Histoire de la langue bengali et literatureA série de conférences données comme lecteur à l'Université de Calcutta . k, en face Cri Ramapurand, a entendu parler un des invités, un général, faisant enquête sur oneof the aides-de-Camp, si le Dr Carey avait noté un cordonnier, sur lequel il a quitté et exclamé, Non monsieur. Seulement un pavé ! • Careypourrait être vu écrit John Clark Marshman•marchant huit ou dix miles à Northampton avec son portefeuille plein de chaussures sur ses épaules et thenrenking maison avec un nouveau approvisionnement en cuir tofullfill son cngagcntMiK avec un tracteur de con rTOvirnment. Cet homme CA

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History of Bengali language and literatureA series of lectures delivered as Reader to the Calcutta University . k, opposite Cri Ramapurand, overheard one ofthe guests, a general officer, making enquiry of oneof the Aides-de-Camp, whether Dr. Carey had notbeen a shoemaker, on which he stepped forwardand exclaimed, No Sir. only a cobbler ! • Careymight be seen writes John Clark Marshman•walking eight or ten miles to Northampton withhis wallet full of shoes upon his shoulders and thenreturning home with a fresh supply of leather tofulfil his cngagcntMiK with a rTOvirnment con-tractor. This man canu, subsequently as a missionaryto Bengal and felt a true Christian love for thepeople around him who appeared to him to besunk in superstition, vice and idolatory. Helearnt Sanskrit, Bengali, Persian and Maharatti, r.ot with a view to know the people or profit bythe wisdom contained in oriental books, but withthe object of bringing a large mass of humanity, whom he sincerely believed to be grovelling indarkness, to light. We may regret that Dr. Careyfailed to observe tin- religious life in Bengal which, . Z/^-. .-./ I VII. ] BENGALI language: & LIlEkAlURE. 85I inspite of superstitions, was permeated with anoble purpose and a spirit of true devotionalfervour. But we can by no means ignore or un-derestimate the great pains and the indefatigableindustry that mark his endeavours to improve thelives of the Bengalis by spreading education andby disseminating the truths of the Gospel amongthem. To him we pre-eminently owe the rapiddevelopment of Bengali prose before Raja RamaMohana Roy took up the work right earnestly. The difficulties in the way of Dr. Carey weremany and great. It was his greatest ambition in lifeto publish a translation of the Gospel in Bengali.When after years of hard and unremitted labour, he had brought the translation of the New Testa-ment almost to completion, he estimated the cost ofprinting at Calcutta of 10, 000 of copies at Rs. 43750.This was quite beyond h

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