xo: A Buw's Eve, View: By the att of Ronsldshay-'Constable.
Prostate" By Bishop Whitehead. "Constable. 128.
These two books, both excellent, press me first of all as illustrations of the immense distance that has been travelled by the English mind in India during the past two decades. Those of us whose first acquaintance with the country dates back to the Curzon epoch can realize,' perhaps better than any other observers, what it means for present day Indian problems to be discussed, as they are here, with broad understanding by a Conservative ex-Governor of Bengal and a prelate who presided over the Madras diocese for} more than 20 years.
Lord Ronaldshay permits himself very wide range. The great Indian ages and buildings, the north-west) frontier, the village and the jungle, religion, public health, and the new industrialism—these and many other subjects are treated by him in al [volume that is unusually well packed. In the last, and by no means the least] interesting, section of the book the tremendous question of In simism is reviewed, in relation not, only to the Hindu tradition, but also to such hideous physical factors as malaria and the hookworm.
Lord Ronaldshay has little to say about the political and social con~ lets of the day; Bishop Whitehead, on the contrary, is mostly taken up with them, andthe has an excellent] chapter on Gandhi. His survey of the outlook for the Christian Church' and its social enterprises in India valuable and challenging; but I note tone interesting omission. Bishop] Whitehead was at one time a leading. advocate of the policy of concentrating missionary effort on the lower eastes and outcastes, to the neglect of the higher classes. Tt may well be that circumstances rather than policy must decide that. The Bi hop is surely right in linking th storm over the Ibert Bill 40 year ago with the action of General Dyer! and the recent Kenya decision as the boundaries of the crucial period in the relations between England and His general conclusion in 18, and not particularly hope-'No more Amritsars," Clemencannot rule India like that.'—"Di News."
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