Pracharini Sabha of Benares After an abortive attempt to interest the Asiatic Society of Bengal and the Government of India in its scheme of collecting Hindi manuscripts, it met with welldeserved success in its appeal to the Government of the United Provinces of the North-West and Ondh. That Government sanctioned an annual subsidy of Rs. 100 to the Sabha, and also undertook to publish the annual reports of its search This was in 1899, and since then four reports have been published by Mr. Shyam Sundar Das, the able Secretary of the Sabha The choice of this scholar for the direction of the search is a very happy one Mr. Shyam Sundar Das is an excellent Hindi scholar, who has already made himself favourably known by several welcome editions of important Hindi works Among these may be mentioned Lal Kavi's Chhatra Prakash, a Bundelkhand historical poem, dealing with the life of Chhatrasal Bundela. This edition, Mr Shyam Sundar Das has provided with an excellent introduction, in connection with which as well as with the "Hindi Notes" in the reports, the only regret one cannot help feeling is that its author should not have seen his way to discard the artificial Hindı loaded with Sanskrit Tatsamas which is still so dear to the literature of
