The papers are carefully condensed." — British Mail. 
 
 "In the case of statistical returns it is especially good." — Cambridge Chronicle. 
 
 " This is not a Blue-book; but none of them can exceed it in value. Every 
 business man will have it upon the desk corner for reference, and it should be 
 found on the table of every public reading room and private library." — Western 
 Times. 
 
 " A most useful work of reference."— The Bailway News. 
 
 "This is a very important work, and its perusal will place readers on a far 
 higher intellectual level and acquaintance with the parliamentary papers than 
 most embryo members of Parliament possess." — Finance Chronicle and Insurance 
 Circular. 
 
 " This serial is calculated to be of much service."— Iron. 
 
 " The above contains a vast amount of valuable information and statistics." — 
 Sunday Times. 
 
 "We scarcely need add that it is a valuable work." — Herapath's Bailway Journal. 
 
 " As a book of reference, promises to be of inestimable value to public men, 
 journalists, economists, historical students, and, indeed, all who are interested in 
 national progress and contemporary politics." — The Statist. 
 
 " The difficult work of summarising is extremely well exeouted. Both paper 
 and type are good." — Broad Arrow. 
 
 " An excellent publication." — The Farmer. 
 
 "Messrs. Allen & Co. earn the gratitude of all who require to keep themselve* 
 acquainted with the contents of parliamentary papers by the publication of this 
 precis. The compilation has been made with discretion, and will be found extremely 
 valuable and useful for reference." — Dundee Advertiser. 
 
 "As a handy work of reference, and a means of saving time and labour, it win 
 be highly appreciated." — Allen's Indian Mail. 
 
 " The utility of the pricis is very considerably heightened by an admirable 
 table of contents numerically and alphabetically arranged." — The Bailway News and 
 Joint Stock Journal. 
 
 " The pricis of official papers will give new value to the parliamentary returns." 
 — Lvuerpool Courier. 
 
 " Nous croyons rendre service au public et a ceux de nos confreres qui ne la 
 connaitraient pas, en leur signalent cette publication nouvelle."— 3fonit#ur d— 
 tnterits Materials, Brussels. 
 
 London : W. H. ALLEN & CO., 13, WATERLOO-PLACE. 
 
RETURN TO the circulation desk of any 
 University of California Library 
 or to the 
 NORTHERN REGIONAL LIBRARY FACILITY 
 Bldg. 400, Richmond Field Station 
 University of California 
 Richmond, CA 94804-4698 
 
 ALL BOOKS MAY BE RECALLED AFTER 7 DAYS 
 
 • 2-month loans may be renewed by calling 
 (510)642-6753 
 
 • 1-year loans may be recharged by bringing 
 books to NRLF 
 
 • Renewals and recharges may be made 4 
 days prior to due date. 
 
 DUE AS STAMPED BELOW 
 
 SENT ON ILL 
 
 SEP 2 2000 
 
 U. C. BERKELEY 
 
 12,000(11/95) 
 
YB 26643 
 
 511466 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UBRARY 
 
.