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98 lives for the development of their mother language. The combination of Addison and Steel is considered by the English to be the origin of the progress and spread of modern English, and they still congratulate on the happy event. Many educated Bengalees too look upon the day of the union of Addison and Steel as a day of their national festival. But how many Bengalees are there who ever call to mind the fortunate combination of Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar and Askhay Kumar Datta? How ungrateful we are!

For some time, a sub-commitee, styled the "Paper-committee," was formed in connection with the Tattvabodhini Sabha, Ananda Krishna Basu, Raj Narayan Basu, Rajendra Lal Mitra, Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, Radha Ballabh Ray, Syama Charan Mukharji, Prasanna Kumar Sarvvadhikari, and Ananda Chandra Vedantavagis were elected members for this Sub-committee. These members were designated paper-examiners, and Akshay Babu was paper-editor. The Tattvabodhini Sabha was Devendra Nath Babu's beloved object. He had always the association at his heart. If he found anywhere anything new and useful, he tried to bring it in. He had introduced the "paper-committee," in imitation of a committee of the same name in the Asiatic Society. The business of the newly formed committee was to examine and correct all the books and writings intended to be published by the Tattvabodhini Sabha. No such