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 around them live and move and have their being. Upon the marriage question he is content with what Nature prescribes for India, and does not yearn to substitute for it systems Providence provided for wholly different circumstances. He warns young land-owners against litigation, lawyers, and false friends, and against borrowing and lending, and writing of friendship very aptly illustrates his case by introducing the late Maharaja of Vizianagaram, one of the most charming and attractive personalities I ever met, who was friend indeed to every living soul except in some respects to himself. It was natural that with him should end a hereditary feud, which for long divided the Northern Circars into two camps, those of Bobbili and Vizianagaram. Would the Maharaja of the latter had survived to read the appreciation of the leader of the former clan!