THE London Dietetic Reformer quotes the following graphic sketch drawn by the Baboo Prota Clumder Mozoomdar, of Calcutta, at a meeting at Exeter Hall, London : “I am a Hindoo. I come from the banks of the sacred river Ganges. My forefathers were peaceful and progressive men. When they were hungry, they did not kill the beasts of the wilderness or the fowls of the air, but they satisfied their hunger with herbs and fruits; and when they were thirsty they did not open large casks of brandy, but quenched their thirst from the simple streams of our rivers. But the nations of the West have introduced into our land those two mighty powers of modern civilization—grog and gunpowder. Before the god of gunpowder the physical liberties of my countrymen have made an unconditional surrender; before the terrible god of alcohol, the moral nature of my countrymen is now about to be offered as a sacrifice. For this state of things who is responsible? I am ready to accord to your people credit—great credit—for the noble reforms and the nobler civilization which you have introduced among us, but I am the last man to withhold from you the discredit of the modern and Western evils which you have introduced along with that of civilization.”