“This excellent and useful book supplies a real want, and gives to the reader a broad geographical description of the real continent of India.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 160. My. 19, ‘05. 1060w. |
“Avoiding ‘statistics and details,’ the author has here compressed into one volume an immense amount of geographical and ethnological information regarding the peninsula itself and the frontier, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Assam, and Burma. The most valuable part of ‘India’ is, of course, the geographical description, where the author is on his own ground. The literary-historical side is mortar to the bricks of the altar.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 117. F. 9, ‘05. 230w. |
“He has produced a topographical description of the Indian empire which, in spite of minor errors.... is not only interesting to read, but accurate and well proportioned on the whole.”
| + + — | Nature. 71: 268. Ja. 19, ‘05. 1210w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 2. Ja. 7, ‘05. 570w. (Summary of facts in book.) |
“His volume has the ring of authority on every page. It is equally valuable for steady reading or as a work of reference.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 95. Ja. 7, ‘05. 150w. |
“The product of years of study in the country of which he writes.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 251. F. ‘05. 200w. |