officials who stand in most need of protection, for they are most exposed to the danger.  The detailed work of investigation and detection necessarily falls upon them, and they are specially vulnerable through their families.  They have done most admirable work during the troubles of the last few years, and have displayed under most trying conditions courage and loyalty that are beyond all praise.  We are bound in honour to protect them from threats of murder and outrage which sooner or later bring about their own fulfilment.

To my mind, Sir, the worst feature of the present situation is the terrible influence that the Press exercises upon the student class.  I was talking about this about a month ago with a distinguished Indian who is in close touch with schools and colleges in Bengal.  He took a most gloomy view of the present state of things and the prospects of the immediate future.  According to him the younger generation had got entirely out of hand, and many of them had become criminal fanatics uncontrollable by their parents or their masters.

I believe.  Sir, that this Bill will prove to be a wholesome and beneficial measure of national education, that it will in course of time prevent a number of young men from drifting into evil courses and ruining their prospects in life, and that in passing it this Council will earn the lasting gratitude of many thousands of Indian parents.

NOTE 2

THE SUPERIORITY OF HINDU CIVILIZATION.  In an “Open Letter to his Countrymen,” published at the Sri Narayan Press in Calcutta, Mr. Arabindo Ghose has in so many words proclaimed the superiority of Hindu to Western civilization.  “We reject,” he writes, “the claim of aliens to force upon us a civilization inferior to our own or to keep us out of our inheritance on the untenable ground of a superior fitness.”

NOTE 3

SEDITIOUS PLAYS.

One of the most popular of these plays is The Killing of Kichaka (Kichaka-vadd).  The author, Mr. Khadilkar, was assistant editor of the Kesari until Tilak was arrested and convicted in 1908, and he then took over the chief editorship.  The play has been acted all over the Deccan as well as in Bombay City to houses packed with large native audiences.  The following account of it appeared in The Times of January 18 last:  Founded upon the Mahabharata, The Killing of Kichaka seems at first sight a purely classical drama.  It will be remembered by Oriental students that Duryodhan, jealous of his cousin Yudhistira, Emperor of Hastinapura and the eldest of the five Pandava brothers, induced him to play at dice with a Court gambler called Sakuni.  To him the infatuated monarch lost his wealth, his kingdom, his own and his brother’s freedom, and lastly that of Draupadi, the wife of all the brothers.  Eventually, at the intercession of Duryodhan’s