New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-15

N-- Albeit z Smith which illustrate this lightly
dome record of a uidwinter holiday, carry out
the open air quality OF the text
The Bwana 'Akuhwa Of a government dis
.rsct in India is as Lionel Portman puts IL in
h,z ..S+ation Studies 01ongmans, Green & COD,
Moses Samuel Solomon, Consul. Tribune,
AediIe Thane Marshal. Abbot, Viceroy, Sirdar
,,5 P-eu,ier In his particular dominion, besides
d,scharging the duties Of Postmaster General
suprerne Court Of Judicature, CHIEF Constable
Board of Agriculture War Office. Chancellor OF
che Fxcheouer First Second and Third Lords
Of the Treasury, Home Secretary Foreign sec
retary. Board Of Trade Master Of Rolls ano all
conceivable Lords Of Admiralty. In such
goodly company one need hardly be lonesome
and the author writes of his equatorial routine,
from which he is now released. with an easy
cheerfulness The ordinary days work at the
station filed as il Is with the curious incom-
natfbili,y Of ceremonial respect and Depart
mental harnpering of the subject races I'M
businesslike but shrewd temper and the English
Indebtedness, he is able to invest with some
charm. suggesting the CALLING monotony &C
cepted with good temper and hghtened by occa-
sdonal notes OF the ridiculous The description
Of the making out of monthly report has a
merry interpretive garrulousness- Nothing mas
happened to report He cannot report an OH
ciaI +our Of his district, because his nose has
l,een held TO the grindstone settling daily law
suits and administering the customs require
rnents He cannot complain Of this inability, De-
cause his chief doubtless knows that tours are
impossible with the present staff. and is weary
Of those complaints. Finally he hits on an in
spiration-
Is there nothing else? All. yes, there is one
item which has often served me before, ana VIII
vet do much good work IL L DO not press II 700
hardly The need of new prison is beginning
TO make itself felt at Eldala, and the Inatter
,11er1ts early attention. have some DOUBTS as
70 the possibility of controlling any large num-
her OF prisoners should occasion arise with the
present limited accommodation and beg TO SUD
NIT that a building be erected in the near
future" -. ..
the suggestion No one will give me my prison
on such p tepid appeal: and instead Of what L
ssk / shall obtain the far more desirable oppor-
tunity of asking for it agafn-and again.
m Toward the end Of his labors he keeps mes
ktxenger standing at salute for ten minutes or so
while he finishes paragraph, and puts off the
evil moment Of reading the sheaf Of Geographic
complaints and impossible demands.
One telegram comes from Nawaz Khan sig
mailer OF a camp neighboring that of Mulki Ram,
and is equally f1attering 10 my omnipotence'
even eighty miles distance
Ram Singh escaped with my wife ana prop
erty- Please return property
In the short story of mutiny and the efforts
Of officer TO hold an unguarded post py Dull
tn. suspense and dread of death are impress
sively handled. If the conclusion be conven-
sional Among the other chapters the tale Of
the Thin Man is the best, the Social Problem
who was ircurably III and could not be MADE
way with. who was a manifest fraud and too III
20 be punished. who continually thieVing
and could not be persuaded TO leave the prov
ince Even when he is finally led across the
border and lost TO his bearings one finds 1t hard
10 believe that he did up again within
q month The Great War" is anable satire
on red tape the only part Of this readable book,
the preface assures us which is not founded on
fact
facility in naming all the birds without
gun may become dangerous II the person so en-
doged feels the compulsion toward producing
unsolicited lists Of species BY the same token
many people who enjoy the woods and the fields
cannot do so in silence, and are confronted with