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 ETHICS, AND MORAL TALES. 9 about this time. In 1830 appeared the Kautak Sarbaswa Natak) by a Pandit of Harinabhi, a collection of Sanskrit slokes on various Ethical subjects, with a Bengali trans- lation. In 1833, at the suggestion of Bishop Turner, who wished to see good English ethical works translated into pure Bengali, Rajah Kali Krishna translated JOHNSON'S BASEL AS. In 1838, the Gyaiiaday, edited by Ramchandra Mittra, appeared in numbers, a Miscellany of Anecdotes, Moral and Historical, containing besides subjects of Natural History. In 1834 Nil Ratna Haldar published Dampati Shikha on the duties of husband and wife taken from the Shastras. In 1834 Sharad Bose published Upadesh Katha, or Moral Tales in Romanized Bengali, the story of killing the goose is altered, to meet Hindu prejudices, to stuffing the goose until it burst. JESOFS FABLES were published in 1834, by J. Marshman. In 1836 Raja Kali Krishna published a translation of GAY'S FABLES, which gained ibr him a gold medal from the King of the Netherlands. In 1840 Ram Chandra Vidcabagish published a series of Ethical Discourses called NitiDarshan^ which had been delivered to his pupils of the Hindu College Fatshala then opened, they gave with his own observations, quotations in proof from the Hindu writings — on the need of study, on truth, of falsehood ; necessity of gratitude ; the Bengali language, Hindu literature ; the use of study ; on Ethics ; our duty to our parents — it was designed to continue those lectures in the Vernacular, but as no encouragement was given to Vernacular Education, they dropped through ; they were designed to em- brace such subjects as love of country, the benefits of travel- ling, gambling, the necessity of laws, evils of polygamy : need of gratitude ; mutual duties of parents, and children. The same year was published the Niti Darshak, pp. 22, for the use of the Hindu College Patshala, treating of early rising, cleanliness, behaviour in school, industry, learning, duty to parents, truth, humility. In 1843 W. Morton, one of the ablest Bengali Scholars ever produced in this country, published an elegant translation of SOLOMON'S PRO- VERBS, pp. 76, by its beauty of composition, doing full justice to the ethical wisdom of the royal bard. In 1846 was published the Gyanrikar, pp. 16, k. r. by S Mukeriea, contained various moral fables ; advice on the duties of children to their parents, on avoiding bad company, covetousness. 32. (E. T.) ANECDOTES, MORAL AND RELI- GIOUS, Saddchdr Dipak^y. 48, t. s. i an. lsted. 1836; last 1855. Anecdotes on the lcar of death ; of a boy respecting