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The little book about India is afterwards frequently mentioned in his letters under its proposed title, 'The English in India. It was, I think, to be more or less historical, and to occupy some of the ground covered by Sir Alfred Lyall's 'British Dominion in India. It never took definite shape, but led to the work upon Impey, of which I shall have to speak hereafter.
Lord Dufferin said, with his natural acuteness, "It is interesting, and forcibly written, but one feels he is not a safe guide. As they say of the mansions of Ireland, 'they are always within a hundred yards of the best situation, so one feels that Froude is never quite in the bull's- eye in the view he gives."* * Lyall's Life of Dufferin, vol. ii. p. 244.
The publication of Sir Charles Lyall's "The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man," in 1863, was a shock to all such as clung to the traditional view that these deposits were due to a cosmic deluge, and that man was created 4004 B.C.
I was sitting in the kitchen reading Edna Lyall's 'Donovan. About half-past nine o'clock I distinctly heard Mrs. M. walk up and down the passage which ran from the front door past the open door of the room in which I was sitting. I was not thinking of Mrs. M. and did not at the time realize that she was not in the flat, when suddenly I heard her voice and saw her standing at the open door.
The old Royal Exchange The new Royal Exchange The Exchange Mackenzie Lyall's premises from 1888 to 1918 The Exchange Mackenzie Lyall's old premises in Dalhousie Square The Imperial Museum Municipal Offices, at the present day Prinsep's Ghât from the land side Mullick's Bathing Ghât, Strand Road Currency Office, built on the site of the old Calcutta Auction Company
Sir Alfred Lyall's employment of the term Brahmanism rather than Hinduism, is in keeping with his description of Hinduism, which he defines as the congeries of diverse local beliefs and practices that are held together by the employment of brahmans as priests.
There is no lack of specific evidence as to religious changes, and the adoption of certain Christian ideas. Sir Alfred Lyall's observations let us first of all recall, for he possesses all the experience of an Indian Civil Servant and Governor of a Province the United Provinces. He speaks both for officials and for Europeans conversant with India.
In spite of strictest precautions it invaded Brantwood. On the 18th of January he was remarkably well, as people often are before an illness "fey," as the old Northern folk-lore has it. Towards evening, when Mrs. Severn went to him for the usual reading it was Edna Lyall's "In the Golden Days" his throat was irritable and he "ached all over." They put him to bed and sent for Dr.
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