IMPERIALISM AND DEMOCRACY. Unionist Principles applied to Modern Problems. By ARTHUR PAGE, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, Author of the 'Licensing Bill, 1908. Is it Just?' With Introduction by the Right Hon. Austen Chamberlain, M. P. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.
PIKE AND CARRONADE. By Major G. F. MacMUNN, D.S.O., R.F.A. With Frontispiece in colours. Crown 8vo. 6s.
"Major MacMunn belongs to that class of soldiers who have not only moved in the mid-current of action, but are also fortunately possessed of the gift of turning their experience to legitimate literary account. It was only natural that he should join the band of brilliant soldier-authors whose contributions have so long been one of the special features of 'Blackwood.'... And he has not only written well himself; he has been the cause of good writing in others, a gallant exploit of his youth having been celebrated in one of the best modern military ballads by the late Mr A. H. Beesly. But while it is good to have seen and done exciting things and to be able to write about them, the mere gift of narration, valuable as it is, is greatly enhanced when the writer has imagination and a sense of historic perspective as well. A good many of these stories and studies are based on experiences which have fallen to the lot of scores of British officers in the last fifteen or twenty years, on the Indian frontier or in Burma or in South Africa. But while few could have told them as well as Major MacMunn, fewer still could follow him in the more difficult task of conveying the sense of the changelessness of the immemorial East, or of reading in the present traces of 'old, unhappy, far-off things and battles long ago.'"—Spectator.
"A mighty hunter."—Globe.
"A great shikari."—Sportsman.
"Its variety is extraordinary."—Times.
SPORT IN FIVE CONTINENTS. By A. E. LEATHAM. Demy 8vo. With Illustrations. 15s. net.
WHEN KINGS RODE TO DELHI. By GABRIELLE FESTING, Author of 'From the Land of Princes,' 'John Hookham Frere and his Friends,' 'On the Distaff Side,' &c. Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d. net. Illustrated.
This work shows the charm and romance of Indian history, it brings into relief the great and inspiring characters who have played a part in it, instead, as so many writers have done, of harping only upon the meanness and cruelty with which it has been defaced. The best friends of India have longed for such a book for many years, and will rejoice that it has at last been written. It is as readable as a novel, and of an interest far exceeding that of most fiction.
"It might have been supposed that our imagination would easily have been kindled by the story of the splendid princes who gloried and drank deep in the gardens and marble palaces by the banks of the Jamna.... But a book was still wanted which would make a wider public appreciate the charm of this romantic epoch. Such a book has, I think, at last appeared under the title, 'When Kings Rode to Delhi.' The particular merit of Miss Festing is that she feels the pathos and romance which hang about the crumbling walls of Delhi, and makes us feel it too."—Sir Theodore Morison, K.C.I.E., in Blackwood's Magazine.