18 NOVEMBER 1893, Page 10

The Brahman's Plot. By the Rev. W. T. Wilkins. (Religious

Tract Society.)—This is "a story of two friends," the scene being laid in India, and it is told in a very simple, unpretending style. The two friends are old acquaintances in the realm of fiction, the "industrious and the idle apprentice." The idle apprentice drinks and gambles, habits which he has formed in England, and which he is not likely to shako off in India. However, the efforts of his friends, and the patience of his wife—who, by the way, was extraordinarily foolish in marrying him—are not thrown away in the end. The "plot" concerns the industrious one, who is twice put in great danger by the machinations of an evil-minded Brah- man. The tale shows aspects of Anglo-Indian life of which ordinary fiction tells us but little.