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This article focuses on the book "The Making of British India," by Ramsay Muir. When people consider the mass of original documents available for historians and students of the British period in India, the need of a volume of this convenient compass becomes apparent. While catalogues of official documents are more or less accessible, or are rapidly becoming so, together with the results of the valuable researches of enthusiasts like George Forrest and S.C. Hill, yet a small, synthetic collection of this material has always been desired. In this volume Muir has included the most important dispatches, treaties, statutes, and other documents from 1756 to 1858.

This article presents information about the vernacular literature in India. The vernacular literature, of late years, has received a great impetus from the reactionary wave that has been sweeping over India. The immediate result of the introduction of English education in Hindustan was to infatuate the young men of the land with, a reverence for everything Occidental, good, bad, and indifferent. Many men tried their hand at fiction. Indeed, novels in the different dialects are becoming very popular in this country. Not only do the half-educated men devour them, but the middle class and aristocratic women with primary schooling are greedy for them.

his article presents information on the book "Strange Glory," by author L.H. Myers. This book is only a superficial resemblance to the series of novels which Myers is writing about a group of people in sixteenth-century lndia. The first three members of that series were collected last summer into a volume which made Myers seem suddenly to have become one of the best of contemporary novelists. The reason for the failure of "Strange Glory" can scarcely be that Myers knows little or nothing about modern Louisiana, where the story is set.

The article discusses books and authors. The author of "A Literary History of India," R.W. Frazer, has sought in "Indian Thought Past and Present," to condense into a small compass what might be called a Philosophic History of India. Ignoring for the novice the literary quality of his material, he presents lucidly and with constant reference to modern authorities, the history or the various religious and philosophical movements of the Aryan Hindus, occasionally including illustrative matter from the beliefs of the wild tribes.

The article discusses books and authors. Author E.M. Forster has made an eagerly awaited reappearance with "The Hill of Devi." This is not a novel, nor a critical study of writing, nor a series of essays on the state of the world-though it has elusive elements of all three. It is an emendated, glossed, and enlarged diary of the author's first months in India (1912-13) and of India revisited in 1921, interspersed with letters to relatives and friends and some of their replies. In essence, however, "The Hill of Devi" is a sketch book for "A Passage to India," which is the most discerning book ever written about India.