A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF INDIA

They left the country full of hope that they should all be reunited at some future period; but before he had been three years exposed to the climate of India he fell a victim to it. It is somewhat melancholy to find him at the outset rejoicing in the very circumstance which in some measure perhaps occasioned his death. The first destination selected for him was little in accordance with his own taste; and when it subsequently was altered from Assam to Cuttack he expresses himself delighted with the change though the first-named province was much more remarkable for its healthfulness than that to which he at length proceeded.Mr. Acland felt the warmest interest in the education of his children and to improve their minds determined on quitting England to send home from time to time accurate accounts of his progress that they might be made acquainted with all he beheld—the places through which he passed the aspect of the country its climate productions flowers trees shrubs and wild animals. Many an interesting adventure is related in these pages which the author met with in the jungle; the beating of which by the hunting parties who go forth in bands for that purpose is described with an animation calculated to awaken much interest.The letters addressed by Mr. Acland to his children have now been thrown into the form of a Journal as this method was considered best suited to the general reader. The Editor has however been careful to preserve throughout the easy familiar style in which the father first wrote them that to the children of others they may be equally acceptable and useful.