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Police Notes. By G. G. B. Iver. (Lahore : Civil

and Military Gazette. 1 rupee 8 annas.)—This little book is written by an Indian Police officer for the benefit of young civilians joining the force from home, and, as Sir Charles Cleveland says in the Preface, it contains some useful and practical hints. Mr. Iver defends the police from the common charge of corruption or incompetence, and attributes the prevalence of murder in the Punjab to the undue leniency of the Judges and to the inveterate desire of the family of a murdered man to bring all their private enemies into the case by means of false evidence.