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This set of 2 books is the memoir of the author who was the editor of various newspapers; the first of which was The Ceylon Herald, in Colombo, Sri Lanka in the 19th century. India and Sri Lanka are well covered in this book, with stories that are at once both entertaining and informative. The book has chapters on the various stories – political, social, and private, that caught his attention, and interest, during his various editorships. Volume 1 has 17 chapters, among which the reader will find descriptions of : the colonial newspaper; jungle accidents; Calcutta and its vehicles; the fashionable church in Calcutta; Anglo-Indian comforts; newspaper editing if the Far-East; steaming up the Ganges; the priests harem in Delhi, etc. Volume 2 has 14 chapters that notice : the Sikhs and their founder; the educated and the uneducated Hindu; the emperor Napoleon and king glass; a ghost story, etc. The book ends with a short survey of the of Sri Lanka. This set is a reprint of the 1855 edition.