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Scotsman. — "Anglo-Indians will be very glad, and not at all surprised, 

 at the appearance of another edition of the ' Lays of Ind,' in which Aliph 

 Cheem sketches and satirises typical phases and characters of European 

 life in India. The book is very handsomely got up, and is profusely 

 illustrated, most of the woodcuts, which are as funny as the verse, being 

 new." 



7 he Week. — "The announcement of a new, enlarged, and illustrated 

 edition of the * Lays of Ind ' will be 

 very welcome to retired Anglo-Indians. 



At the present day, Aliph 



Cheem reigns supreme in the Indian 

 world of light literature. No writer 

 has ever hit off more happily the comical 

 peculiarities of Anglo-Indian life, or 

 chastened his merriment by more tender 

 touches of gentle sadness. The story 

 of 'The Deserted Bun- 

 galow,' on the isle of 

 Seringapatam, creates 

 a choking sensation 

 of which no man need 

 feel ashamed ; but for 

 the most part the 

 author strives to call 

 forth laughter rather 

 than tears, and his 

 efforts are usually 

 crowned with success. 

 Nothing more amusing 

 need be desired than 

 the ' Two Thumpers,' or 'Jinks's Leave,' or 'The Sensitive Fakeer,' or 

 ' O'Leary's Revenge' on Captain de Horse Shou Pinne, or 'The Paint- 

 ing of the Statue.' The miserable ' Loafer,' on the other hand, is a 

 fitting pendant to Hood's ' Bridge of Sighs,' while ' The Letter from 

 Home ' touches a responsive chord in the breast of all who have long been 

 severed from the old country and its sadly sweet associations. In 

 * Perfide Albion' we have the apocryphal tale of the taking of Perim, and 

 in ' The Contented Sub ' we come upon another old friend — the subaltern 

 who spent at his club the two years he was supposed to be doing duty on 

 that desolate rock." 



Broad Arrow, March Sth, 1879. — " No one who has read the former 

 editions of these ' Lays of Ind ' will feel any surprise at the appearance of 

 a sixth edition, for the Lays are really what they profess to be — comic, 

 satirical, and descriptive poems, illustrative of English Life in India. 

 Aliph Cheem is a keen observer of men and things, and his verse is as 

 easy and flowing as that of the immortal Ingoldsby himself. This is high 

 praise, but it is deserved. We notice many new pieces in the present 

 edition, and these not among the least amusing, for instance: — 'Lord 

 Courtly,' 'My Moonshee,' ' Cardozo, the Half-Caste,' 'The Dead Shot,' 

 ' My Letter to the Beak,' 'Captain Sprint's Wager.' We further notice 

 that most of the illustrations are new." 



ROSE DE PHLAIME. 



IV. Thackcr 6^ Co.^ London. Thacker^ Spink 6^ G?., Calcutta. 



