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 Opinion" was in India, Mr. Doke was the guiding hand, and never did a week pass during a period of nearly six months. but Mr. Doke sent his ably written, and well informed leading articles. He guided too, the deliberations of the British Indian Association, jointly with Mr. Kallenbach, at a most critical period of its history. When he went to America in connection with Church, a grateful community held a banquet, in Mr. Doke's honour at which Mr. Hosken presided.

In the banquet Mr. Gandhi in the course of his remarks said that he could not speak of the guest of the evening without feeling of deepest gratitude; nor could he avoid the personal element. When Mr. Doke and he were comparative strangers, he (the speaker) was picked up by Mr. Doke, as he was lying in a precarious condition in an office in Von Brandis street. When Mr. Doke asked him whether he would go to his house, he did not take many seconds before he replied in affirmative. In his house he was treated with every kindness and consideration. Mr. Gandhi's mother was dead, his widowed sister was 4,000 miles away, his wife 400 miles away. But Mrs. Doke was both mother and sister to him. How could he forget the figure (of