Sun Babies. By Cornelia Sorabji. Studies in colour by G.
H. (Mackie. 7s. Od. net.)—In these beautifully written sketches of Indian life Miss Sorabji brings the curious charm of her "baby friends," as she calls them, very vividly before us, and knows how to touch our hearts, but without even a shadow of senti- mentality. Whether she is telling us of the imps who became her self-constituted page-boys, of a Rani's children, or of her devoted yellow Chow, the book is full of movement and interest. She has chosen many wonderful Eastern scenes and described them for our delectation, but there is especial attraction about the glimpses we get of the lives of the women and children of our own class, which could only be given us by a writer such as Miss Sorabji. There is plenty of fun in the book, too, and we commend the story of the exorcism of the leg of mutton bone to our readers. The glamour of a Rani's garden and its peacock sentinels and of many lovely Eastern landscapes, glows through these pages and brings a gleam of sunshine and colour into our Northern winter. The illustrations are also full of charm, from the wonder. log, wide-eyed baby of the cover to the merry Bombay street "arab of the black-and-white tail-piece.
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