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degree of B.A. He was constantly having letters 

 asking leave to translate one or other of his 

 books into some dialect of India, and in the 

 East generally they were received with a wonder- 

 ful acclaim. The quaint idioms employed by 

 some of those who submit proposals for transla- 

 tion suggest speculation as to the versions that 

 they are likely to produce, and one of the corre- 

 spondents evidently attaches a value to the title 

 of Esquire, which it has rather lost in our own 

 estimation. We may be very sure that Lord 

 Avebury, in his extremely delicate consideration 

 for the feelings of others, was genuinely pained 

 when he read of the trouble which he had caused 

 this sensitive soul. " Formerly," this Oriental 

 scribe writes, " your Lordship used to address 

 ' Mr.' or ' Esquire,' but I don't know why your 

 Lordship have omitted in the last two letters. 

 Although I did not gain or lose anything by it, 

 but still I wonder." 



