Echoes From Old Calcutta: Being Chiefly Reminiscences of the Days of Warren, Hastings, Francis, and Impey

Excerpt from Echoes From Old Calcutta: Being Chiefly Reminiscences of the Days of Warren, Hastings, Francis, and Impey

HE fact of a fourth edition of this book being called for T suggests-that it retains the gratifying opinion formed of it, mainly by readers in India.

To make it more deserving of the favour continued to it, matter has been added to this Edition not appearing in its predecessor, and the book has been generally amplified during revision by new material collected from time to time. It has also been more liberally illustrated, and furnished with an index and chronology. It may be explained, perhaps, though scarcely necessary even for readers out of India, that the first article deals with an historical event long anterior in point of time to the period mainly contemplated in the title page. Still the subject is one which of necessity finds a place in a volume, such as this, purporting to look back on Old Calcutta.