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[ '99 ] NAGENDRA NATH GHOSE. Mr, N. N. Ghose (Nagendra Nath Ghose) well known as a scholar, a writer and a publicist, esteemed alike by the best men in European and Indian society, was'born in August 1854 in Bogra, north Bengal, where his father, Babu Bhuggobutty Charn Ghose, afterwards a Vakil of the High Court, had gone as the first Head Master of the Government School then recently established. He passed the Entrance Examination at the age of 15, winning a first-grade scholarship. He passed the First Examination in Arts from the Presidency College and got a first-grade senior scholarship. He read for the B, A., in the same college, but a few months before he was to appear at that examination he left for England. He was entered in University College, London, where he attended lectures on subjeots that he took an interest in, but not with a view to competing for a degree. For a short time he was in Cambridge, where he was entered in Christ's College. Having done his best to receive a liberal and a professional education in the time at his disposal, he was called to the bar in June 1876, and was admitted on the rolls of the High Court in September 1876, Mr. Ghose had a taste and an aptitude for writing, from an early period. After appearing in the F, A. examination, in the winter vacation which followed, he wrote leading articles and editorial para- graphs for a daily paper called the Indian Past. Men who read the paper, European or Indian, could not believe that it was written by a young man of seventeen. After his return from England he made his debut by writing an essay entitled 'Indian Views of England*, which wa» read before two Literary Societies and then published. As soon as Mr. Ghose had oome to be known, calls were made upon his time and energy. He was pressed into the honorary service of many journals, political, literary and legal. In August 1885 he started on his own account the Indian A r aiim which he still continues to write. A paper like the Ufa/ion would do honour to any country in the world. Honesty of purpose and stern in- dependence characterise every line, and the style would be worthy of any high-class London journal. It extorted praise even from Sir