cue सीदन-bब्रिड । it only wants men of genius to polish it up. Such of us as, owing to early defective education, know little of it and have learnt to despise it, are miserably wrong. It is, or rather, it has the elements of a great language in it. I wish I could devote myself to its cultivation, but, as you know, I have not sufficient means to lead a literary life and do nothing in the shape of real work for a living, I am too poor, perhaps, too proud to be a poor man always. There is no honour to be got in our country without money. If you have money, you are yarity ; if not, nobody cares for you ! We are still a degraded people. Who are the "4valty” among us The nobodies of Chorebagan and Barrabazar ! Make money, my boy, make 'money : If I haven't done something in the literary line, if I do possess talents, I have not the means of cultivating them to their ut most content and our nation must be satisfied with what I have done But let us turn to other subjects; if you are really and seriously bent upon coming to Europe for the Bar, you can manage the whole thing for about 8 to Io thousand rupees. Of course, if you were left to yourself, you could not do it, but I can hope to be of great use to you. When you let me know that you are in real earnest, I shall send you a leng letter, more use. ful than any "guidé' you can think of. You want me to write you by every mail. My good soul, do you know that I should in that case have to write no less than four letters every blessed month. I am not an idle man and besides, what news could I
