THE HIGHLANDS OF CENTRAL INDIA. 



Notes o?i the Forests and Wild Tribes, Natural History and Sports. 

 By CAPTAIN J. FORSYTH, 



Bengal Staff Corps. 

 New Edition, with Map and Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 



SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



FROM "the graphic." 



"This volume has the by no means common merit of being precisely what such a 

 book ought to be. Captain Forsyth was for many years Acting Conservator of 

 Forests, Central Provinces of India, and afterwards Deputy Commissioner of Nimar. 

 He writes like a scholar, a naturalist, and a sportsman, and with a very fair share of 

 literary skill ; and contrives in an easy unaffected fashion to give us a wonderful 

 amount of information concerning the hardly known region which was the scene of 

 his duties. ... A Shikari of very high pretensions he undoubtedly was, but, as we 

 have said, an ardent naturalist as well ; and he seems to have taken at least as much 

 pleasure in studying the denizens of hill and forest as in slaying them. . . . Though 

 Captain Forsyth considers tiger hunting as a mere effort of skill far inferior to the real 

 'blue ribbon' of sportsmanship, stalking the Indian bison, he confesses that it must 

 always have attractions of its own, and we heartily commend the chapter which 

 contains his adventures in the pursuit of the king of the jungle. We have not space 

 for extracts, so we must content ourselves by saying that a pleasanter volume in its 

 own way we have seldom had the good fortune to meet with." 



FROM "the ATHEN>EUM." 



" We have in Captain Forsyth's posthumous work a well-written and pleasing narra- 

 tive, containing much valuable information respecting the wild hill-tribes, some 

 admirable descriptions of scenery, an interesting account of the forests and the 

 system of conservancy, and very full details of sporting capabilities of the Central 

 Provinces, interspersed with many well-told and exciting incidents of a sportsman's 

 life ; for James Forsyth was a true hunter, and talks of ' poaching proclivities ' and 

 ' unsportsmanlike conduct ' as among the deadly sins. Captain Forsyth was a 

 keen observer, and his piges are full of su'^gestive remarks on the natural peculiarities 

 of the region which was the scene of his labours. . . . A perusal of this pleasant narra- 

 tive will furnish the reader with a complete account of the highlands of India, of their 

 forests, of their wild inhabitants, and of all the game that is met with in their recesses." 



FROM "the SATURDAY REVIEW." 



" In the volume now before us the lighter and more picturesque aspects of the 

 country form the subject of a popular and agreeable narrative from the pen of Captain 

 Forsyth. ... A rapid yet clear sketch of the physical geography of the district, with 

 an outline of the ethnology of the singularly marked tribes that inhabit it, will be 

 found in Captain Forsyth's introductory cliapter. . . . Captain Forsyth's duties 

 called upon him to explore the district, and to which he has devoted rare powers of 

 observation and great insight into character. We hardly know which to speak of 

 more highly, his accounts of the physical features, the scenery, and the natural 

 resources of the country, or what he has to tell us of the tribal distinctions, the 

 religious and social usages, and other strongly marked characteristics of the people. 

 ... In the volume at large he has bequeathed to the public an interesting record 

 of a career too early cut short, but already made memorable by duties faithfully and 

 ably discharged, as well as by a degree of promise which renders its premature close 

 the more acutely felt." 



FROM "the spectator." 



" We have left ourselves no space for any of the sporting adventures, of which there 

 are many in the volume, described with much spirit. Indeed, the whole book is 

 extremely well written, terse, clear, and picturesque, and it affords another instance 

 of the kind and degree of culture and abil ty that has been happily introduced into the 

 government and regulation of British India." 



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