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Br THE SAME AUTHOR. 



SPOKT AND POLITICS UNDER A 

 EASTERN SKY. 



Demv 8vo, 21s. net. 



Athenaeum. — "A useful contribution to our somewhat scanty sources of informa- 

 tion about tracts of country invested at this moment with peculiar interest." 



St James's Gazette. — "A very varied and fascinating stor^ of travel in some of 



the most interesting quarters of Asia The picture of the capital of Seistan, where, 



within the last couple of years, a British Agent has been established, and of the covert 

 conflict of Russian and British interests in this important strategic province are very 

 interesting to the student of international politics, as well as for the sake of the 

 entertaining narrative itself. Excellent, too, is the account of the big-game shoot- 

 ing in the Himalayan highlands." 



Pall Mall Gazette.—" We hope Lord Ronaldshay's book will help sluggish thinkers 

 at home to realise how deeply we are involved, and how little we can afford to relax 

 our influence on the region that lies between the Afghan frontier and the Persian 

 Gulf." 



Civil and Military Gazette. — "A bright and amusing book of travel The 



style is chatty and unpretentious, and the volume will be welcome to those who are 

 wearied of the rigmarole of political theses which constitutes the stock-in-trade of 

 the present day magazine-article writer when he discourses upon the affairs of foreign 

 countries. The photographs — the author's own— with which the book is illustrated 

 are excellent throughout." 



Times. — " Two themes there are which have justified the existence of many books 

 of travel and seldom fail to wake a sympathetic echo in the mind of the Englishman. 

 A passion for sport and a taste for politics are innate in him, and a book which 

 reminds him of either fact or both does not generally make its appeal in vain. Lord 

 Ronaldshay's book, as its title declares, avowedly makes this appeal ; and by a grati- 

 fying simplicity of arrangement sport and politics are relegated to distinct halves of 

 it, so that in perusing it neither the sportsman nor the politician need, unless he 

 chooses, enter upon alien ground His story is an efifective, if involuntary, testi- 

 mony to his pluck and powers of endurance, which, on the whole, were very well 

 rewarded. It will probably attract others besides sportsmen, for the wild regions 

 above Kashmir and on the confines of Chinese Tibet always fascinate the reader, and 

 Lord Ronaldshay's narrative, while making no pretentions to literary adornment, 

 shows that he felt a delighted sympathy with the spirit of the vast solitudes through 

 which he wandered, and— more essential still— that he really describes things as he 

 saw them." 



Westminster Gazette. — "Lord Ronaldshay's volume stands out from the average 

 sportsman's record. First of all, there is a ring of enthusiasm for the lonely heights 

 and the beauty of the wilderness throughout the whole book, which is very refreshing 

 in its boyishness and candour. Next, the roads chosen, first ou Asiatic hill-tops, and 

 afterwards from Simla through Beluchistan and the Caspian by land to London, are 

 almost entirely off what is now becoming the beaten track of the hunter of big game ; 

 and last, but not least, the author's dauntless and cheerful perseverance in excep- 

 tional hardships and trials of patience, lend a peculiar interest to every page." 



Spectator. — " Lord Ronaldshay has achieved a rare success ; he has written a good 

 book of travels. The style is simple and well suited to the matter ; the interest is 

 not sacrificed to a pretence of fine writing ; and the author has sufificient literary 

 sense to produce the eflect at which he aims, whether he writes as a sportsman or a 

 politician." 



WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, Edinburgh and London. 



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