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500 of Dasi, Pradip, Prabasi, Modern Review and Welfare, but even “tiros in journalism” know that every respectable and responsible journal has a well defined editorial policy, and though fairness demands that views in conflict with that policy should not be shut out, the editorial columns are reserved for the expression of the particular view or views advocated by the journal itself. My article was originally intended for the editorial columns of the Calcutta Review, but as the Board of Editors had no time to examine it, it was published as a contributed article. Lack of time did not permit any change in the heading or language of the article. Babu Ramananda boastfully declares : “As our contributors have not been dragooned into saying exactly what the editor desires there is naturally some diversity in their opinions” and further he pretends to believe that “even those who flatly contradict us may be wholly or at least partly right.” Babu Ramananda seems to have undergone a complete transformation for there was a time when those contradictions to which he had no reply to give were unceremoniously sent back, if legal convenience permitted it. One such contradiction was sent back to Dr. Surendranath Sen through Mr. Charu Bandopadhyaya. A spirited criticism of the Modern Review’s attitude towards the Calcutta University from the pen of such an impartial educationist as Dr. Nareshchandra Sengupta was published after considerable mutilation. But convenience now demands that he should explain away the lack of editorial policy from which the Modern Review suffers.

Babu Ramananda’s contempt for masked men is amusing indeed. He has long enjoyed the company and confidence of Viueve, Inside View, A. B. C., Apollonius Bengalensis and Kalapahar. He has helped these men with their masks and once he forced one upon an unfortunate victim. After a masked man had made an attack on M. K. G. son of J.C.G., the latter sent a signed contradiction for publication in the Modern Review. Mr. J. C. G. says that he gave his full name and address, but the pious and honest Editor of the