( xxix, ); to return to Eis old temple at Vishnupur. Since then Madan Mohan has remained in Calcutta and Baghbazar has become a place of pilgrimage to thousands and lakhs of devout Hindus. All the various religious rites are performed on such a lar ge scale and with such scrupulous care that it is a գuestion with many whether there is any parallel in the whole of Bengal of course so far as private temples go. The “Anna Kote” or the mountain of rice cere - mony is an institution of its kind. Forty to fifty thousands of devotees are fed sumptuously with the "prasad' of the God, and the rice for their consump tion is heaped up in the form of miniature hillocks. The present head of this illustrious and most ancient . of Calcutta aristocratic families is Babu Vihari Lala Mutta, a gentleman whom I can best describe as a Nature's nobleman. Well read scholarly habits, free with his purse in all worthy undertakings, simple and unostentatious in life, devot 3d friend, a loyal citizen, Babu Vihari Lala has all the attributes and eleagents of greatness in him. He has just distinguished himself by off ring a donation of Rs. 75,000 to a very deservini institution-the “Refuge,' of which one third has already been paid, And this is not the first and last of his benefactions. Before this he gave away half-a-lakh to other public institutions such as the Shambhoo Nath Edospital. But even above these I place his translation of that immortal Sanskrit work, the "Jogavashista Rama yana' and his free distribution of the four large
