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 LATER EUROPEAN WRITERS 259 William Hopkins Pearce (1794-1840) who came out to India (1817) as an assistant of Ward and subsequently joined the Caleutta Baptist Printing ei H. Pearce. 1794- Establishment, was for several years editor of the Christian Observer and wrote a few school-books ' and Christian tracts. He is chiefly remembered now for his interest in education and his connexion with School Book Society in which he sueceeded Dr. Yates as secretary. But the name of William Yates cannot be passed over so lightly. Dr. Yates, son of a shoe-maker and _ himself a village school-master for some time, 15 দা was born at Loughborough, Dee. 15, 1792. Heentered the Baptist College at Bristol where he studied the Oriental languages and came out to India on April 16, 1815 under the patronage of the Baptist Missionary Society. He joined Carey at Srirampur, studied Sanscrit and Bengali under him and helped him extensively in his literary work. In 1817 he left Carey and joined the Baptist Society at Caleutta, ‘ His works, among other things, are :—(i) ভূগোল বৃত্তান্ত | অর্থাৎ গোলাকার পৃথিবীস্থ দেশবিভাগ ও নদী ও পর্বত ও নগর আর রাজত্ব ও ধর্ম ও মনুষ্য খ্যা ও বাণিজা ও প্রাচীন সত্য ইতিহাস ইত্যাদি বিবরণ or Geography interspersed with information historical and miscellaneous for the use of schools in 6 parts. Calentta. 1818. Ed.in 1822; also 1843. (ii) AB আশ্রয়। দুই পরথকের উভয়ে setttseq or the True Refuge ; a Christian tract. Calcutta ? 1822 ?. W. H. Pearce must not be confounded with G. Pearce who wrote or edited (1) কালক্রমিক ইতিহাস। 1838 (2) ধশ্মপুস্তকের পাঠোপকারক or Companion to the Bible translated by Rim Krsna Kabiraj and revised by G. Pearce. 1846. (9) বৈধশ্ম নিবারক পত্র। or Foolish Galatians or Inconstancy in Faith exposed and Antidote supplied (pp. 1-59), Calcutta 1845 ? For more details about W. H. Pearce’s life and writing see Life of W.H. Pearce by William Yates; Bengal Obituary, pp. 221-222: Missionary Herald, 1828; Carey, Orient. Christ. Biography, vol. iii, pp. 1-14 (a list of his works given at p. 10).