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 his best novels, Bishabriksha, Krishna-Kanttr Will, Rajani and Chandrasekker appeared in its columns. He gained an immense popularity, even among those educated men who disdained to read Bengali. The Bangadarsart is up to this' day quite unsurpassed as a Bengali magazine and can compete favourably with the best period icals of the West. It is still a storehouse of knowledge, and is vastly resorted to by all students of Bengali. After conducting the paper four years he was compelled to give up the editorship owing to the pressure of official work. But his de- votion to literature continued undiminished. RajashinAa, Devi' chowdhurani, Ananda Math and Si tar am were among his best novels. But religious and philosophical studies were his chief occupation in later years, and the results of the former are embodied in *Dharma- iattwa' and Krishnacharitra. In these he has popularised the philosophic aspect of Hinduism and its bearing on society. He was bringing out a new edition of the Gee (a, with his notes thereon, when the hand of death came upon him. He died on the 8th April, 1894. As harmonising the East and the West, and as combining the best Sanskrit and English culture, both of which he was perfectly conversant with, Bankim occupied a singular position among his countrymen, over whom he had an unrivalled influence. He is truly the maker of the present generation. He was truly an apostle of culture, not like Mathew Arnold, by destructive criticism, but by the creation of beautiful attractive ideals. With unrivalled powers of thinking and exposition, and a perfect mastery of a lucid, graceful and fascinating style, never sinking to vulgarity, but frequently rising to eloquence, he makes his influence • felt by every reader, and inspires him with a love of truth. % Bankim to-day is known all over India as the author of our Na- tional Anthem, Banda Mataram. A true son of India, bis imagination first conceived the idea of an United New India, of what Dr. Rajendra Lall called the coalescence and coming together of the scattered units of the Hindu race, long before our present day politicians dreamed of it