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Bibliography of Cecil Lowis publications. This list has been divided into two
categories: A. The Novels and B. Ethnographic Studies.
A. The Novels (ordered alphabetically)
- Title: The Ava Mining syndicate:
Published: London : Greening & Co., Ltd., 1908.
Physical Details: [2], vi, 317, [3], 63, [1] p. ; 20 cm.
- Title: The Dripping Tamarinds: T. Werner Laurie: London, 1933. pp.
254.8o
- Title: The district bungalow Published: London : J. Cape, 1927.
Physical Details: 349 p. ; 20 cm.
[Also published in America by Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928. Garden City,
New York]
- Title: Fascination
Published: London ; New York : J. Lane, 1913.
Physical Details: 339 p. ; 20 cm.
- Title: Four blind mice.
Published: London, John Lane; New York, John Lane Company, 1920.
Physical Details: 3 p. l., 9-318 p. 19 cm.
(See review below)
- Title: The grass spinster
Published: London, J. Cape, Ltd. [1925]
Physical Details: 320 p. 20 cm.
- Title: Green sandals
Published: London, J. Cape Ltd [1926] and in New York : George H. Doran, [19--]
Physical Details: 352 p. ; 19 cm.
- Title: The green tunnel
Published: London, L. Dickson & Thompson, Limited [1935]
Physical Details: 2 p. l., 7-315, [1] p. 20 cm.
- Title: In the hag's hands: An affair of the Burmese delta
Published: London : T.W. Laurie, 1931.
Physical Details: 251 p. ; 19 cm.
- Title: The huntress. Published: London : J. Cape, Year: 1929
Physical Details: 285 p.
- Title: The machinations of the Myo-ok.
Published: London : Methuen, 1903.
Physical Details: 320 p. ; 20 cm.
- Title: The penal settlement. Published: London : J. Cape, 1928.
Physical Details: 320 p. ; 20 cm.
- Title: Prodigal's Portion. pp. 312. Lovat Dickson: London, 1936. 8o
- Title: The runagate: London : J. Cape, Year: 1924
Description: 351 p.
- Title: Snags and shallows.
Published: [London] J. Lane, 1922.
Physical Details: 320 p.
- Title: The treasury-officer's wooing. London ; New York : Macmillan, Year: 1899 508 p.
ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES
- Title: The tribes of Burma: Published: Rangoon : Office of the Supt., Govt. Printing, Burma, 1919.
Physical Details: 109 p. : folded col. map. ; 25 cm.
Series: Ethnographical Survey of India: Burma ; no. 4.
- Title: [Imperial gazetteer of India.] Provincial series : Burma / [compiled by C. C. Lowis, with
the assistance of R. Casson and G. E. R. Grant Brown].
Published: Calcutta : Supt. of Govt. Print., 1908.
Physical Details: 2 v. : fold. col. maps. ; 23 cm.
- Title: A note on the Palaungs of Hsipaw and Tawngpeng.
Published: Rangoon, Office of
the Supt., Govt. Print., Burma, 1905.
Physical Details: 43 p. illus., fold. map.
- Title: Burma. Published: Calcutta, Supt. of
Govt. Print., 1908.
Physical Details: 2 v. 2 fold. col. maps. 23 cm.
Series:
Imperial gazetteer of India. Provincial series.Notes:
"The provincial article on Burma was written by Mr. C. C.
Lowis ... with the exception of a few portions treating
technical or scientific subjects ... The remaining
articles, based on materials supplied by deputy-
commissioners, were compiled by Mr. Lowis ...".Contents: v. 1. The
Province; mountains, rivers, tribes, etc.; and the Arakan, Pegu, Irrawaddy, and Tenasserim divisions.--v. 2.
The Minbu, Mandalay, Sagaing, and Meiktila divisions; and
the Native States.
- Title: Burma. Part I, Report / by C.C. Lowis, of the Indian Civil Service, superintendent, census operations. Published: Rangoon : Office of
the Supt. of Govt. Print., Burma, 1902.
Physical Details: iv, 149, lxxxiii, v p., [13] leaves of plates : ill.,
maps ; 34 cm.
Series:
Census of India, 1901 ; v. 12. Other Authors: India. Census Commissioner.
Subjects: Burma--Census,
1901.
Burma. Notes:
Includes index.
REVIEWS:
PUNCH VOL. 159. September 15th, 1920.
I think I should best describe the characteristic quality of Four Blind
Mice as geniality. The scene of it is Burmah--astonishing, when you consider
the host of novels about the rest of India, that so few should employ this
equally picturesque setting--and it is quickly apparent that what Mr. C.C. LOWIS
doesn't know at first hand about Rangoon is not likely to be missed. The tale
itself is a good-humoured little comedy of European and native intrigue, showing
how one section of the populace strove as usual to ease the white man's burden
by flirtation and gossip, and the other to get the best for themselves by
unlimited roguery and chicane. The whole thing culminates in a trial scene which
is at once a delightful entertainment and (I should suppose) a shrewdly observed
study of the course of Anglo-Burmese justice. I think I would have chosen that
Mr.LOWIS should base his fun on something a little less grim than the murder and
mutilation of a European, or at least Eurasian, lady, even though the very
slight part in the action played by Mrs. Rodrigues, when alive, could hardly be
called sympathetic. Still we were all so good-humoured over her taking-off that
for a long time I cherished a rather dream-like faith in her reappearance to
prove that this attitude had been justified. Not that Mr. LOWIS has not every
right to retort that he is writing comedy rather than farce; certainly he has
made his four blind mice to run in highly diverting fashion, very entertaining
to those of us who see how they run; and as they at least save their tails
triumphantly it would perhaps be ungenerous to complain about one that doesn't.