জীবন-চরিত । sagar, has taken me by the hand; if you ask him he will tell you how shabbily l have been treated. The subject is an important one, and I don't like to enter into it. I have been for months like a ship becamed in France, though, thank God, I have had strength of mind and resolution to make the very best use of my misfortune in learning the three great continental languages, utia, Italian, German, and French languages,-which are well worth knowing for their literary wealth. You know, my Gour, that the knowledge of a great European language is like the acquisition of a vast and well-cultivated state-intellectual of course. Should I live to return, I hope to familiarize my educated friends with these languages through the medium of our own. After all, there is nothing like cultivating and enriching our own tongue. Do you think England, or France, or Germany or Italy wants Poets and Essayists P I pray God, that the noble ambition of Milton to do something for his mother-tongue and his native land may animate all men of talent among us. If there be any one among us anxious to leave a name behind him, and not pass away into oblivion like a brute, let him devote himself to his mother tongue. That is his legitimate sphere-his proper element. European scholarship is good, in as much as it renders us masters of the intellectual resources of the most civilized quarters of the globe; but when we speak to the world, let us speak in our own language. Let those, who feel that they have springs of fresh thought in them, fly to their mother-tongue. Here is
