Page:The Message and Ministrations of Dewan Bahadur R. Venkata Ratnam, volume 3.djvu/21

 with its predecessor of the Jubilee year, may, quite characteristically as ever, make the noble-spirited author (in his own unaffected words) “ tremble — I had said, shudder — when I reflect of what fragile creature such g-enerous things are being said ” and “feel as though ‘ a pious fraud’ is being practised, be it ever so unwittingly. ” Yet> while the extremity of meek modesty only lends added lustre to tlm laurels, they serve, indeed, to prove the brendth and depth of dispassionate recognition- 'Phey help also to point out ‘tho common, lmmistak:^bl(^ ele’T'.onts o^ real worth and worthiness in the magic pen and the wizard tongue, the acute mind and the noble heart, the dcn'out soul and the consecrated life. And here they are set forth at length, even as they go further to obviate, by other and truly eonqx-tent estimates, tlie editorial ^osk of evaluating, while providing, the wares of this siuanieding volume. To this trcasnre-trove also may as well Be appropriated .every particle of the glowing tributes already called forth. The same tact and taste, the same elegance and