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The Calcutta Review April 1899

1899

Francis of Assisrum one of the most beautiful temples in the East - there the splendid Sc Priinatial hardly surpassed so the good doctor would have us believe by any Church in his own land ; the Cathedral whose bell had so often clanged the death summons to the shuddering wretches in the cells of the Holy Inquisition and warned them that the hour of their auto-dle had come there also the [...] the Bombay and Surat dignitaries and while the energetic Chaplain is explaining by circular and in letters to the " factors" and " writers " of Calicut Anjengo Madras Calcutta and far off China and Gombroon the necessity of contributing to the builing of the Church we may be permitted to glance at the old Bombay that Mr. [...] The morning previous all the inhabitants of English blood had been invited to witness the opening of the Church the largest English temple in the East and after that ceremony to partake of the Governor's bounty at the Castle. [...] Tine the steeple had not risen to its present height and the floor was hardened mud and the windows had but oyster shells to keep out the the rain and to let in the light ; true the lighting was not gas and the punkahs did not swing and the walls were bare of sculptures or memorial brasses. [...] The sermon followed ; after which the Governor the Coucil and the ladies and all the great people came into the vestry where they drank sack to the success of the Church.
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Pages
200
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Art I.—St. Thomas the Cathedral Church of Bombay
199-215 unknown view
Art. II.—The Great Anarchy
216-235 unknown view
Art. III.—Kitty Kirkpatrick
236-248 Julian Cotton view
Art. IV.—Browne’s Religio Medici.(Independent Section.)
249-267 unknown view
Art. V.—Vasco Da Gama’s Voyage.
268-286 unknown view
Art. VI.—Usury
287-315 J.L. Chaudhury view
Art. VII.—Another Chapter in the History of the Conquest of the Panjab
316-337 unknown view
Art VIII.—The Doctrines of Jainism
338-346 unknown view
Art. IX.—The Problem Of Scientific Education in India
347-355 P.C. Ray view
Art. X.—The Religion of Boethius
356-374 unknown view
Art. XI.—Satara
375-379 R.P. Karkaria view
Art. XII.—The Rajasthanik Court and Progress in Kathiawar
380-383 unknown view
The Quarter
384-390 unknown view
Critical Notices
xv-xx unknown view

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