A Burmese Maid. By the Author of "Reginald Vernon." (The
llanthawaddy Press, Rangoon.)—A. Burmese heroine, and, indeed, Anglo-Burmese literature generally, are novelties. Mah Shway was a lovely and charming girl, but, it must be owned, a little unscrupulous. She fell in love with a young English prisoner, and finding that philtres did not advance her interests, hired some false witnesses whose evidence caused him a sentence of five years' detention, and so gave her another chance. The course of love still refased to run smooth. This time the disturbing force was a British army which took the town by storm, released the prisoner, and left Mah Shway lamenting. In the end, she had the good-sense to console herself with a stalwart Tataing, Bo Kwet by name. We cannot say much for the literary merit of A Burmese Maid, but it is an interesting novelty.
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