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 62 LIFE OF HUBISH CHUNDEH HUKHERJEE. us that Hurish Chunder read 75 volumes of the old Edinburgh Review, some three or four times over. After the Office hours, he used to go to the Calcutta Public Library, and spend two or three hours a day there in reading Newspapers and other books. That he could read fast will be apparent from the statement of his step-brother Babu Rajkishore Mukherji of Utterpara that he read these volumes of the Edinburgh Review within the short space of 5 months. Possessed of marvellous memory, great energy and patience, he, within a very short time, acquired a thorough knowledge of the English and the Indian history and politics. His knowledge of philosophy was no less sound. His lectures at the Bhowanipur Brahmo Somaj now published by Babu Brojo Lall Chucker- butty bear ample testimony to his profficiency. Such was his inextinguishable hankering after knowledge that he often times walked from Bhowanipur to the Cornwallis Square, a distance of about 4 miles, after his office hours, to hear the lectures of Dr. Duff. Early associated -with Babu Sumbhoo Nath Pundit (afterwards a Judge of the Calcutta High Court) and other pleaders of Bhowanipur, he acquired a knowledge of law which proved useful in his after life. Dr. Sumbhoo Chunder Mukherji, the Editor of the Rets and Rayyet says that when in 1852 he became a member of the British Indian Association, he, learnt all the Regulation Laws in order to be able to carry on discussion with Babu Prasanna Kumar Tagore and Mr. W. Montrio, the Father of the Calcutta Bar. HIS MARRIAGE AND GLIMPSE OF HIS SOCIAL LIFE. Early in life he married Sreemuty Mukhoda Debee the daughter of Gobinda Chundra Chatterji of Utterpara ; and while he was sixteen, a son was