Hartshorne.] 1'"^'* [Oct. 11, 



of a larger plan of a History of India, conceived by its 

 author in early life, and abandoned on account of the 

 demands made upon his time by his professional duties. 

 The eleven chapters which were completed make more 

 than a hundred pages of the volume of Memoirs, &c., 

 published by him in 1872. There is added, also, as a 

 supplement, an Address on the British East India Em- 

 pire, which was delivered by Professor Wood before 

 the Athenian Institute of Philadelphia, January 23d, 

 1839. From the latter, we may take, as bearing upon 

 a topic whose interest to the world at large is increas- 

 ing every year, the following concluding reflections : 



"But," it is there written, "the fortunes of India and 

 Great Britain are not to be forever united. The 

 English themselves, even those who have labored most 

 assiduously in the consolidation of the Indian Empire, 

 look forward to an ultimate separation. They look 

 forward to the time, when, through the agency of 

 causes brought to bear upon the people of India by 

 their present political relations, they will have become 

 enlightened, refined, elevated in sentiment and conduct ; 

 when the adoption of a pure religion will have cleansed 

 away the moral foulness which now corrupts every 

 spring of action ; when their long union under one 

 common government will have given them a feeling of 

 political identity, a spirit of nationality and patriotism, 

 which may lead them to desire independence, for which 

 their expanded intelligence and purer morality shall 

 have fitted them. When thus ripe for self-government. 



