15 JUNE 1912, Page 17

"MOTHER! MOTHER!"

[TO TRIT EDITOR OF TRIO "SPECTATOR.")

Stn,—It may interest your correspondent, Mr. A. Smythe Palmer, to know that Bengali Hindus exclaim not only bap re bap, but o sad go! Such cries are natural in a land where the traditional "joint family" of Hindu law provides the strongest of social ties. The tenth chapter of Mrs. Knight's transla- tion of B. C. Chatterjea's novel, " The Poison Tree," shows, delightfully how strong parental love is in India and why a Hindu's regard for his mother rivals a Frenchman's filial