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 930 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [Chap. that even, at the wrong estimate of the cost of a punch as 5s. whereas it was really a guinea. Considering the enormous expenditure on printing as also the very limited sale of Bengali books, we should not be surprised at the high price set on many of the books of this period; for instance Mitter’s Bengali Dictionary was published in 1801, ’; the price was ‘equal to an 8vo of 50 pages’ Rs. 32. Tara Chand Chakravarty’s Anglo Bengali Dictionary ; pages 25, price Rs. 6. ‘“ The original price of Krisha Chandra Charita by Rajiva Lochana Rs. 5 only for 120 pages. It barely paid its expenses then, so limited was the demand for Ben- gali books.” Journals The energetic devotion displayed in the cause Sey of learning by the students of the Hindu College under the influence of Dr. Richardson and Mr. D’Rozario is evidenced in the list of Bengali news- papers and magazines of this period already given on a foregoing page. Along with a hundred other channels into which that energy flowed for promoting the cause of learning, no less than four journals (Nos. 13, 1g pp. go8-gog and Nos. to and 17 p. gtt,) were edited and conducted by the students of the Hindu College. ৩ It is curious to observe that when the English ue were introducing European educational methods method in into our schools, they were frequently struck with arithmetic. the. excellence of the Hindu method of teaching already current in our Pathagalas, and this they freely admitted. An English writer in the London Asiatic journal, 1817, bestows a high panegyric on the arithmetical rules set to doggerel rhymes by Cubhankara who is said to have been “the Cocker of