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throughout the province.

The resolutions to be adopted at the meeting of August were the subject of anxious and prolonged discussion at the various conferences, which were attended by leading mén from East and North Bengal. It was felt that mere public meetings would be of no use. Lord Curzon's Government had shown a systematic dis- regard of public feeling, and had treated public demonstrations with undisguised contempt. Something more was necessary—some- thing that would be a fitting embodiment of the intense feeling that lay behind the whole movement. I remember the various suggestions made at the meetings held almost daily in the rooms of the Indian Association. One of them was that we should resign all our honorary appointments, such as those of Honorary Magistrate, and member- ship of district boards and municipalities. The obvious objection to the resignation of our seats on the local bodies and the Magisterial Bench was that they afforded an opportunity of serving our countrymen, and that they were a source of local influence which would be. useful in the coming struggle. Further, it was doubtful whether the whole country would be with us, in such a view. A partial failure on the threshold of a great controversy would be disastrous, and the idea was therefore abandoned.