INDIAN ADVENTURE
MAJOR GEORGE BRUCE By J.H.H. Major George Jirnce's novel of India is alive with action and is founded on fact. The hero really lived and actually experienced the various adventures credited to him. What a man! And the end of the story is real for this man, once an avowed enemy of the British Sirkar, ended by sending his son to fight in her battles. But in the meantime we are treated to a new feast of excitement, for Slier Dil has all the ingenuity and love of fighting, as well as the pride in his home and family bred in all the tribes of the North-West Frontier. Burik Sahib sounds like Colonel Luttrel of the Guides, and other characters and incidents are vaguely familiar, The author uses again the old story of what would happen to Bengal if the British left India. A genuine old-time tale of adventure this, and most refreshing after some of the so-called novels one reads nowadays. Kipling and Stevenson would both have loved it. "Red Devil," by Major Bruce. (Angus and Robertson.)
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23839, 14 December 1940, Page 4 (Supplement)
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