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পরিশিষ্ট । \i( that he begged of me in the most delicate terms to get his wife's two best Paris gowns, worth 47o, sold at any price. Mr. Datta was greatly offended with any one who in the course of reading or conversation in English pronounced a Bengali name in the tame native fashion. "It mars the genius of the English language," he would complain, 'you sacrifice the rhythm of it.” Sanskrit he considered a very stiff and unmelodious language. Clf all sciences he was passionately fond of Astronomy (of course popular); and had a deep-seated dislike of Mathematics. For the Germans as a nation of accurate scholars he had great admiration. The French, whom perhaps he loved more than his own nation, he estimated the most refined dilettantes in the world. The English he called boors. Mr. Datta never forgave any Bengali man who did not know his mother-tongue thoroughly well. He was a great smoker, especially of cigarettes. Of the Rev. G. C. Mitra he could not say in adequate terms how he considered him, far and away, the best Greek scholar in linda. His motto in Sanskrit was “শরীরং বা পাতায়েয়ং কাৰ্য্যং বা সাধয়েয়ং।” g-I-88. বাবু কেশবচন্দ্ৰ গঙ্গোপাধ্যায় মহাশয়ের লিখিত । TO BABU JoGINDRA NATH BOSE, B, A. My DEAR JogINDRA BABu, I wish I had the satisfactidin of having contributed my mite of information for the first edition of your Life of Michael Modhu Soodon Dutt, but unfortunately an opportunity for it did not come in my way in time. However, as you now wish to utilise, in the second edition of the life, the correspondence which passed be tween that eminent poet and my humble-self, on the subject of the drama, I have great pleasure in sending you here with, I 5 of Modhu's letters to my address, being his cynly letters with me now, (his other letters having been either destroyed or mislaid), a synopsis of a Drama called “Rizia' which he intended to write, together with a copy of one of my letters to him, which seems to have been accidentally preserved. My other letters to him ought t8 be among his papers, which you have no doubt secured. You ask me also to give you some of my recollections of our friend, the poet. From my close intimacy with him at a time when his genius was in its highest state of development, and hav