10 OCTOBER 1896, Page 12

A Ruler of Incl. By P. Thorold Dickson and Mary

L. Pechell. (Digby and Long.)—We are not quite certain whether the very

unsatisfactory Commissioner Travers, who is dismissed for corrup- tion, or Captain Holt, is meant for the " Ruler of Ind." Possibly we are intended to see the bad and the good. Anyhow the tale, which relates their fortunes and the fortunes of the women who brought them into collision, is well told. And there is a spirited narrative of a rising of Chinese miners in Penang. The inquisi- tive M.P., the Baboo official, and various other characters in Indian life, are vigorously presented. One or other of the writers is evidently an expert.