question prominently before the mind by his attempt at grouping the symbols of the two countries in one pictorial setting.

SARAT CHANDRA GUPTA.

APPENDIX B.

ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION OF

INDIANS.

(Vide Editor's Foreword).

Extracts from the Report of the Association, 1906.

An evening party was given at the Town Hall of Calcutta on the 5th of March, 1906, to bid farewell to the 44 Indian students, proceeding to foreign countries for industrial education.

The proceedings commenced with a Bengalee song.

Mr. S. K. Ratcliffe* said that they had met there to give a cordial and most enthusiastic send-off to the students that were going to the Far East and West for technical education. For the last two years that Association had been engaged in the useful and most excellent work of sending students for technical and industrial education. So far as the working of the Association was concerned, it had done admirably. A large number of students had been sent to Japan, America and Europe. That day they were sending 44

*Late Editor of the Statesman, one of the English daily papers of Calcutta.

new students to the East and West. He was, however, not going to make any speeches. He only wanted to say that they had in their midst a very distinguished statesman from America, Mr. William Jennings Bryan, the great representative of the Democratic Party. Mr. Bryan had been travelling through the Far East. He had also spent some time in the Philippines. He had just come out from the Philippines and was visiting India for the purpose of gathering impressions, ideas and informations which he would turn to the best advantage when he would go back to his own country. The speaker then welcomed him and called upon him to deliver an address. Mr. William Jennings Bryan then addressed the meeting.

He said that he was travelling as a student and not as an instructor-he was travelling to learn and not to express his opinion. He took pleasure in testifying to his deep appreciation of the broad and generous spirit that lay at the back of the Association. It gratified him much to know that there were forty-four young men, who were willing to leave home in order that they might learn what the world had to teach them. The speaker was sure that these young men would act as bee and would bring home honey. He wished that no one would be ashamed to go abroad in search of truth. He believed that each nation had something that it could teach. In his opinion there ought to be exchange of views between nations and individuals. A man could learn much by retiring in solitude; but

he could learn more by going to foreign countries. When he was at Japan a teacher told him that he (the teacher) hoped that the speaker should find some worse thing among them and that he might tell the people so that the people of Japan might improve. In reply, the speaker said that he was not travelling so much to find fault, and that he was anxious to go back to his country with everything that was good. He was glad that some of the students were going to the United States. He wanted them to go to the United States to study the institutions and to study the people and all that they could find good. The speaker asked them not to be ashamed to borrow; there was no disgrace in borrowing. He hoped that those students would make a full return of all that they would borrow. They should remember that truth was priceless wherever they could be found. Those students were going abroad to have their visions enlarged and their capacity increased. With the increased capacity comes in responsibility. He hoped that those students would prove themselves worthy by their conduct remembering the generosity of those who had sent them.

APPENDIX C.

INDIA THROUGH AMERICAN EYES.

(Vide pages 1-4)

The readers of America through Hindu Eyes would perhaps enjoy a bird's eye view of India through American eyes. The picture of India drawn by Mark Twain in his Following the Equator is, therefore, given below:

"There is only one India! It is the only country that has a monopoly of grand and imposing specialties. When another country has a remarkable thing, it cannot have it all to itself—some other country has a duplicate. But India-that is different. Its marvels are its own; the patents cannot be infringed; imitations are not possible. And think of the size of them, the majesty of them, the weird and outlandish character of the most of them!

"There is the plague, the Black Death. India invented it; India is the cradle of that mighty birth. "The Car of Juggernaut was India's invention. "So was the Suttee; and within the time of men still living, eight hundred widows willingly, and, in fact, rejoicingly, burned themselves to death on the