xii IN MEMORIAM. 
attracted the notice of scholars to a literature which, being un- 
written, is all the m-re likely to perish. It is noticeable in this 
respect that the fourth tale alluded to by Sir W. Maxwell, but 
never published by him, has been placed on record by Mr. Clif- 
ford, and published by the Society. It is however by his 
‘* Manual” that he is likely to have exercised his widest iufluence, 
in that he introduces every learner of Malay to a scholarly ap- 
preciation of Malay style and language, when all the learner's 
surroundings tend to degrade that ‘language in his eyes, In his 
inaugural address on the foundation of the Straits Asiatic Society, 
the Pres.dent, speaking of Logan’s Journal, remarked that the 
weak point in that brave attempt was that the Hditor was alone 
responsible for the management of his Journal, and that he was 
forced to give up, for want of sufficient co-operation, a work 
which was beyond the power of a single man to sustain. Is this 
to be true of the work of the Straits Asiatic Society? The 
President expressed a hope that the work of a Society might 
possess more permanence than that of an individual. ‘ Indivi- 
duals,” said he, ‘‘ are removed, but others remain.” Nevertheless 
bearing in mind the limited range of interest in the Society’s 
work, and the difficulty of securing contributors, any one who 
has been familiar with the Society’s history from the first must 
feel how much depends on one man, and how much must have 
fallen on Sir William Maxwell in the past. The work done has 
been ina great measure his own work; and although there is 
fortunately no need to anticipate any abandonment of the aims 
which he did so much to forward, 1t is impossible either to mini- 
mize the extent of the Society’s loss, or to believe that without 
increased effort on the part of members it will be possible to 
maintain in future numbers of the Journal the standard which 
the late Sir William Maxwell set. 
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