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 Babu Surendra Nath Banerjee, the great Orator and Political leader of Bengal, writes in the “Bengalee" of the 2nd August, 1906:—

 For some time two little books in Bengalee Sikher Balidan and a Life of Miss. Mary Carpenter by Kumari Kumudini Mitra, B. A, have been lying on our table The authoress is the daughter of Babu Krisna Kumar Mitra, the well-known Editor of the Sanjibani news-paper. We have read the books with pleasure and profit. The style is simple and vigorous, and there is a fascinating air of sincerity which has a charm all its own.

 Sikher Balidan is a book which ought to be in the hands of every school boy. It is a thrilling record of Sikh martyrdom. It tells us in a few well-written biographical sketches the story of the up-building of the Sikh character which made the Sikhs what they were and what we hope they will yet be. In all great movements boys and young men play a prominent part, the divine message first comes to them; and they are persecuted and they suffer for their faith. Suffer the little children to come unto me, are the words of the divinely-inspired founder of Christianity; and the faith that is inseparable from childhood and youth is the faith which has built up great creeds and has diffused them through the world. Our boys and young men have been persecuted for their Swadeshism; and their sufferings have made Swadeshism strong and vigorous. The blood of the martyrs is the cement of the church; and the sturdy