Publications in Periodicals. Among the most important of the contributions of Hemchandra to the vernacular periodi- cals mention may be made of the following:
1. Presidential speech delivered at the fourth session of the Assam Literary Conference, published in Chetana, Volume II, No. 5, pp. 231 spp. The author describes the inter-relationship between literature and national advancement, and the wealth and variety of ancient Assamese literature, with suggestions for the recovery and publication of ancient Assamese classics.
2. Presidential speech delivered at the seventh session of the Assam Students' Conference, published in Milan, Volume I, No. 1, pp. 9-27. The address dealt with the educational ideals of the East and the West, and the pursuit of literature by students.
3. Essays on old Assamese manuscripts, published mainly in the first and second volumes of Usha. The books described were,--Santa-akhyan or the story of the saints, by Viswanath, detailing the various sects of Vaisnavism, their founders, and the principal Satras or monasteries representative of the sects; Chaitanya-patal in Assamese prose by Srikrishna Bharati, describing the excellence of Chaitanya's creed, and the reformer's alleged visit to Kamarupa; Govinda-charit by Bhavananda Misra, a metrical biography of Govinda Thakur, a disciple of Madhava Deva, and a propagator of the Vaisnava creed in Darrang; Chandi written by Ruchinath Kandali during the reign of Rudra Singha, A.D. 1696-1714; Sial Gosair Puthi, written by Kaviraj Daibajna during the reign of Madranarayan, Raja of Darrang, describing the life of Dharmadeva whose son was brought up in the den of a jackal in the first year of his infancy. Two more papers were contributed to the third volume of the Usha, one on Kaoya-sastra, an Assamese translation of the Hitopadesa, and the other on Santa-muktavali dealing with the lives of several Vaisnava saints. Mr. Goswami also wrote two more illuminating
