The Journal of the National Indian Association in Aid of Social Progress and Female Education in India October 1882

We leave it to the author to describe the tender and simple commemorations which mark the days and years of the peasant's existence the feasts in which rice their staple— almost their only—food plays a great part ; the first cut the Feast of NeW Rice " "A merry day all over Bengal " the Harvest the worship of Shashtra the "protectress of children ""PEASANT LIFE IN BENGAL. [...] The cry of impracticability will probably at once be raised; we hope however to show by a review of the existing Indian medical service that that-service has been a failure mainly because it could not reach the women and that this is pre-eminently a fitting time for the Government to consider the pressing need of the women of India and the means of meeting it in connection with the reforms a [...] The division is a practical and sensible one and would correspond generally speaking to the two classes of medical women growing up in England the holders of a University degree and the licentiates of the Irish College of Physicians the only licensing college which at the present time. [...] It is unquestionable that the European in India in spite of the uncertainty of his tenure long ago began to recognise how much more pleasant to the eye the compound may be made by the well-directed labour of the mali and how beautiful and attractive the entrance portico and the verandah of his house may become when plentifully adorned with those bright-foliaged plants of which the tropics yield [...] Buckland's sketches are occupied mainly with the social life of the ruling class and with the hierarchy " of that class the Viceroy his Council their life and surroundings at Simla and the Lietenant-Governor of Bengal and with the all pervading social influence of the latter the dispensing of his patronage his provincial progresses his semi-public entertainments and the influence of the