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 LATER EUROPEAN WRITERS 269 on zemindary accounts ; of George Galloway! who translated Gladwin’s Pleasant Stories; of Captain Stewart * the founder of the Burdwan Church Mission ; and of Dr. Hans Heinrich Eduard Reoer® who rendered into Bengali some of Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare. - The name of Sir Graves Champney Haughton, the great scholar and orientalist, will detain us for a moment and with this last, though not the least important name, we close our chapter on the European writers in Bengali. Sir Graves Champney Haughton,son of John Haughton, a Dublin physician, was born in 1788. He was educated in England and having obtained a military cadetship on the Bengal Establishment of East India Company, he proceed- ed to India in 1808. In 1812 he joined the Fort William College where he received seven Sir Graves Champ- ney Haughton. (1788- medals, three degrees of honour, and 1849.) = So various pecuniary rewards for his proficieney in Arabic, Persian, Hindusthani, Sanscrit and £ মনোহর ইতিহাসমাল! or Pleasant Stories of Gladwin’s Persian Moonshee translated from the original Persian and English into the Bengalee language. Calcutta, printed by D’Rozario & Co., 1840, or Moral Tales of History with an historical sketch of England and her connexion with India, etc, (containing selections from L. M. Stretch’s Beauties of History), pp. 1-68. Calcutta 1820. Dated wrongly in Biévacog as appearing in 1819 and entitled 4fsztfr AfSta. Dinesh Chandra Sen, History (pp. 869 and 870) enters the book twice as Upa- desha Katha and Moral Tales of History withont identifying them. (b) তিমির নাশক or the Destroyer of Darkness: a Christian Tract, pp. 1-20. Published by the Calentta Christian l'ract and Book Society ; 1835. For Stewart and Weitbrecht, see District Gazetteer, vol. on Burdwan inthe Chap. on Education. Also see Long’s Introduction to Adam's Reports ; Lushington, History, etc., of Religious and Benevolent Institutions in and near Calcutta, pp. 145-155. States or Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare, translated by E. Roer, pp. 1-21. Caleutta. 1853. (Bengal Family Library Series.)
 * (৪) উপদেশ কথ ( ইতিহাসের স্থবচন) পরস্ত ইংলশীয়োপাখ্যানের চুম্বক।
 * মহাকবি সেক্ষপীয়র প্রণীত নাটকের মন্্রানুরূপ লেম্বস্‌ টেলের কতিপয়