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INDIAN IDYLLS.— By an Idle Exile. Crown 8vo, cloth. Bs. 2-8. 



Contents : — The Maharajah's Guest — The Major's Mess Clothes — In a 

 Haunted Grove — How we got rid of Hunks — My Wedding Day — Mrs. Cara- 

 mel's Bow- Wow — The Tables Turned — A Polo Smash — After the Wily Boar 

 — In the Rajah's Palace — Two Strings — A Modern Lochinvar — My First Snipe 

 — Mrs. Dimple's Victim — Lizzie; a Shipwreck — How the Convalescent Depot 

 killed a Tiger— Faithful unto Death — The Haunted Bungalow — Christmas 

 with the Crimson Cuirassiers — In Death they were not Divided. 



"A pleasant little book of short stories and sketches, bright and light for 

 the most part, dealing with frays and feasting, polo and pigsticking, with a 

 ghost story thrown in by way of relief." — Saturday Review. 



"All these are thoroughly Indian in colour and tone, but are not the 

 Jess amusing and sprightly matter for reading in idle half hours." — 

 Daily Telegraph. 



" A series of crisp little stories ... we shall be surprised if it fails to 

 'fecch' the public who have had nothing better to amuse them since the 

 lamented Aberigh Mackay astonished Anglo-India with his Sir Ali Baba's 

 revelations." — Express. 



THE TRIBES ON MY FRONTIER.— An Indian Naturalist's For- 

 eign Policy. By Eha. With 50 Illustrations by F. C. Mackae. 

 Imp. 16mo. Uniform with " Lays of Ind." Fourth Edition. Rs. 7. 



"We have only to thank our Anglo-Indian naturalist for the delightful 

 book which he has sent home to his conn try men in Britain. May he live to 

 give us another such." — Chambers 1 Journal. 



"A most charming series of sprightly and entertaining essays on what may 



be termed the fauna of the Indian Bungalow We have no doubt 



that this amusing book will find its way into every Anglo-Indian's library." — 

 Allen's Indian Mail. 



" This is a delightful book, irresistibly funny in description and illustration, 

 but full of genuine science too There is not a dull or on in- 

 structive page in the whole book." — Knowledge. 



" It is a pleasantly-written book about the insects and other torments of 

 India which make Anglo-Indian life unpleasant, and which can be read with 

 pleasure even by those beyond the reach of the tormenting things Eha 

 describes." — Graphic. 



INDIA IN 1983.— A BEPRINT OF THIS CELEBRATED PROPHESY OF 

 Native Rule in India. Fcap. 8vo. Re. 1. 



" Instructive as well as amusing." — Indian Daily News. 



"There is not a dull page in the hundred and thirty-seven pages of which it 

 consists." — Times of India. 



REGIMENTAL RHYMES and other Verses.— By Kentish Bag. 



Imp. l6mo. [In the Press. 



AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SPIN.— By May Edwood, author of " Elsie 



Ellerton," " Stray Straws," &c. [In the Press. 



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