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romantic figures ever loomed across the horizon of a 

 nation's advancement than did the forbears of the Dumas, 

 pere et Jils. The father of Dumas pere especially, mulatto 

 as he is reported to have been, must have been a man in 

 every sense of the word, and when one remembers that 

 he is supposed to have been the original of the brawny 

 Porthos in the "Three Musketeers," one feels that the 

 brawn as well as the brain of such a man must have been 

 a great asset to France in those days. We are pleased to 

 think that such men are still with us, and are as ready and 

 anxious to help in the economic aggrandizement of the 

 British Empire as the original Porthos was to advance the 

 political aggrandizement of Richelieu. 



CHAPTER XVIIl. 



The Viceroy (Lord Chelmsford) discusses 

 Agriculture and Agricultural Colleges in 

 India and the Tropics. 



Tyopical Life, November, 1916. 



In the course of the carefully worded and very instructive 

 address of welcome that H. E. The Viceroy delivered to 

 those present in the Council Chamber of the Viceregal 

 Lodge at Simla on September 5, on the occasion of the 

 opening meeting of the Imperial Legislative Council, His 

 Excellency (Lord Chelmsford), according to the Madras MrtiV, 

 discussed agricultural education in India as follows: — 



" The recommendations of the Conference on Agri- 

 cultural Education, over which the Hon. Mr. Hill presided 

 last February, have been considered by the Government, 

 and have recently been referred for the opinions of the 

 local Governments. The Conference dealt, among other 

 matters, with the question of reforming the system of 

 education in agricultural colleges. One of the chief needs 

 of these colleges is to attract suitable students. The 

 development of agricultural farms should tend to effect 

 this object, but more farms can only be opened as men 

 become available to manage them. Agricultural education 

 and development are thus inter-dependent. I should like, 



