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24 to work, contributed largely to his success in his profession. The secret of his success, he himself assures us is, that he never appears in a case without carefully studying all the facts, and that he invariably dissuades his clients from engaging him in cases which he considers to be hopeless. To Mr. Ghose belongs the credit of being the first Native Barrister-at-law who has done yeoman's service to his country by checkmating the devices and vagaries of many Mofusil Police and Magisterial officers. The marvellous tact, the unexampled self-sacrifice, the deep and genuine sympathy he exhibited in rescuing a poor illiterate cultivator of Nuddea named Muluk Chand Chowkedar, from the gallows, whom the late Mr. Dickens, the then Sessions Judge of Nuddea condemned in 1882 to death for murdering his child Nekjan of 9 years of age, have unmistakably shewn of what real stuff he is made, (vide "Romance of Criminal Administration in Bengal." published by Messrs. Thacker, Spink & Co. in 1887.)

The fearless way in which he shewed the weakness of the Magistracy and the Police in the Nuddea Students' case, in the Lokenathpore case, in the Fenuah case, has enhanced his reputation both among his countrymen and right-thinking Englishmen, and made him the idol of the people at large. To such a successful, irreproachable and glorious career our rising generation ought to look up as its model.

The specialty of Mr. Ghose as a barrister, lies in the art of cross examining witnesses. He never loses his temper, and with marvellous tact and thorough knowledge of human character, he quickly discerns wherein lies the weakness of a case. The success of an advocate in cross examination, especially in a criminal case, lies in a thorough and comprehensive grasp of all the facts of a case, just in the same way as a thorough and full diagnosis of the condition of a diseased man, by a doctor, makes him master of his