(γii) charitable of the commercial Zemindars, an author of some repute, who has written sanely and forcibly on Swadeshi, and learnedly on Vedanta Philosophy. Some of the more studious or curious of Europeans may have read his “Yoga Washista.' There are few, except aunong Indians, who are acquainted with a very interesting legend which attaches to the founding of that old Kayastha family in this city. The Mitras have been established here for about two centuries. In 1742, before Siraj-ud-Dowlah began his short career of blood and infamy, a cadet of the house, Setaram or Uttaram Mitra acquired and cleared land at Baghbazar, then a marshy, tigerhaunted jungle, built a house and opened great trade in salt and piece goods with the East India Conpany's factors. The history of the rise of the house is interestingly told in the “Indian Royal Chronicle,' a paper devoting itself to biographical and historical records of the Indian gentry. There is a curious legend of how fortune came to and remained with the family through the piety of Uttaram's son Gokul Chundra Mitra, known as Sadhu Gokul. He passed for a saint. He was certainly a good business man. He lived in days when the troubled land found peace under the growing shadow of the British and the gold mohur tree flourished. In his hands the family business and Zemindari proposed greatly. The Hindus, however,
