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mind it. The heel of one of his boots is off, and he has become fidgetty.' We all laughed.

In striking contrast with the irritability of the Sanskrit professor was the sweet serenity, the real love of life and the work of life which Professor Henry Morley displayed in all his dealings with us. Life was to him a pleasant sunshine, brightened by the cheeriness of his own home. He was always working and always smiling. In my troubles with the Civil Service Commissioners he gave me all the help that he could, and enlisted the sympathies of Charles Dickens, the great novelist, who wrote a strong article in Good Words, a journal that he edited. From him there was always a cheery look and an encouraging word to hearten me in the hour of my troubles. Once he said to me, 'Banerjea, they will yet raise a statue for you for the fight you are putting up.' An Englishman, no matter what his station or calling may be, has a soft corner in his heart for a good fighter; and this quality does not leave him even when he is abroad, separated from those influences which largely determine his character and conduct.

We have heard complaints in these days about the treatment of Indian students in England and the prejudice that is supposed to exist against them. In our time there was no such feeling and no such complaint. We were welcomed wherever we went, and everywhere there was a disposition to treat us with the kindness due to strangers. We were of course few in number and thrown largely in the company of Englishmen. We thus had an opportunity of studying English life and English institutions at close quarters, to the mutual advantage of both Englishmen and ourselves. For, I fear, ignorance is too often the mother of prejudice, and closer knowledge hardly ever fails to dissipate misunderstanding and establish good relations. An Englishman once publicly declared that I was more English than most Englishmen. I freely confess that I have a genuine admiration for those great institutions which have helped to build up English life and the fabric of British constitutional freedom.