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Rh of rare and valuable manuscripts, which would otherwise have never seen the light of day. His careful collection and preservation of the Macenzie Manuscripts which now lie in the Oriental Manuscripts Library. Madras, in immediate and most urgent need of resuscitation, is a heritage handed over by that great soul to the Telugus It would be a calamity for South India and the Telugus in particular, if they are allowed to fall into decay.

In Canarese, Schulze and the great Serampore missionaries were pioneers in the production of many books. In 1822 were published Rev. Reeve's Kannada - English and English Kannada dictionaries in four volumes, and although they are now superseded by the dictionaries of later scholars, they show against what unfavourable odds the early workers had to contend. Says Reeve, "The rareness of ancient manuscripts, the end-