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32 this elementary fact. Those public servants who either took part in the remediary legislation of 1859 or who, previous to that date, in administering the revenue and the land laws of the Lower Provinces, endeavoured to see that the Ryot had fair play, and who insisted on the limited rights of the Zamíndár, may be certain that this latter view found favour with John Herbert Harington, author of the well-known Analysis. His work, published between 1815 and 1821, has long been out of print, and of course many of the Statutes, analysed and explained with wonderful clearness and precision, have been supplanted by later and better laws. But if any student of past times, or civil servant now employed in the Lower Provinces, wishes to understand thoroughly the gradual introduction of our administrative system, the terrible legacies of Muhammadan Viceroys, the difficulties encountered in the collection of the revenue and the establishment of law and order, he will study Harington's Analysis.

That work is for Indian legislation what Coke on Littleton is for English law. Part of Vol. III. which treats of the Land Revenue is enlivened by a controversy with Colonel Wilks who, while writing his Historical Sketches of the South of India, a book of much value, seemed to have completely misunderstood the Zamíndárí tenures of Bengal. What appeared to Colonel Wilks 'an inextricable puzzle,' is simplified and made clear by Harington. He began by quoting