18 FEBRUARY 1893, Page 25

Elsie Elleston, By May Edwood. (Thacker, Spink, and Co., Calcutta;

W. Thacker and Co., London.)—Miss Edwood wishes the public to know that "the life of the English in India is, in the main, as pure and good as it is elsewhere," and in this novel "depicts this phase of it." " In the main" is a salvo not alto- gether unnecessary, as one of the ladies in the story is only pre- vented from leaving her husband by hearing one of her children cry. She is the only grievous offender, but the whole set seem to us somewhat frivolous. Certainly, there is nothing elevated or instructive about their talk.