of ours shall be distributed in the native languages throughout Hindustan, in order that the population of that great Empire may know that there is an active and growing party in this island which has neither part nor lot in the outrages and crimes committed by our rulers, and that its members heartily sympathize with the legitimate efforts of Indians of all races, castes, and creeds to emancipate themselves finally from the monstrous domination under which they suffer to-day.”

Many loyal Indians, and indeed the disloyal ones too, may very reasonably ask whether it is right and just to allow language of this kind to be used and circulated with impunity in this country when, if it were used and circulated in India, it would at once give rise to a criminal prosecution.

NOTE 14

INDIAN STUDENTS IN ENGLAND.

An Indian Correspondent of The Times who has made a special study of the condition of his fellow-countrymen studying in England writes that it would be almost impossible for an Englishman who has never been in the East to realize the enormous difference between the life to which the student has been used and the life to which he has come.  In many instances his home is in some far off lonely village.  He may have been to some town to study in a Government or missionary school or college.  But that has not given him an insight into English life.  In the Government institution he sees little of his English teacher or professor outside lessons or lecture hours.  He never has the chance of knowing an English lady.  The student has little time for more than his studies, so numerous are the subjects and the prescribed text-books for Indian examinations.  In the vacations the Professors go to the hills, or sail for England, and the student goes back to his village.  He has acquired little or no knowledge of the English.  He comes to England feeling there is a gulf between the East and the West, save in the case of a missionary interest in his soul.  He is by nature extremely sensitive.  On board ship he and his brother Indians keep together.  The English passengers, fatigued after a period of hard work in a hot climate, have no energy left for the effort of trying to draw out and know this batch of silent Orientals.  So the gulf gapes wide.  If they tarry in Marseilles or Paris there are those who are anxious and ready to widen this gulf between the Indians and English.  Then the student arrives in London, where a man can be more lonely than anywhere in the world.  Here he has to find a dwelling.  The man from a dreamy, lonely, Eastern village, from the land of the sun has to select an abode in London.  Hotels and boarding houses and lodgings there are in abundance; but the hotel or boarding house or lodging suitable to this man’s need—­fitted to introduce him to English life, may exist, but how is he to find it?  He is not only bewildered, he is terribly