( νi ) Fromገ {h8 singlishman, dated, Friday, Dፀ6ፀmገbፀኮ 16, 1910. By Favour of the God. AN INTERESTING CALCUTTA FAMILY LEGEND. It has sometimes been urged as a kind of grievance, especially by winter visitors to India, that the majority of Anglo-Innians were insufficiently acquainted with the lives and family histories of their Indian fellow citizens. There is a certain degree of truth in this. The thing is, however, a little difficult of accomplishment in most cases. This is owing partly to a disparity of view, things supremely interesting to one section of the community failing to appeal to the other, and partly to the fact that it is not as easy to get at interesting family histories as it is in Europe. Todd's Bajasthan is a classic, but the conditions and time in which he wrote are quite different from those that govern the Anglo-Indians to-day. There are, however, Indian families not a few in Calcutta whose family annals are replete with interest, not alone for members of the Calcutta Historical Society but for all who make a study of men and manners. There are the Mitras of Baghbazar ; The name, “Tiger town,” tells a tale of early unreclaimed Calcutta. A good many people in Calcutta know of Babu Vihari Lai Mitra as one of the wealthiest and most
