. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . in anyother part of the Empire. The Bengali is a born writer. Heis probably the youngest politician in the world. While yet aboy he begins to think on political subjects, studies Englishmodels, and very early gets before the world his notions as tohow the government of India should become representative, andhow the natives can best become factors in both legislation andadministration. The languages in which the many works published in 1886are distributed, are as follows : Arabic. German. Kannadu. Arabic-Sindhi. Gujerati. Karen. Assames
. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . in anyother part of the Empire. The Bengali is a born writer. Heis probably the youngest politician in the world. While yet aboy he begins to think on political subjects, studies Englishmodels, and very early gets before the world his notions as tohow the government of India should become representative, andhow the natives can best become factors in both legislation andadministration. The languages in which the many works published in 1886are distributed, are as follows : Arabic. German. Kannadu. Arabic-Sindhi. Gujerati. Karen. Assamese. Hebrew. Krukani. Badugu. Hindi. Kurg. Bengali. Hindu-Sindhi. Lankani. Burmese. Hindustani. Latin. Brfj. Italian. Malayalim. English. Kachin. Marhatti. French. Kanarese. Marvadi. * For minute literary tables, see Appendix No. VIII. Trebes is an excellent,perliaps the best, authority on Indian literature in its several historical his editions of Mann & Zachariae, London, 1878, p. 179 et al. t Lethbridge, History of India, p. 119. 7 — PI. THE CURRENT LITERATI-HE OF INDIA. 615 Nepalese. Prakrit. Telugu. Pali. Sanskrit. lulu. Panjabi. Bantali. Pashto. Sindlii. liia. Persian. Tamil. Zend. The variety of subjects treated in Indian Literature is astound-ing. It reflects not only the polyglt character of the race-stems,but also the mixture of faiths. Among the books issued in L882,in the Panjab, we lind such a heterogeneous compound as thefollowing: The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception ofthe Blessed Virgin ; Praises of Mohammed by his Followers ;•• Attacks on the Prophet by the Christians; Stories of Krish-na, and Talismans from the Qunin. In the same region, theNorthwest Provinces, there is one treatise on astroloerv andanother on electroplating. In Burma the list of books includes avolume of songs in praise of the New Umbrella for the Da?gen P;i-goda. In the Central Provinces a collection of astronomical cal-culations was published, in an edition
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