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SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS
his translation of this invaluable work, has not
only rendered a great service to Indian literature, but has repaired
a serious injustice to a very remarkable man, who, by the failure of the
authorities to publish his amended MS., was left for many years open
to the undeserved charge of having written with inadequate knowledge
'
Mr. Beauchamp, by
of his subject.'
The Englishman (Calcutta).
It is a grand book, the most real book, perhaps, in which a student
of India can find out what the life of India means. It is a book of long
ago, but it is a book of which every page might have been written
4
yesterday.'
The Madras Times.
—
Every one who wants to know the Hindus as they really are the
merchant, scholar — ought to know herein something
The young
of the people with whom they must come in contact.
civilian ought specially to be made to master the Abbe's book, as it will
help him considerably in his public career. The crowning merit of his
work consists in this, that it is a first handbook written straight out of
The Abbe Dubois
studied the political con-
personal experience.
dition of the country in which he lived, and wrote most wisely about
it. ... If the Abbe°s fifth paragraph had been duly pondered on, it
would have prevented the Mutiny of 1857.' The late Right Hon. M. E.
Grant Duff, in Presidential Address to the Royal Historical Society.
*
civilian, soldier,
.
.
.
—
'A work
— Prof.
for which every Indologist and Ethnologist
M. Winterxitz in Nature.
will
be grateful.'