Unlighted Places

INDIA CALLED THEM (418 pp.)—Lord Beveridge—Macmillan ($4.50).

"Now India," said Kipling cynically, "is a place beyond all other where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted. Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much . . . drink . . . Good work does not matter, because a man is judged by his worst output and another man takes all the credit . . ."

But Lord Beveridge's book about his father and mother, who spent most of their working years in India, shows...