ART. VII.-THE SONTHAL REBELLION. 1. "The Friend of India," July-December, 1855. 2. The Rajmahal Hills, or Damun-i-koh; Journal of a Tour, &c. by Capt. W. S. Sherwill, 66th Goorkha Regt., 1. Official and Descriptive Catalogue of the Madras Exhibi- 2. Madras Exhibition of 1855. Catalogue Raisonnée of the thirty Classes into which the Articles in the Exhibi- tion are divided, with an Index of the Subjects com- prised in each Class, and of the names of Exhibitors : Compiled for the use of the Jurors. By Lieut. H. P. Hawkes, S. A., Commissary General, Assistant to the Director of Arrangements to the Madras Exhibition. Published by authority of the Sub-Committee of Arts The History of Persia from the most early period to the present time. By Major General Sir John Malcolm, G. C. B. K. L. S., Governor of Bombay. A new edi- In five Books. London: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his shop in Paul's Church-yard at the Sir Anthony Sherley, his Relation of his Travels into Persia, the Dangers and Distresses which befel him in his Passage, both by Sea and Land, and his strange and un- expected Deliverences, his magnificent: entertainment in Persia, his honorable imployment there, hence as Embassadour to the Princes of Christendome, &c. &c. The Three Brothers, or the Travels and Adventures of Sir Printed and Published by J. C. MURRAY, for the Proprietor. ART. I.-CEYLON, PAST AND PRESENT. 1. Blue Books from Ceylon for the years 1836 to 1854. 2. Evidence taken before the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to enquire into administration of the Government of Ceylon, in 1849-50. 2 vols. 3. Ceylon Almanac, 1834 to 1855. 4. Colombo Newspapers, from 1834 to November, 1855, 313 ART. II.-PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY OF HINDOSTAN. 1. Khujeenuh ul Musàl. Lucknow. 1. Flora Indica: being a Systematic Account of the Plants of British India. By J. D. Hooker, M.D., F. R. S. and Thomas Thomson, M.D., F.L.S., Surgeon, H. E. I. C. S. Vol. I. London, 1855. 2. Illustrations of Himalayan Plants, from Drawings made for the late J. F. Cathcart, Esq., B. C. S. The Descriptions by J. D. Hooker, M.D., F.R.S. Folio. 3. Himalayan Journals; or Notes of a Naturalist in Ben- gal, the Sikkim, and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, &c. By J. D. Hooker, M.D., R.N.F.R.S., with Maps and Illustrations. A new edition. Svo. 4. Western Himalaya and Thibet: a Narrative of a Jour- ney through the Mountains of Northern India, dur- ing the years 1847-8. By Thomas Thomson, M.D., F.L.S., Surgeon, Bengal Army. 8vo. London, 1855. 5. Geographie Botanique Raisonnée. By M. Alphonse DeCandolle. 2 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1855. 6. Report of the Royal Bot. Garden at Paradenia. 1854. 7. Hortus Madraspatensis-Catalogue of Plants indige- nous and naturalized in the Agri-Horticultural So- 8. Report of the Government Botanical and Horticultural Garden, Ootacamund. 1853-54 and 55, ART. IV.-KUMAON AND ITS HILL-STATIONS. 1. Official Reports on the Province of Kumaon. By J. H. Batten, Esq., Commissioner of Kumaon. Agra. 1. The Odes of Hafiz, MS., Shiraz, 1801. 2. Waring's Tour to Shiraz. London, 1807. 3. Dissertations on Oriental Literature. London. 1792. ... ... ... ... 1. Report on the Administration of the Punjab for the 2. General Report on the Administration of the Punjab 3. Percy's Northern Antiquities. Edited by Blackwell,... 474 1. General Orders of the Bengal Army. 2. A Rough Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Irregu- lar Horse of the Bengal Army, with Hints for im- proving the Regular and Irregular Cavalry of that Presidency. By an old Cavalry Officer. 3. Hints on Irregular Cavalry. By Capt. Charles Far- quhar Trower, Major of Brigade, H. H. the Ni- 4. Remarks by an Officer of the Scinde Irregular Horse, on an article in the Calcutta Review, for March, 1846, entitled-" Hints on Irregular Cavalry, &c." 5. The use and application of Cavalry in War, from the text of Bismark. By Lieut. Col. North Ludlow ART. X.-LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN BENGAL. 1. Report on Lunatic Asylums in the Bengal Presidency; Published by order of the Government of the North Western Provinces. Calcutta, 1855. 2. Report on Insanity among Europeans in Bengal, found- ed on the experience of the Calcutta Lunatic Asylum. THE CALCUTTA REVIEW. MARCH, 1856. ART. I.-1. The Gong. By MAJOR VETCH. Edinburgh, 1852. 2. An Englishman's Life in India. London, 1853. 3. Tales of the Forest. London, 1853. By H. MOSES, M. D. 4. Sport in the Himalaya. By LIEUT. COL. MARKHAM. London, 1854. 5. A Selection from the Writings of the late Henry Torrens, B. A. Calcutta, 1854. 6. Bole Ponjis. By H. MEREDITH PARKER. London, 1851. 7. The Delhi Sketch Book. Delhi. 8. The Newspaper Press in India. ANGLO-INDIANS are not without honorable representatives in the realm of letters. Sir William Jones, Wilford, and Elphinstone enjoy a reputation scarcely inferior to that of Hastings, Wellesley, and Metcalfe, and yet we are hardly entitled to style ourselves a literary community. The fact is, that books do not necessarily constitute a literature. Many and weighty are the tomes put forth by the Asiatic Society, but the writers of those abstruse papers, men honored and honorable in their vocation, would not venture to claim a place in the sacred Walhalla of illustrious authors. Even those famous men whom we have mentioned, leaders of the heavy brigade of Anglo-Indian scholarship, would retreat modestly from that threshold, being themselves the first to acknowledge that as had been their work so must be their reward; as they had forced secrets from nature, or from the scarcely less reluctant obscurity of byegone ages, so they were to be honored as men of science, as antiquarians, as philologists; but inas A much as their written works had been only as it were the accidental supplement of their discoveries, they neither demanded nor wished to be judged by them. The energies of a great author are in his writings;-the writings of the most celebrated orientalists have been but the record of the practical work to which their energies had been devoted. Hence it follows that Sir William Jones, the greatest name in Anglo-Indian literature, is praised by hundreds, but read by units: hence it follows that Mount Stuart Elphinstone, the learned, faithful, painstaking and accomplished historian of India, is indeed an invaluable guide to the professional man or the deliberate student in India, but caviare to the general reader in England. It is no disparagement to those eminent men to whom India owes so much, to say that in the gift of expression they appear mostly to have been deficient. This is a deficiency which in this garrulous age we may not only pardon, but even envy in the case of men whose costiveness of words has been recompensed by copiousness of deeds: they did good service-better none-in ascertaining the condition and antecedents of the new countries of which England had become possessed, and if in the record of these discoveries they neither aimed at nor attained the supplementary reputation of being brilliant authors, we have little ground for wonder, and none for censure. But while this division of Indian worthies moves on with dignified confidence to its own proper resting place in the temple of Fame, nor cares to linger before the Court of Letters where its proper resting place is not, this latter Court is besieged by a noisier and inferior troop-peremptorily demanding admittance in the name of Anglo-Indian light literature. Poets it is confessed we have not. Biographers and historians are equally wanting: nor is this unnatural. We AngloIndians form, after all, not a nation but a colony; not even a colony but a garrison; we take our serious literature like our pale ale from the mother country; why should we produce what we can so easily import? But inasmuch as we are a community of educated Europeans, enjoying on the whole considerable leisure, what more natural than that we should expatiate in the more flowery fields of letters; that we should take our chance, nay that we should excel as epigrammatists, as writers of articles, as novelists or as wits? Certainly, this is the one style of literature which AngloIndian life has evinced a tendency to call forth; and it would appear at first sight as if the demand for amusement on the one hand, and the vacant hours which we all have to dispose of in this country on the other, did furnish a combination of circumstances favourable to a supply of successful literature. It |