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pagodas. Brown's English - Telugu and Telugu - English dictionaries and his Telugu grammar are monuments of patience and loving endeavour. He thinks his Telugu grammar the most difficult and intricate of all his works, and certainly it is so, considering that it was the first systematic attempt at formulating the grammatical principles of spoken Telugu. Brown's name ought to be most endearing to the lovers of the Telugu language, for, at a time when, to quote his own words, "Telugu literature was dying out and the flame was just glimmering in the socket, and the Madras College founded in 1813 preserved but a little spark," he whipped up pandits into activity and gave rise to an outburst of native authorship. Around him gathered a large number of native scholars, great alike for their erudition and enthusiasm, and the result was the preparation of good editions of Telugu classics, and the collection