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NEW BOOKS.
Life of Lord Lawrence.
By R. Bosworth Smith, M. A., late Fellow of Trinity College, Assistant Master at Harrow School: author of “Carthage and the Carthaginians,” “Rome and Carthage,” “Mohammed and Mohammedanism,” etc. With maps and portraits. 2 vols., 8vo, $5.
These two volumes contain the biography of one of the most remarkable Englishmen of our time. John Lawrence exemplified the highest and most characteristic qualities and virtues of an Anglo-Saxon, and his life is the history, more or less complete, of British rule in India during the most memorable period since Englishmen first gained a footing there. Lawrence’s career is first traced, from the time when he went out as a young student for the Indian service, through the rapid steps that brought him into positions of authority and showed his extraordinary tact and firmness in dealing with the native population, up to the time when his position as the master of Indian administration was recognized in his appointment to the Lieutenant Governorship of the Punjab. But it is of course in the period of the mutiny that Lawrence, as the “Savior of the Punjab,” reaches his full development, and it would not be easy to exaggerate the power of this part of Mr. Bosworth Smith’s narrative in awakening enthusiasm for his subject. But it will be found that Mr. Smith has given the work even greater claims to attention, by making of it one of those great biographies which form, perhaps, one of the most interesting groups in literature—the few books in which a vigorous individuality is brought out with perfect success.
Recollections of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley,