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 suitable appointment. For, the Rs. 2,000 or some such sum are as indispensable for India as the 420 for England. Too much stress cannot be laid, if you want to practise in India on your return, on the importance of studying the Indian Codes in England. These books will be available in your library. Whitley Stoke's Anglo-Indian Codes are very popular with Indian students in England. There are books published for the information and guidance of those wishing to go to England for study. They invariably give much higher estimates than those given here. It will occupy a very large space to answer them here. I can only say that they may be read side by side with this and compared. There is, however, an association doing good work for Indians that deserves notice. It is the national Indian Association. So long as it can count upon the active services of that good and philanthropic lady, Miss E. A. Manning, 35 Bloomfield Road, Maiden Hill, the Association cannot fail to do good. She may, indeed, be consulted by every Indian whom she is always willing to help and give kind advice to. But the information given by the Association is, I am afraid, not trustworthy. The estimates furnished by it are too extravagant. I have talked to some of those who were put under the care of the Association, and they told me that the estimates given were extravagant. They are as follows in the India Magazine and Review, the organ of the Association:

With regard to expenses it is estimated that the amount required will be: For an ordinary school education, from 150 to 200 a year according to the age of the pupil and the standing of the school. For a student at the University 300 a year For an Indian Civil Service student 300 " " For a student of engineering 300 " " For a law student at the Inns of Court 250 " " For a medical student 250 " " For an agricultural student 250 " " These sums include tuition, board and residence, dress, vacation expenses and cost of superintendence. Fees for entrance at one of the Inns of Court amounting to nearly 150 are not included in the above estimate. The sum of 30 is also required to meet the expenses of outfit on arrival.

So, according to the above, the expenses amount to 250 per year, i.e., 750 in three years. Add to that 150 for fees, not included in the above, as also 30 for dress, and I suppose about