W. Thacker ^ Co., London. xv 



Landholding ; and the Relation of Landlord and 



Tenant in Various Countries of the World. By C. D. 

 Field, M.A., LL.D. 8vo., cloth. Es. 17-12. (36s.) 



" The latter half of this bulky volume is devoted to an exhaustive de- 

 scription and examination of the various systems of Land Tenure that have 

 existed or which now exist in British India. . . . We may take it 

 that as regards Indian laws and customs Mr Field shows himself to be 

 at once an able and skilled authority. In order, however, to render his 

 work more complete, he has compiled, chiefly from Blue-books and similar 

 public sources, a mass of information having reference to the land laws of 

 most European countries, of the United States of America, and our 

 Australasian colonies. . . . The points of comparison between the 

 systems of land tenure existing up till recently in Ireland, and the system 

 of land tenure introduced into India by the English under a mistaken 

 impression as tothe relative position of ryots and zemindars, are well brought 

 out by Mr. Field. He indicates clearly the imminence of a Land Question 

 of immense magnitude in India, and indicates pretty plainly his belief that 

 a system of tenancy ba^ed on contract is unsuited to the habits of the 

 Indian population, and that it must be abolished in favour of a system the 

 main features of which would be fixty of tenure and judicial rents." — Field. 



" A work such as this was urgently required at the present junction of 

 discussion upon the landowning question. Mi\ Justice Field has treated 

 his subject with judicial impartiality, and his style of writing is power- 

 ful and perspicuous." — Notes and Queines. 



" Mr. Justice Field's new work on ' Landholding, and the Eelation 

 OF Landloed and Tenant in Vaeious Countries,' supplies a want 

 much felt by the leading public men in Bengal. . . . He gives 

 a complete account of the agrarian question in Ireland up to the present 

 day, which is the best thing on the subject we have hitherto 

 seen. Then he has chapters as to the Roman law, the Feudal 

 system, English law, Prussian, French, German, Belgium, Dutch, Danish 

 Swedish, Swiss, Austrian, Italian, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian 

 and Turkish land laws, which . . . will enable controversialists to 

 appear omniscient. On the Indian law he tells us all that is known in 

 Bengal or applicable in this province." — Friend of India and Statesman. 



Bantings in India, with some Remarks on Diet 



and Things in General. By Surgeon-Major Joshua Duke. 

 Third Edition. Cloth. Ke. 1-8. 



Queries at a Mess Table. What shall we Eat ? 



What shall we Drink % By Surgeon- Major Joshua Duke. 

 Fcap. 8vo., cloth, gilt. Es. 2-4. 

 Culinary Jottings. A Treatise in Thirty Chapters, on 

 Reformed Cookery for Anglo-Indian Exiles. Based upon 

 Modern English and Continental principles. AVith thirty 

 Menus of Little Dinners worked out in detail, and an 

 Essay on our kitchens in India. By "Wyvern." 8vo., 

 cloth. Es. 5-8. 



