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Reviews of " Lays of Ind." 



"The ' Lays' are not only Anglo-Indian in origin, but out-and-out Anglo-Indian in 

 subject and colour. To one who knows something of life at an Indian ' station ' they 

 will be especially amusing. Their exuberant fun at the same time may well attract the 

 attention of the ill-defined individual known as ' the general reader.'" — Scotsman. 



" To many An- 

 glo-Indians the 

 lively verses of 

 'Aliph Cheem' 

 must be very well 

 known, while to 

 those who have not 

 yet become ac- 

 quainted with them 

 we can only say 

 read them on the 

 first opportunity. 

 To those not fa- 

 miliar with Indian 

 life they may be 

 specially com- 

 mended for the picture which they give of many of its lighter incidents and con- 

 ditions, and of several of its ordinary personages. . . . We have read the volume 

 with real pleasure, and we have only to add that it is nicely printed and elegantly 

 finished, and that it has several charming woodcuts, of which some are by the author, 

 whom Indian gossip, by the way, has identified with Captain Yeldham, of the i8th 

 Hussaxs." — Baih Chronicle. 



" Satire of the most amusing and inoffensive kind, humour the most genuine, and 

 pathos the most touching pervade these ' Lays of Ind. "... From Indian friends 

 we have heard of the popularity these ' Lays ' have obtained in the land where they 

 were written, and we predict for them a popularity equally great at home."— 

 Monthly Homoeopathic Review. 



"The author, although assuming a no7n de plume, is recognised as a dis- 

 tinguished cavalry officer, possessed of a vivid imagination and a sense of humour 

 amounting sometimes to rollicking and contagious fun. Many of his ' Lays ' suggest 

 recollections of some of the best pieces in the ' Ingoldsby Legends,' or in the 

 • Biglow Papers ' of Russell Lowell, while revealing a character of their own. " 

 — Capital and Labour. 



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