W. TH ACKER cy CO. LONDON. 



Seventh Edition. Profusely Illustrated. 



LAYS OF IND. 



By ALIPH CHEEM. 



COMIC, SATIRICAL, AND DESCRIPTIVE POEMS, 



ILLUSTRATIVE OF 



ANGLO-INDIAN LIFE. 

 Handsomely bound. Cloth, gilt edges. Rs. 7. 



REVIEWS. 



"This is a remarkably bright little book. 'Aliph Cheem, 

 supposed to be the nam de plume of an officer in the 18th Hussars, 

 is, after his fashion, an Indian Bon Gaultier. In a few of the poems 

 the jokes, turning on local names and customs, are somewhat esoteric ; 

 but, taken throughout, the verses are characterised by high animal 

 spirits, great cleverness, and most excellent fooling." — The 

 World. 



"Aliph Cheem presents us in this volume with some highly 

 amusing ballads and songs, which have already in a former 

 edition warmed the hearts and cheered the lonely hours of 

 many an Anglo-Indian, the pictures being chiefly those of Indian 

 life. There is no mistaking the humour, and at times, indeed, 

 the fun is both 'fast and furious.' Many portions remind us 

 of the ' Bab Ballads.' One can readily imagine the merriment created round the camp fire by the recitation of ' The Two 

 Thumpers,' which is irresistibly droll. . . . The edition before us is enlarged, and contains illustrations by the author, 

 in addition to which it is beautifully printed and handsomely got up, all which recommendations are sure to make the name 

 of Aliph Cheem more popular in India than ever." — Liverpool Mercury. 



" 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 Homeopathic 

 Review. 



" Former editions of this entertaining book having been received with great favour by the public and by the press, a new 

 edition has been issued in elegant type and binding. The author, although assuming a non deplume, is recognised as a dis- 

 tinguished cavalry officer, possessed of a vivid imagination and a sense of humouf 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. Anglo-Indian terms and usages are skilfully 

 employed, and even what appears to some the uneventful life of a secluded station is made to yield incidents for humourous 

 description." — -Capital and Labour, May i"jth, 1876. 



" 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 Anglo-Indians the lively verses of 'Aliph Cheem 

 must be very well known, while to those who have not yet be- 

 come acquainted with them we can only say read them on the 

 first opportunity. To those not familiar with Indian life they 

 may be specially commended for the picture which they give of 

 many of its lighter incidents and conditions, 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 wood- 

 cuts, of which some are by the author, whom Indian gossip, by 

 the way, has identified with Captain Yeldham, of the iSth 

 Hussars." — Bath Chronicle. 



