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The story of the rise and progress of the British power in India possesses peculiar fascination to all classes of readers. It is a romance sparkling with incidents of the most varied character. Whilst it lays bare the defects in the character of the native races, which made their subjugation possible, it indicates the trusting and faithful nature, the impressionable character, the passionate appreciation of great qualities, which formed alike the strength and weakness of those races,—their strength after they had been conquered, their weakness during the struggle. It was those qualities which set repeatedly whole divisions of the race in opposition to other divisions—the conquered and the willing co-operators to the sections still remaining to be subdued. *** In the com-