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Anglo-Indians by the well-known series of books 

 published by Messrs. Thacker & Co., of London 

 and Calcutta. They are The Tribes on my Frontier, 

 An Indian Naturalist's Foreign Policy, which was 

 published in 1883, and of which a seventh edition 

 appeared in 1910. This book deals with the common 

 birds, beasts, and insects in and around an Indian 

 bungalow, and it should be put into the hands of 

 every one whose lot is cast in India. It will open 

 their eyes to the beauty and interests of their 

 surroundings in a truly wonderful way, and may 

 be read again and again with increasing pleasure 

 as one's experience of Indian life increases. 



This was followed in 1889 by Behind the Bungalow, 

 which describes with charming insight the strange 

 manners and customs of our Indian domestic ser- 

 vants. The witty and yet kindly way in which 

 their excellencies and defects are touched off is 

 delightful, and many a harassed mem-sahib must 

 bless Eha for showing her the humorous and human 

 side of her life surrounded as it is by those necessary 

 but annoying inhabitants of the Godowns behind 

 the bungalow. A tenth edition of this book was 

 published in 1911. 



The Naturalist on the Prowl was brought out in 

 1894, and a third edition was published in 1905. 

 It contains sketches on the same lines as those in 

 The Tribes, but deals more with the jungles, and 

 not so much with the immediate surroundings of 

 the bungalow. The very smell of the country is 



