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An excerpt from The Review of Reviews, Volume 36: A. E. W. MASON has gone to India for his theme, and has written an admirable novel on a subject that calls for serious attention. He describes the experiences of a native prince who has become sufficiently Westernized to have ceased to feel the grip of native customs and traditions; but whose life-work is to rule over a people looked down upon and despised by their English overlords. His English training brings him nothing but bitterness and embarrassment, unfitting him for the performance of the duties of his position and turning him into an enemy of those who at home treat him as an equal, and in India look down on him as belonging to an inferior race. It is the tragedy of a man without a country.