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sometimes without reference to the feelings of others. Generous to his friends, he was rigid in exacting what was due to him. I have hardly ever met a man who was so singularly free from the con- ventionalities which mar the happiness of so many of us. He was throughout life the warm friend of all patriotic movements; and his love of his countrymen found its culminating expression in the princely gift which he made, of all that he possessed, for the promotion of scientific education. He took up the case of the Ripon College with all the warmth of his generous nature, and was mainly instrumental in inducing Sir Romesh Chunder Mitter to interest himself in the matter.

Sir Romesh Chunder Mitter's help and co-operation were most valuable. I was then brought into close and intimate touch with him; and the more I saw of him, the greater was my admiration for the man. Strong, honest, with an uncommon fund of that rarest of all commodities, common sense, I always felt that he was one of the finest types of our race. He was not only a great judge, but a great man.

Monomohan Ghose was another friend who helped me on this occasion. Of him also I should like to say a word or two. He did not indeed possess the great gifts of his illustrious brother, Lalmohan Ghose; but the human side was even more largely developed in him. A great lawyer, he was an even greater public man. He was the friend of all who were in need; and many an innocent man owed his life and liberty to his merciful and unpaid advocacy. I heard a story that still lingers in my memory. My friend, who repeated it to me, had gone to see Monomohan Ghose. Monomohan Ghose was not in, but an old man was seated in his office room, with whom my friend fell into conversation. The old man said that he had been charged with murder and that he had been saved from the gallows through the efforts of Monomohan Ghose. He was a poor man who could pay nothing; and nothing was demanded of him. But year after year he visited the great advocate, the benefactor who was to him a second father, and laid at his feet the offering of his heart's gratitude; and, when after his death the visit was repeated, the poor old man sobbed like a child. The news threw him into a paroxysm of grief, and for a few moments he was inconsolable.

Where is the lawyer now who can claim this rich possession over the hearts of clients whom he has served or saved? I remember Monomohan Ghose working in some of these cases without any