The Journal of the National Indian Association in Aid of Social Progress and Education in India July 1884

The Lieutenant-Governor remarks in the resolution that in June 1883 the important question of the admission of females to the classes in the Calcutta Medical College came before him for decision and the principle that all possible facilities should be offered for the training of female medical practitioners was deliberately affirmed from the standpoint of general policy as well as of individu [...] We see allusions to theatricals which seem to have appertained to the style of those of modern Europe rather than to those of Greece or of the monkish mysteries ; and the accounts of the eating and drinking would not disgrace the period in the estimation of either a modern glutton or gourmet. [...] The first part of the book contains a number of stnart"PROFESSOR MONIER 'WILLIAMS ON INDIA 309 sketches of English and native official magnates followed by a series of papers on the people of the Province—the Hindus the Mahomedans the Parsis the Boras and other minor sects which we are bound to say do not tend to exalt our idea of the national character. [...] Cazalet a contributor of £1 100 ; of the successive Viceroys of India and of many Indian princes such as the Maharanee of Vizianagram who sent a donation of £1 000 the Maharajah of Travancore the Nizam of Hyderabad and many others ; while the Rev. [...] (Continued from page 165.) ( All rights in this translation remain with the author of the tale.) [For the assistance of the reader the names of the principal characters in the following chapters are subjoined.] Sasibhusass the elder brother.