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Rh In the course of this year, appeared his Ahhyanmanjari, Parts II and III. The language of the two books is equally excellent and very well adapted to the purpose intended. Both of them are very nice school books.

Hara Chandra Ghosh, with whose name the reader is already aquainted, was one of the native, judges of the Calcutta Small Cause Court. He died on the 3rd of December, 1869, He too was a staunch supporter of female education. A condolence meeting was held on the 4th January next when a Memorial Committee was formed to perpetuate his memory. Vidyasagar was on this committee.

In 1868, he had to enter into a very disagreeable family dispute. His second brother, Dinabandhu quite unexpectedly laid claim to a share of the Sanskrit Press and the attached Depository. He was so eager about it, as to be ready to bring the matter into Law-Court. When Vidyasagar saw, that his dear brother was zealously intent on going to court, he advised him to have the question settled out of court by arbitration. Dinabandhu assented. Accordingly, the Hon'ble Justice Dwarka Nath Mitter, the second native Judge of the Calcutta High-Court, and Babu Durga Mohan Das, one of the ablest pleaders of the bar of the said court, were chosen by them to be their arbiters. The two brothers then entered into an agreement executed on a one-rupee stamped paper binding themselves