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82 in which the statistical method has been applied to the elucidation of the language of the Brahmans and of its history in Professor Whitney's "Sanskrit Grammar" will make his name unforgotten among Sanskritists and linguists. New discoveries of ancient manuscripts or of other materials may cause editions and translations of Sanskrit works to become antiquated, but no grammarian of the future will be able to dispense with the method first applied to Sanskrit by Professor Whitney, and every one of them will be compelled to have recourse to his works in order to learn how to apply it.

Begging you once more to assure our colleagues of my fullest and heartiest sympathy, I remain,

, November 19, 1894.

,—Your letter of the 9th interested me very much indeed, and I shall think often of the meeting of the American Oriental Society on the 27th and 28th of December, and wish that I could be present. I would gladly have sent a letter to express my affectionate reverence for Professor Whitney, and my deep sense of the loss Oriental learning has sustained by his death; but I really have no leisure to give to it. My time is just now fully occupied, as I am busy with my translation of the Harsha Carita and the joint translation of the Pali Jataka, in addition to my usual lectures, so that I dare not undertake anything besides. Professor Whitney's career was one of such brilliant originality in so many different directions that it could not be lightly touched upon. To treat it properly, it must be carefully examined. It would offer so many suggestive topics that I could not bear to handle it