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পরিশিষ্ট । REMINISCENCES OF MICHAEL M. S. DATTA BY BABU GOUR DAS BYSAC K. MY DEAR JOGINDRA, You have asked me for a few reminiscences of Modhu. I am so full of them that I know not what to say, or where to begin. You are aware that since his death in 1873 it has been my anxious wish to see a Life of Modhu properly written. Your work, which has met with the approving co-operation of my friends Bhoodeb and Rajnarain, and which is written in Bengali, the language in which Modhu wilote and sang-in which his genius is imperishably enshrined-and this not only because his poetry, and blank verse, the first of its kind in the Isengali literature, would not be duly appreciated except by those whose mother tongue it is, but because the life of a poet like Modhu is the common heritage of his nation-not of the English educated community of his countrymen alone, is sule to meet with the cordial acceptance and approbation of the nation and of posterity. You have been prompted by your admiration for Modhu's Muse alone, without any partiality of personal friendship for him, and have volunteered your kind and gratuitous services in this labour of love. We felt a peculiar pleasure, conscious as we were of your learning and ability to deal with the subject, to find our own work done for us by one of a later generation. It is the1efore with sincere delight that I comply with your request in furnishing you with some of my reminiscences of Modhu. My acquaintance wit'e Modhu began in 184o, when we were in the 6th class of the old Hindu College. It soon ripened into warm friendship. After that, we were all along together (with Bhoodeb, Sham and Bancoo S) in every class, in every promo

  • Vide his letter to me page 6o line Io os the Biography. † Ist class, Junior Department.

į Bhoodeb Mukerjee, C. I. E., Sham Churn Law, brother of Maharaja Doorga Churn Law, C. I. E., Buncoo Behary Dutt, Sham's brother-in-law. S Buncoo was no less distinguished in the College for his literary attainments. EIe used to write excellent prose articles in the journals, to match Modhu's poetical pieces. At an examination Buncoo returned the question papers in Mathematics and History blank, without answering 8S