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Rh making one realise that a mother's self-sacrificing love is the same all the world over.

The Kunwar Rani is a remarkably well read woman, and quite as able to hold her own in intellectual society as the majority of English women, while the respect and esteem in which she is held by all who know her, testify to her high moral qualities and her charm of mind and manner. Almost all her relations are Christians, her brother being a missionary of the American Presbyterian Society, and one of her sisters is married to a Bengali missionary, Mr. Chaterji.

In Calcutta there are several native ladies who, having been well educated themselves, are now devoting their time and their abilities to helping their fellow countrywomen.

Mrs. Wheeler is the widow of an English clergyman and the daughter of the Kev. Dr. Bannerji, formerly a well-known and esteemed missionary; she holds an appointment under Government as an Inspectress of girls' schools, and her work as such is very valuable.

Mrs. Chandramukhi Bose, having taken the M.A. degree in 1884 at the Calcutta University, is now the Lady Principal of the Bethune Girls' College, where she herself received her education. This school, founded about forty years ago by Mr. Drinkwater Bethune for the education of high-caste Bengali