“To many Anglo-Indians the lively verses of ‘Aliph Cheem’ must be very well known, while to those who have not yet become acquainted with them we can only say read them on the first opportunity. To those not familiar with Indian life they may be specially commended for the picture which they give of many of its lighter incidents and conditions, and of several of its ordinary personages.... We have read the volume with real pleasure, and we have only to add that it is nicely printed and elegantly finished, and that it has several charming woodcuts, of which some are by the author, whom Indian gossip, by the way, has identified with Captain Yeldham, of the 18th Hussars.”—Bath Chronicle.
“Satire of the most amusing and inoffensive kind, humour the most genuine, and pathos the most touching pervade these ‘Lays of Ind.’ ... From Indian friends we have heard of the popularity these ‘Lays’ have obtained in the land where they were written, and we predict for them a popularity equally great at home.”—Monthly Homœopathic Review.
“The author, although assuming a nom de plume, is recognised as a distinguished cavalry officer, possessed of a vivid imagination and a sense of humour amounting sometimes to rollicking and contagious fun. Many of his ‘Lays’ suggest recollections of some of the best pieces in the ‘Ingoldsby Legends,’ or in the ‘Biglow Papers’ of Russell Lowell, while revealing a character of their own.”—Capital and Labour.
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