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LATER EUROPEAN WRITERS 267 It is not worth while to linger long over the names of other minor missionary or non-missionary writers who wrote religious tracts and educational Other minor European ees text-books ; for to give an exhaustive account of their names and writings would be to enumerate a Homeric catalogue.t We may, however, mention in passing the names of Herklotts,? Sutherland’ and Sandys* who wrote chiefly on Geo- graphy ; of Kempbell © and Kneane ° whose contributions were mostly historical ; of Mundy,* Rouse,* Hoeberlin ° and Townly'® who were religious controversialists; of গো, হে, রে, লো, এই সকল আক্ষেপোক্তি বর্তমান ব্যক্তির অগ্রে উক্ত হয়। যথ। পিতা গে, হরি ce, yal রে, ছুড়ি লো। (p. 41). It is curions to note such expressions occurring %৪ আমি কর! গিয়াছি (9. 25), আমি কর! গেলাম (1). 62). ‘ The activity of the Caleutta School Book and of School Society as well as the writings of authors like the Rev. K. M. Banerji is not treated here, because, properly speaking, they belong to a subsidiary movement in literature which came into relief a decade later than the movement inaugurated by the missionaries of Srirampur or the Pundits of Fort William College. 2 A Map of the World in Bengali by Rev. Gregory Herklotts of Chinsurah, 1824.

  • Geography of India by J. Sutherland.
  • General Geography in Bengali by Sandys, 1842.
  • Tucker's History of the Jews translated into Bengali, 1843.

pp. 1-257. ° Parasika Itihds. " বাইবেল প্রকাশিত ধশ্মের সহিত হিন্দুলোকেরদের শাস্ত্রোক্ত ধর্মের তুলন! বিষয়ক পুস্তক ০৮ 0715188115 and Hinduism (2 pts. pp, 1-230. Cal. 1828) by George Mundy. G. Mandy was attached to C. M. S. at Chinsurah; latterly a pastor of the Coolie Bazar Chapel. d. 1853. ® Rouse revised the Bengali Bible (1897). He wrote many tracts of which may be mentioned খবী্ীয় শিক্ষাবিষয়ক উপদেশমঞ্ররী ০৮ Plain €ermons on Christian Doctrine, pp. 1-148. 1881. » ধন পুস্তকের বৃত্তান্ত ০৮ 13119 Stories translated from the German of Dr. Christian Gottlieb Barth by Mr. Hoeberlin. With 27 illustrations. pp. 1-252. 1846. 1° See p. 266 footnote.