PAGE Gothic Bible of Ulfilas Colored Plate Frontispiece Georg Ebers (Portrait) 5091 "Babylonian Marriage Market" (Photogravure) 5098 Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing (Outline Fac-Simile) 5226 "The Sphynx" (Photogravure) 5260 "Egyptian Funeral Feast" (Photogravure) 5290 "Uncial Greek Writing" (Fac-Simile) 5338 George Eliot (Portrait) 5359 Ralph Waldo Emerson (Portrait) 5421 "Concord Battle Monument" (Photogravure) 5466 VIGNETTE PORTRAITS John S. Dwight Jonathan Edwards Maria Edgeworth Edward Eggleston TORU DUTT (1856-1877) In 1874 there appeared in the Bengal Magazine an essay upon Leconte de Lisle, which showed not only an unusual knowledge of French literature, but also decided literary qualities. The essayist was Toru Dutt, a Hindu girl of eighteen, daughter of Govin Chunder Dutt, for many years a justice of the peace at Calcutta. The family belonged to the high-caste cultivated Hindus, and Toru's education was conducted on broad lines. Her work frequently discloses charming pictures of the home life that filled the old garden house at Calcutta. Here it is easy to see the studious child poring over French, German, and English lexicons, reading every book she could lay hold of, hearing from her mother's lips those old legends of her race which had been woven into the poetry of native bards long before the civilization of modern Europe existed. In her thirteenth year Toru and her younger sister were sent to study for a few months in France, and thence to attend lectures at Cambridge and to travel in England. A memory of this visit appears in Toru's little poem, 'Near Hastings,' which shows the impressionable nature of the Indian girl, so sensitive to the romance of an alien race, and so appreciative of her friendly welcome to English soil.