a Companion of the Order of the Star of India.

On the occasion of the visit of the Prince of Wales to Calcutta, he was chosen by his countrymen to act as President of the Committee for the reception of His Royal Highness at the Belgatchia Villa. The excellence of the arrangements amply justified the choice, and Rama Nath received a handsome ring from the Prince as a souvenir of the occasion.

At the durbar held to celebrate the assumption of the Imperial title by Her Majesty the Queen, Lord Lytton conferred on him the title of Maharaja.

Though not so wealthy a man as some of the other leading members of the family, Rama Nath was open-handed in his charities, public and private. There was not a public object,' says the writer quoted, 'which did not receive pecuniary help from him if an appeal was made to him. He was connected with almost all the public societies of Calcutta, literary, scientific, and charitable;

his whole career was a career of public usefulness and benevolence.'

In disposition he was one of the most amiable of men: in his manners, while unassuming, he was frank and affable. He died on June 10, 1877, after a protracted illness.

A few months previously a movement, supported by the Chief Justice and some of the other judges of the High Court, Mr. Schalch, Mr. Bullen Smith, and other leading members of society, had been set on foot for the purpose of voting him a suitable public memorial, but it was abandoned on account of his illness.

His death formed the occasion of the following letter from Lord Lytton to the Honourable Rai Kristo Dass Pal Bahadur :

'MY DEAR SIR,—I am deeply grieved to learn, by your letter to Colonel Burne, the sad news of the death of our friend the Maharaja Rama Nāth Tagore Bahadur. It is not merely a private loss, but I lament with you and the Maharaja's numerous friends, to whom I beg you to express my sincere per

sonal sympathy in their bereavement. By the Maharaja's death both the Government and the whole native community of Bengal have lost a wise, an honest, and a trusted adviser, and by none who knew him is his loss deplored on public grounds more truly than by yours, my dear Sir,

DEVENDRA NATH TAGORE.

Babu Dwarikā Nath Tagore left three sons, Devendra Nath, Girendra Nath, and Nogendro Nath, the eldest of whom, Devendra Nath Tagore, has, by his life of asceticism and devotion to religious meditation, acquired a high reputation for sanctity among the followers of Ram Mohun Roy, and the title of 'The Indian Hermit.'

He was born in 1818, and, after studying first at Ram Mohun Roy's school and subsequently at the Hindoo College, was placed for a time in his father's firm of Carr, Tagore, and Co., in order that he might qualify him

self for commercial pursuits.

Devendra

Nath's thoughts were, however, fixed on spiritual things, and when he was barely of age, he founded a society, called the Tatwa Bodhini Sabha, for the purposes of religious inquiry and discussion; but he afterwards joined the Brahma Samaj, and established a Brahma school in Calcutta. He was one of the original projectors of the Indian Mirror, which was edited in the first instance by Babu Man Mohan Ghose; and, on Babu Keshab Chandra Sen, who had succeeded that gentleman in the editorial chair, separating from the Samaj, he started the National Paper.

He was the first Brahmist to show the courage of his convictions by marrying his daughter according to the Brahmist rites and abandoning the use of the Brahminical thread.

Beyond acting for a time as Honorary Secretary to the British-Indian Association, he has taken little part in secular affairs, and he at one time retired for some years to the Himalayas, for the purpose of religious medi

tation. He is, however, a voluminous writer on religious subjects, and is the author of a large number of treatises and tracts, chiefly dealing with the tenets of Brahmism.

He has five sons, the second of whom is Satyendra Nath Tagore, who was the first native of India to pass the competitive examination for the Indian Civil Service.

Though the career of Babu Dwārikā Nāth Tagore takes precedence of that of his distinguished relative, Prosunna Coomar, in order of time, he was a scion of the younger branch of the family.

DARPA NARAYAN AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

To return to Darpa Narayan, the elder brother of Nilmoni. The wealth which he acquired, partly by commercial transactions and partly by service under the French Government at Chandernagore, enabled him to purchase, at a public sale for arrears of revenue, the immense property of Parganeh Ootter Seroorper. The lands which were included under this designation, and which