though Hindi, like a modest maid, has with-drawn from the public gaze in towns and cities, yet it has ever been present around our hearths and amid our family circles. Our mothers and sisters, our wives and daughters, exchange ideas only in genuine forms of Hindi Gentlemen in the highest walks of life, while in the public audience, do hold converse in elegant Urdu. But when they are by themselves, with their dependents among their female relations,
the scene is changed Good home-bred expres-
sion of Hindi then almost exclusively escapes their lips or charms their ears. I now ask, why should Hindi spoken at home by the greatest and most learned be described as barbarous? Again, on the ground of utility too, Hindi merits encouragement Beyond the pale of law, Hindi is found more useful than Urdu. In ordinaly life, the former is more serviceable to Hindus than the latter It is needed in the pettiest grocer's shop as well as in the most
respectable firm In the rural districts, its use is more general It does not indeed help us to good situations, but that does not warrant us in desiring its extinction.
There are far higher ends to be served.
