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most interesting in man's busy chase after happiness and wisdom." There is a good deal of truth in the well- known sentiment of Immerman that "morality sticks faster when presented in brief sayings than when presented in long discourses." Men like Solomon, Socrates, Thucydides, Epictetus, Tatitus, Marcus, Aurelius, Dante, Bacon, Goethe and Scho- penhauer have paid their homage to the practical worth of aphorisms by themselves making a great many of them. No less a recent writer than Mr. John More says that they are "The true salt of literature, and that those books are most nourishing which are mostly stored with them." Thus, I venture to firmly believe that these pithy, pregnant Slokams of Mr. Kesava Pillai will be studied and appreciated by every student conver- sant with Malayalam, that they will go to produce a race of honest, patriotic citizens great in faith and strong against the grief of circumstances, whose plain living and high thinking will make themselves felt in the house, in the class room the office and the workshop, and that, "like unseen angles, they will follow them as they fare across this rough, bleak desert of the world, will stay their feet from stumbling, will fill their ears with hopeful music and clothe the sky above them in cheerful sunshine."
West Todtakadt House,$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$
ERNAKULAM,
.29th of May 1900

T. K. KRISHNA MENON.