The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-04-30
SOME NEW BOOKS.
Hunter. story of India.


H"h'of' wv
We have received from Messrs. LonRmahs.
Green Il Co. the nrst volume OF Il hls'o'V "
British INDIA. by Sir WILLIAM "iLsoN huNisA'
Vice-President OF the hoyal hsIatlc "'cAe.'' !"
the work. or which this Is the nrst INSTRUMENT
the author has endeaVored 10 compieoo TASK
which has occupied u large part Oh MS IRE. ~
was thirty-iohr years az" 'hat ~ "1,entI''
was drawn to the historical materials eNtantlh
the record rooms OF bcLgni' an" Tue 'ha"ir'e7
which h" then began have been sihco prose,
euted IN til" archives "t Eng laid' tortuRaI ana
Holland. His researches nave "" 'o co"-
ciusion that the popular nreseh'lneh. Oh ,he
East India company as n sovereign ruier VII"
vast provinces """ ''""n''
der its ohscnrrs the most character-
istic achievement OF 'he fus.'S" h"','" II"
dia. As n matter ~ 'nct, thaC "'n,eEe"nen.
was no sudden triumph nut an eNn.p'No"",
indonittah'e endurance dufihR " century a."
n hall Of ILLUSTRATION ana ueisat' AS t"e hns-
liah were. III the emu 10 WISH 'o"ei III "
East greater than that OF any o'het huropea"
people. 40 was their traihihe LOT w" .aek W
be harder ann more prolonRe"' 0' ""''""
Hunter Is not one on tnose VINO arc acruS-
toned 10 reRaru r"ns,ahu nu'"'
an isolateh iacI III mo ""r'ue "e.o'',
considers fhat ms Wow noes 'hJ"S,''e u '"e
sontheh'al in''o"H' ""u' '" 7ctne
plaIhN 'ho w
narratives NJ Ahs'o-As'a''c RUE ~ NV
sense. fnGian" - out u" reSr"u"l, ga"
o. an inheritance pa'h,u'iV amasSe" Wy hn.
rope in ASIA uuflns tue 'ast iour 'en'"''oH, l"
that long labor. no" one '"r'stIn" "atio"'
then another. canl' oo 'he '''"'' i"oi' pt's
ross. as a whoie' however WIZ
formed a selnei u" TN" 'm.me'uuiia' eo"nN'
between the East ana 'he vest nur'nk oaGn
successive stage OF 'nat ""nn'ct u etrusss
renecten tne Sp't't w wv ~. "' ",
territoria! IN the ancient "ord' ",tt"i' "".
Religious III the m'uu'e uNoe' "I,",' ""u
mercantile IN inc ne" hurope ""cn 'ho"
awoke; developing mo IL n'N.ai,. onnu
cial and p"iitical comolha'ionso ZIG 'o"p'eA
modern word.
rms preliminary 'o.uuie ."fties VI on''.o
1873. wheh tue S'rusI'eot Wv pu'.n :" NV
English Tor me con'roi OF tne opice A,ch,pe'aso
was temporarily closed III IaVor OF 'he iorniel
people NY the Tragedy VI Ano'sna. Va
pages. many ar" ueNo'e" y uep'e'ihk' y wy
most part rom primary sources II -,
phases OF the aGe-iohe cohn'c' between '"e
East ana the west. h'ter s'ahee a, 'ne ON
mercial meaning OF the sttusgie 10 the peoples
OF antiquity. the scene OF the his'or'cA' urana
opens with the ottoman power III pusSess'ono
the lndo-Europeah traue rou'eS' II mrs 7
oiscloses the capture '"e ocean nik"""seU
Asia by PORTUGAL an EXPLOIT "ncn EN-
At the time q maritime extension =" Ine
Crusades. and which turned tho flank
NJ Islam in It's sixteenth century srapple
~,.h Chris,ordon Tha sacond act sets forth
the contest OF the Protestant sea powers of
northern Europe with the Catholic sea powers
OF the south Tor the position when Christen.
dom had won in the East. Portugal. forced
1nder the bjsot rule OF Philip II, was dragged
Into his wars with England ana the Nether-
lands. and her fleets. which had grown up on
tha Aaiatic trade. went to swell the wreck OF
u . ''"n M n onnoin.oa =, E,i-s.
the Armada. me TASK appointed 10 Eliza
bethan England stands out as a struggle. not
a, protestantism against Catholicism alone.
hn.h. woouh
put aRalnst, athollclsW equipped ny the "eaith
OF both the West and the East Indies. Before
Portugal could break loose from her sixty
'oi'.e"' -"
years captivity to spain. her supremacy In the
East had passed to the Dutch and the English.