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 the question of admitting the latter to University examinations had not yet been mooted. Mr. Sorabji then sent in an application for his two eldest daughters to be admitted to the matriculation examination at the Bombay University, and it was refused.

This refusal was a great blow both to the father and the daughters, but the effort they had made was not without its effect.

The question had been raised, and though it was some years before the matter was finally settled, the fight between the advocates and the opposers of women's education at last ended in the unconditional admission of women to all the University examinations.

The Sorabji family had now removed to Poona, and Mrs. Sorabji, finding her time less fully occupied as her children grew older, determined to put into execution a plan which she had long been revolving in her mind.

We cannot do better than quote her daughter's words on the subject:—"It seemed to my mother that the great question of how to bring the nations in India together, could best be solved by making them learn together as children. They worked together in offices when grown, but their relations were strained and unhappy, and if early friendships had been there to recall, things might have been different; for the