remains were cremated at the foot of the Kamakhya Hill, facing the vast expanse of the Brahmaputra river.
The death of Hemchandra Goswami has created a void which it is very difficult to fill. His earnestness and infinite capacity for work are best revealed in the books or articles he edited or compiled. The keynote of his life was his intense patriotism which manifested itself in an indomitable desire to dig up the past glories of Assam and place them before his countrymen as a stimulus and inspiration, His Gauhati house was the rendezvous of scholars who happened to visit Assam. We had seen there Sir Prafullachandra Roy, Mr. Kasinath Dikshit, Dr. D, R, Bhandarkar, Prof. G. Tucci and Sir Devaprasad Sarvadhikary, all listening rapturously to the antiquities and civilisation of ancient Kamarupa from the lips of the Assamese savant. The gorgeously illustrated manuscript of Hasti-vidyanarva was shown by Mr. Goswami to Dr. Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi. Lord Reading, to whom this manuscript was shown by Mr Barnes, expressed great delight on seeing this marvellous specimen of Assamese painting and scholarship. Mr. Goswami object in exhibiting these rare tokens of Assamese civilisation to distinguished visitors to Assam was to raise their estimation of his much abused and misrepresented countrymen.
Literary works.
The literary career of Hemchandra Goswami spread over a period of forty-five years commencing from his school days at Nowgong under the irresistible association of Rai Bahadur Gunabhiram Barua, Mr. Goswami's literary perform ance is in the main critical and editorial, though in his earlier years he wrote verses with considerable ease and spontaneity. He was chiefly engaged in supplying the aw materials with the help of which constructive and scientific
