"The Anglo-Indians." By Alice Perrin. (Methuen's Colonial Library.)
The author h: exercised care and discrimination in her studies of typical Anglo-Indians and her picture is realistic and effective. She writes of "those ti doing their duty almost unconsciously, towards their great feste life itself, giving her their children to do likewise in their turn. Normal, self-reliant people, hall-marked with hereditary faculty for work in exile." The impression gathered is that, with the hazard and adventure of the old days almost legendary, the Anglo-Indian of the present day steadily and quietly performs the business of administration, retaining the Briton's enthusiasm for sport as scape from long periods to amuse themselves with gossip, and the latest novel, and also the all important and constant care of marrying their daughters comfortably. These are the interests of which the story deals, revealing a solid standard of comfort and a passion for the right, the normal thing.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.