ings in life, and enables one to obtain necessaries and luxuries with greater facility. Leaving that view aside, does Mirza Peer Buksch advise his countrymen to lead a savage life because it is more inexpensive?

Talking of the spread of education, he indignantly asserts that the "hyperbole is repulsive because it is unfounded." I have carefully looked through my paper but find no hyperbole. Alluding to some difficulties put in the " way of higher education," which can only exist in his imagination, he presumes that I will retire from the "foreground of battle." I have no wish to withdraw one inch from the position I have taken up. I have based my assertions on facts within my knowledge, or derived from sources on which I can with confidence rely. I have carefully studied the system of higher education in India, and have seen something of it in this country, and I can assert that on the whole higher education is cheaper far in India than in England. I am not, moreover, aware of any obstacles whatever in the way of higher education in India. Furthermore he asserts that education is appreciated by everyone in India. I need waste no words to prove the incorrectness of this assertion. lower classes in India do not appreciate education. The feeling amongst them is much the other way. Amongst the higher classes it is just beginning to be appreciated. I plead for compulsory education because I have always felt that that would accomplish the regeneration of India to a very great extent. I gave no reasons because the need of compulsory education is so apparent that it requires no reasons to recommend it, and I am convinced before long we shall have such a system in India. For the want of female education Mirza Peer Bukesh makes "surrounding circumstances" responsible. I agree with him, and my condemnation is levelled against those very surrounding circumstances which deprive women of the benefit of education. DINSHA D. Davar.

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SANSCRIT ELEGY IN MEMORY OF THE LATE MR. HENRY WOODROW.

Rajah Sourindro Mohun Tagore, Mus. Doc., has composed a Sanscrit Elegy in memory of Henry Woodrow, Esq., M.A., Director of Public Instruction, Bengal, India, (born 1823, died at Darjeeling, 1876), for whom he had a deep respect and warm friendship. In introducing his composition he thus expressed himself:-"The tidings of his death overwhelmed me with grief, and it is some consolation to me to be able to erect his bust* at my residence with mingled feelings of joy and sorrow. Now my only prayer is-Peace be to his soul! As he was greatly instrumental in renovating Hindu Music, which had been faring ill, the Muse of Song, well pleased with him, is chanting with his disconsolate friends to the accompaniment of the Vinά the following pathetic strain in Behág to the memory of the lamented deceased."

The elegy has been translated by a friend of Mrs. Henry Woodrow's, and the introductory lines are composed by the same lady.

INTRODUCTORY LINES.

'Twas autumn in his life, and in the year,
When sheaves were garnered in his native land,
The Lord of Harvest, with unerring hand,
Reaped him from earth. Far-ranging Himalaya
Holds what is mortal of him, fitly shrined
Amid those mighty hills, for he was great,
And stood serene, above all strifes of hate
Or jealousy; love filled his heart, his mind

On others' good was bent, a child of God,

* Dr. Sourindro M. Tagore ordered a bust of Mr. Woodrow for himself, independently of the bust set up in the Senate House at Calcutta.

He loved his Saviour, loving therefore man;
Alike, the Hindu and Mahomedan

Trusted and honoured him, because he trod
Steadfast in equity, nor race, nor creed
Moved him to be unjust in word or deed.

Who knows not, wheu a priceless friend has fled
To other worlds, how tenantless is earth
That holdeth him no more, of what great worth
Is aught that speaks to us of him that's dead?
Then marvel not though one, of Eastern blood
And Hindu faith, thus mourns, with kindred tears,
His English counsellor and friend of years,
In language not unworthy brotherhood.

FRANCES E. NESFIELD.

TRANSLATION OF ELEGY.

"Calm of spirit, high of soul,
Benefactor of Bengal,

Henry Woodrow, called from hence,
Merged into the elements.

Fell the tidings on my brain
With a crushing stroke of pain,

As a thunderbolt were driv'n

Armed with death, from

angry

heav'n.

When of that dear friend bereft,

What in all the world was left?
Life was nothingness to me,
Earth one great vacuity!

Now within my home I set
That which telleth of him yet,
His pale image sculptured fair,
Stands a blest memorial there.

When to Heaven a fervent thought
Flies, with supplication fraught,
"Tis that he may walk on high

With the Gods, eternally.

India's muse of song, once wrecked
In the ocean of neglect,

Rescued by his saving hand,

Lifts her voice throughout our land;

Strikes her lyre's responsive strings,
And a solemn requiem sings,
Sadly chanting the refrain

Called Behag,' pathetic strain !

Thus she tenderly condoles
With the grief of stricken souls,
Torn from him who dwells at rest
In the City of the Blest."

October, 1879.

Translated by F. E. N.

BANGALORE LOCAL COMMITTEE.

A half-yearly meeting of the Committee at Bangalore of the National Indian Association was held on Friday, October 31st, 1879, E. R. Soobraya Iyer, Esq., B.A., B.C.E., in the chair. Among those present were Messrs. B. Narasinga Row, V. Krishnasawmy Moodeliar, A. B. Chukanna Chetty, V. C. Moonesawmy Moodeliar, P. Sungeva Naidoo, P. Ramasawmy Chetty, S. Mullar Ram, B.A., D. Ranga Ram, T. Govindorajoo Moodeliar, B. Southappah, C. Sooba Ram. The report was read by Mr. V. C. Moonesaw my Moodeliar, Hon. Secretary and Treasurer. It was as follows:

"Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I am glad to report that the members and subscribers for the Journal of the National are steadily increasing. A case of children's prizes and some books were received during the half-year from the Hon. Secretary, London. I personally distributed the prizes to the deserving pupils of the Regimental Girls' School and the Hindu Balikapatasalah, and the books were presented to the Bangalore Literary Union. My constant illness prevented my visiting other girls' schools in Bangalore, and otherwise exerting much to promote the circulation of the Journals. I am using my best endeavours to form a Branch Association in Bangalore, and I hope you, gentlemen, and other enlightened members of our community, will help me in establishing it. I have much pleasure in enclosing the financial report of the condition of our Local Committee sent in by Mr. K. P. Pootanna Chetty, auditor. My best thanks are due to him and other members of our Committee

for the valuable help they have rendered to me during the halfyear in promoting the objects of the Association and in conducting the general work of our Committee. In conclusion, I may be permitted to express my heartfelt thanks for the noble and philanthropic endeavours of the National Indian Association in London to promote the social welfare of India, and trust that you will manifest your sympathy with those endeavours in words and in deeds."

The Report of the Auditor, Mr. K. P. Pootanna Chetty, was then read. Rs. 103 had been collected from subscribers and members, and rs. 14 2 6 from the Local Committee for expenses, leaving a small balance in the hands of the Treasurer. The Auditor added,-"Our transactions have been steadily increasing. Omitting His Highness the Maharaja's donation of rs. 200, the disbursements during the past half year amounted to about rs. 70, and this half year we have an increase of rs. 44, I note this as a sign of the present prosperous working of our Committee, and as a forerunner of better financial condition in the future. I am glad to observe that the Secretary kept his accounts neatly and correctly, and he has afforded me every facility in effecting the audit."

The Report was adopted, and Mr. Chukanna Chetty then addressed the meeting. He referred to the origin of the Local Committee, which he stated was due to the exertions of their present Secretary, and he requested the hearty co-operation of the members and other native gentlemen with the effort of the Secretary to establish a Branch of the Association at Bangalore. He also thanked the members of the Parent Association for their kind efforts, and expressed a wish that the thanks might be conveyed to them on behalf of the Bangalore Local Committee.

Mr. B. Narasinga Row said he was much pleased by the Reports read, and suggested asking influential native gentlemen to assist in the proposed establishment of a Branch of the Association

The Chairman then addressed the meeting, congratulating the Local Committee on their increase of subscriptions, and concluding as follows:-" Since the papers connected with the