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2nd,—My 11001010010 is, as you are aware, intended cs. pecially for Bengali readers, and therefore my attention is first aud principally directed to the Bengal. How- ever inportant the ohjeet which the Encelish is intended to subscerve maw he, it ts subordinate to the Bengali. The Dichot edition is indeed designed to promote the study of both, Engtish and Bengalii—to accelerate the progress of the Native mind in the to careers (as you called them in vour address to students) now open to Indian scholars in the provines of Bengal. Stil the Bengali is im my work the more important of the two. (a) My effort las been and shall continue to be, to present Nhe history and science of Europe in as attractive and sim- ple a dress as the subjects and the state of the Bengali Janguace willallow, Wath this view it has been my prac- tice to hear portions of my MSS, read hy Pundits and other Vernacular scholars,—to note the passages whicre they mizht happen to stumble in the course of an un-premedi- tated reading,—to introduce improvements where the pas- saves required to be umended,—to ask the opinion of learned scholars where difliculties presented themselves, and in these ways to render the work as clegant and perspicuous as cireutustances would allow, The introductory essay on the study of history, (0) and the History of Rome, in the (7) Pmust here apologize for a few erroneous exoressions m English which crept into the text; and Phave to thank the editor of the Hurkarn for the muastake pointed out, The mistake did not however occur in the Bengals tent. (6) This essay 1] had delivered, before it was printed as a discourse, at a meeting of intelligent and respectable Windu gentlemen. The following speech by the president has been forwarded to me as an authenticated extract (0010 the records of their Society :— * The Reva. K. M. Banerjea read a Bengali Paper on the study of History. *Rabeoo Kissory Chand Mittra then rose ard ssid that be was sure he expressed the sentiments of the whole mecting when he declared that the