( xi. ) sunshine into the grey of poverty and Vihari Lala Mitra has made the Coronation Day a red-letter event in the lives of the poor of Calcutta. From the Indian Royal Chroniole, September, 1910. In this issue, we have much pleasure in bringing for Ward to public notice a very modest and unassuming man, who has passed his life in quiet, almost amounting to seclusion, and in doing unostentatiously the greatest good to his eountry and his fellow-men. Babu Vihari Lala Mitra, of Baghbazar, is one of the most philanthropic and genuinely patriotic of the wealthier Zemindars of India. He comes of a very old and highly respected Kayastha family, which has been seated in Calcutta for nearly two centuries. . The Mitra family-tree has its roots in Bally, in the district of Hooghly, where the original seed established itself many centuries back, when even limperial Delhi was in its infancy, The founder of the Calcutta branch, a cadet of the house, settled in Calcutta in 1742, when Seeraj-ud-Dowlah had not yet entered upon the crazy course of intrigue and violence that was fated to lead to the horrors of the Black Hole, and to the reprisals that ended in his own ruin and death. 109
