. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . d enough to place in my handsabout forty varieties, for distribution to American friends. My guide-book had told me that the Maharajahs palace wasnot open to the public. But I had long since learned to takenothing for granted in travelling, and I found by experiment .1 1:1 \ INTO VYSORE here that an application for admission was all that was Deededto open the fronl portal ami all tin- balls ha- a leisurely ins]tion. This is a new building, of great dimensions, and of finearchitectural proportions. It would be an ornament anywlin London
. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . d enough to place in my handsabout forty varieties, for distribution to American friends. My guide-book had told me that the Maharajahs palace wasnot open to the public. But I had long since learned to takenothing for granted in travelling, and I found by experiment .1 1:1 \ INTO VYSORE here that an application for admission was all that was Deededto open the fronl portal ami all tin- balls ha- a leisurely ins]tion. This is a new building, of great dimensions, and of finearchitectural proportions. It would be an ornament anywlin London, and would throw Buckingham Palace quite into theshade. There an- but few traces of Indian furnishing,ami iof Indian architect are. The native prinoea are quite in love witheverything English. Nowadays, when they build a palace andfurnish it. they forsake Hindu models. The new Bangalorepalace has carpets from Prance and England, beavy furniturefrom London, decorations by European artists, and the mornamental furniture from Paris. The outlook from th<. I>\\TCIIIN<; TEA CART To THE RAILROAD. central tower is broad and enchantingly beautiful. Kadi of theloftv heights in the far distance has its own Btory of adventureand of final English triumph, while the plains below are full ofthe evidences of those fine agricultural operations which theEnglish are everywhere introducing into India. The Englman in India has solved one problem well -what next to do when he has put his BWOrd into its sheath. He has gone to \\rk to make the people like himself, and their land likeown Bangalore Museum is verv rich in memorials of tin- for mer times in Mysore. Nb attempt 1 n made to make it tell the story of general Indian history. I: .>m 308 INDIRA. ancient palaces, one from Tipus, in particular, with its twelvesuggestive Persian disticbs. Many of these slabs are of greatsize, and their still perfect carvings make them precious remind-ers of times before the Englishma
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