TILE "INDIAN SPECTATOR."
Its ens Emma or ens ..Srscraron."] Sin,—To the list of Spectators on p. 66 of your last issue permit me to add the late Bebramji Malabari's Indian Spectator, which• after a useful and honourable career of twenty-two years, issued its final number on December 27th last, having survived its founder by some eighteen months. Mullis ills bonis ylebitis occidit. "Its characteristic qualities," says Mr. Malabari's son and successor, "have been those of personality, and personality is incommunicable." The personality of the little Parsi philanthropist was very lovable, and won him many friends in the East and West alike. A loyal yet patriotic Indian, he was a keen, kindly, and amused critic of life in India and in Europe. He bad little belief in political nostrums, and pinned his faith on cautious social progress, the inevitable and whole- some outcome of modern contact with the outer world. Himself a Zoroastrian by birth and profession, he understood and liked Hindus and Christians, and was in a very real sense a citizen of the world. His journal reflected his kindly humour, his genial impartiality, his wide knowledge of men and things. Deprived of his guidance, it was perhaps bound to undergo changes of which he would not have approved, and his son has doubtless obeyed a wise filial instinct in ending its publication. But its place will not be easily filled, and it will be missed by men of many races and
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