INTRODUCTION.

HESE Addresses have been already printed in

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India, and translated into two native languages. They are now reproduced for English readers, for the following reasons. They admirably reflect the mind and character of the writer, a mind and character of singular beauty: his friends could desire for him no more fitting memorial. They illustrate, too, the spirit in which he undertook and carried on for twenty-five years the important and novel work of educating the princes and nobles of Kathiawar. Also, it is believed that their simplicity and seriousness and directness of speech and purpose will make them helpful to others, who may read them for guidance and counsel, as they were to many of those who heard them spoken. This short introduction is written to help the reader to realise why and to whom they were spoken, and what manner of man he was who spoke them.

Chester Macnaghten was born in 1843. His grandfather, Sir Francis Macnaghten, was a Judge at

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