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What passes for history and truth about India in the

United States has-been drolly recounted in the Times by Mr. Edward Thompson, who knows India well besides being a distinguished man of letters here. It is too serious a matter for amusement, and we hope that arrangements have been made by which the gullible folk there may read the articles. We love American idealism and it grieves us to see it distorted into preaching at faults of which we arc nut guilty in spheres which are quite closed to their knowledge. We are not innocent of gullibility here. Other English people have been silly since the Newcomes' guests fawned upon Bum nun Loll. But interested persons have outrageously misled the generous Americans, much of whose press has been full of ridiculous stuff about India.

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