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Jain Gazette.
(11) carriage and four he majestically drives. This is all, to the wondering gaze of the onlooker, an untasted cup of nectarlooking juice: to such as however have tasted it, nothing could be more incliriating than this The satisfaction of desire is the surest dissatisfaction of human soul. The moment that one appears to catch hold of the long-sought object, is also the beginning of an unquenchable, ever inflaming thirst for new object. An headlong pursuit of it, is the ruin of all mankind. Taking the most charitable view of Shet Premchand's metoric career, we may without detriment to his great reputation say that he failed to grasp the real situation in this juncture and became a bankrupt.
HIS BENEFACTIONS.
Yet he retrieved his fortune calmly and courageously. He had a most remarkable capacity for continous labour; a strong memory was his forte; commercial sagacity was almost his birthright. But all this has not made him so celebrated. His philan. thropy was the greatest of his merits and whether nature smiled or frowned at hin, he was all the same, the liberal, princely patron of all th good movements that he came across. His charity knew no bounds. Even a brief enumeration of his donatious would swell the amount to tens of lacs of rupees. The Rajabai Tower and Library of the Uuiversity of Rombay which cost him six and a half lacs of rupees embody his devotion to the memory of his mother and his in. terests of higheer education in Bomday. The Premchand Roychand Scholaships of the Calcutta University are maintained from the interest of three lacs of rupees handed over by him to that institution. The Training College at Ahemadabad owes him eighty thousand rupees. A brief resume of his long and crowded career is not the place for a list exhaustive of all his gifts. The two or three that we have noted here sufficiently show how catholic and broad his interests were. He rose above the petty sense of Caste-feeling. Not that he ignored the claims of his faith which he so devoutly professed.
