dc. rosat. I have your letter. I note what you say about e- Jen. Mr. Polak hae Just returned fran Pretoria, coeedingly well there. I have written to e. Meat about jobs. He hae dana 515 The Cuse doma Forms, as I have said to Mr. Test, are to be sent to the sddress in your possession of brahim Mahomed. He is one of the subscribers. 14.4674. 3 The Phagavad-025 I am certain that it is a short-sighted policy not to print Hindi. Te are really not even using our capital. "Ramayana" is bound to sell, and, in my opinion, it will be a work of very considerable merit, for the simple rasaon that thou aands of people who onnnot possibly study the whole work wi gladly avail themselves of the condensation, If, therefora, & good man is available, you should certainly not hesitate to dar cur the expanse. The resooning which tells you that, accord ing to the expenses here, the book will be daar is railty to a degree. It should be plain to us that, if the expenses are high, the pricas charged are correspondingly high. The Dora "high", tharafors, is merely relative. which we would issue in India for one anna, we charge ons shil- ling for, because the expenses were comparatively high. perfectly certain that, whenever we think of having things done cheaply outside the country of our adoption, we bring in- to play the ordinary wealmass, namely, to drive the hardest bargain possible, and it is for that reason that I have oon- demned in my mind the ides or having the South African book printed in Bombay, and I feel this so keenly, that I have not yet sur onad up sufficiant seal for writing out the book, I would ask you to reason this thing out for yourself. Navar mind whether we employ an extra hand or not and whether we publish the book or not; that is a matter of detail. The first thing is to lay down the principle. If we cannot en- force it, or if we have not sufficient courage to do it, then we genue to worry about it, and caase to think of anlegging the scope of our work. If you need money, please let me know in time. Yours sincerely. छगनलाल गांधीको पत्र (देखिए पृष्ठ ९५-९६ )
