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PRBEAGE, | Upon me has devolved the most responsible task of piloting through the press the first volume of Typical Selec- on from A wee Literate, and of supplying the intro ductory matter relating to the entire compilation. When 'I remember the extreme care and solicitude with which the lamented compiler watched the publication of the previous parts and the laigh ideal of scholarship which ke and the origiriator imposed upon this momentous compilation, I feel my efforts can hardly reach the verge of perfection, Srijut Hemchandra Goswami breathed his last on May 2, 1928, after the second and third volunes were published, and the &rst 150 pages of the first volume were in print. sir Asutosh Mookerjee who originated the scheme of publishing typical selections from the principal literatures of India, and whose interest in the preseat compilation remained unabated till the end, died somewhat unexpectedly at Patna on May 28, 1924. Sriut Bholanath Barua, a premier merchant and business man of Calcutta, who fnanced the publication of the Assamese selections by the University of Calcutta, died on May 30, 1923. It is a lamentable irony of fate that the three person who were so intimately associated with the compilation and publication of the Assamese selections have not lived to see the completion of their labours. The origin of the present compilation was the patriotic zeal of the fate Sir Asutosh Mookerjee to unfold all that is best in Indian culture on the principle “that the most fruitful results in the domain of higher studies would be achieved only by the assimilation of what is best in the West with what is best in the Bast, for the revivification of all that is most vital in bur national ideals." He it was who dise & Autosh Mookerjee onvocation speech of ipas.