LAND AND WATER 
December 5, 19 14 
* TALES FROM THE EAST 
MR. WILSON has been most successful in his attempt 
to make the wondrous stories of the Ramayana 
and Mahabharate attractive to quite young readers. 
The task was one of exceedingly great difficulty, as any 
student and lover of the original texts can vouch. But the 
essence and atmosphere is most excellently preserved. 
He has also been most fortunate in receiving a most com- 
petent illustrator, Mr. F. C. Pape, who has not fallen into 
the conventional error of colouring his native heroines 
chocolate brown, but has given them the true degree of 
fairness characteristic of the high-caste Aryan type. He has 
also caught a subtle suggestion of the best Hindoo illustrators 
which may be seen in the Queen's collection at the British 
Museum, and which adds most materially to the charm of the 
whole work. 
* " The Indian Story Book." Retold by Richard Wilson. With 
sixteen coloured plates by Frank C. Pape. {Macmillan & Co.) ys. 6d. 
* HALF OF HIS LIFE 
VERY appropriately another edition of this book has 
just been published containing the progress of a man 
from subaltern to commander-in-chief in India. The 
work contains forty-four illustrations and numerous maps, 
and is exceedingly valuable as a military history of India 
during the past half-century. In his preface to the first 
edition Earl Roberts observes that the natives of India are 
particularly observant of character and intelligent in gauging 
the capabilities of those who govern them, and it is because 
the English Government is trusted that a mere handful of 
Englishmen are able to direct the administration of a country 
with nearly three hundred millions of inhabitants differing in 
race, religion, and manners of life. He reminds us that his 
father and himself between them spent nearly ninety years in 
India, and. in conclusion, he remarks : "I send out this book 
in the earnest hope that the friendly anticipations of those 
who advised me to write it may not be seriously disappointed, 
and that those who care to read an unvarnished tale of Indian 
life and adventure will bear in mind that the writer is a 
soldier and not a man of letters, and will, therefore, forgive 
all faults of style or language." 
• " Fortv-one Years in India." By Field Marshal Karl Roberts. 
V.C. (Macmillan & Co.) 6s. 
FOR RECRUITING 
" Punch " are issuing a series of posters, leaflets, and illustrations 
to 'assist recruiting ; and we take this opportunity of printing below 
a powerful poem which appeared in " Punch " on November 4 : — 
TO A FALSE PATRIOT. 
He came obedient to the Call ; 
He might have shirked like half his mates 
Who, while their comrades fight and fall, 
Still go to swell the football gates. 
And you, a patriot in your prime, 
You waved a flag above his head. 
And hoped he'd have a high old tin.c. 
And slapped him on the back and said : 
" You'll show 'em what we British are ! 
Give us your hand, old pal, to shake " ; 
And took him round from bar to bar 
And made him drunk^for England's sake. 
That's how you helped him. Yesterday, 
Clear-eyed and earnest, keen and hard, 
He held himself the soldier's way — 
And now they've got him under guard. 
That doesn't hurt you ; you're all right ; 
Your easy conscience takes no blame ; 
But he, poor boy, with morning's light. 
He eats his heart out, sick with shame. 
What's that to you ? You understand 
Nothing of all his bitter pain ; 
You have no regiment to brand ; 
You have no uniform to stain ; 
No vow of service to abuse. 
No pledge to King and country due ; 
But he had something dear to lose, 
And he has lost it — thanks to you. 
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