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52 LIFE OF MR. WOOMES CHUNDER BONNERJEE. these extraneous help in furtherance of this great National movement, he has always, and we should say very gladly, supplied the "sinews of war" for it. Those who know, under what tremendous difficulties these political and social agitations are carried on in this backward country, cannot but appreciate in their true light, the secret and unostentatious gifts made by men like Mr. Bonnerjee and others, in furtherance of these National movements. HIS FAMILY LIFE Mr. Bonnerjee married the daughter of Babu Nilmony Mutylal of Bow Bazar in 1859, at the early age of 1 5. By this wife he has four sons of whom the eldest Komul Kristo was born on the 5th March, 1870. Mr. Bonnerjee as befits his high position, could have easily trained his son for the Indian Civil Service, but as he is strongly of opinion that none but a man of great intellectual and moral powers should be allowed to enter the Civil Service, he did not like that his son should come out as a Civil Servant with vast irresponsible powers that are pretty pften much misused in this country. Such being his convictions on this point, his eldest son is now being trained up as a Barrister. As regards his second son, he intends to train him up in the medical pro- fession, Mr. Bonnerjee, as we have already said, was married in early youth. He seems to be of opinion, in regard to the question of early marriage, that it is injurious and pernicious to the extreme ; and that the leaders of society and the educated people ought to exert themselves, as they have been doing, to era- dicate the system from our society, He educated his wife immediately after his return from England. Mrs. Bonnerjee is an accomplished lady, possessing all the virtues and good qualities of a Hindoo woman.