face. Mr. M. R. Paranjpye, Principal of the Gokuldas Tejpal High School, Bombay, kindly undertook to help me in revising the work. Mr. Annasahib Sapre and Mr. Karmelkar prepared the Press-copy in an in- credibly short time. I must also thank Mr. M. K. David and Mr. Bhausahib Oak for having helped me in a variety of ways. Even then I should hardly have hoped of accomplishing this task but for the spontaneous assistance rendered bv Prof. Haribhau Tulpule, Mr. D. K. Sathe and Mr. Annasahib Chiploonkar, who during the last ten months had placed their services entirely at my disposal.
The credit of having supplied the excellent paper on which this book is published, goes entirely to Mr. M. R. Joshi, Paper-merchant, Poona. Mr. Nanasahib Gondhalekar, the enterprising Proprietor of the Jagaddhitecchu Press, Poona, must both be praised and thank- ed for having printed off this book in five short weeks on his new Monotype machine.
While this Preface was being written, news has arrived that Mr. C. R. Das, President-elect of the forth-coming Congress has been arrested. I must sincerely thank him for having snatched an odd minute to write a
