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 also is a duty. Who will dare to improve upon what a Hindu Maharaja of high character and standing has to say upon the sacred theme of charity? Not I, but in passing it is difficult not to underline, what he says of the not unheard-of case of the proprietor, who embarrasses his estate in order to give large subscriptions to objects of which Government approves, in the hope of thus deserving some honorary title or distinction.

The Maharaja having devoted a chapter to courage now shows his own, by entering the nursery, wherein he wisely deprecates intellectual forcing, urges that Hindu teachers are best for Hindu girls, and that European tutors for boys, themselves need supervision. The Maharaja is a Hindu of the Hindus, and is no believer in the advantage of educating youths to doubt and despise the system under which they have to live their own Jives, and in which all those