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relief and satisfaction. As to supplies from the 'reporting pencil' of the Vighneswaras unto our Vyasa, for No. XIV of tho contents the obligation is owed to Mr. P. Ramaswami, M. A.; and for Nos. IV, XV–XVIII and XX–XXV to Mr. M. Rammurthi, to whom the old debt immense may only be renewed, as it cannot be repaid, for the unreserved surrender of his whole file of materials. The written articles, Nos. II, VII–XIII and XXVIII–XXX, belong to the period of the conduct of the Brahma Prakasica and the Fellow-Worker of the Southern India Brahma Samaj referred to in the Introduction to Volume I.
The span of full forty years separating the earliest juvenilia of 1882, like 'Prayer and Worship,' from the latest evangel of 1922, 'Sadhana: its Meaning and Method,' will serve fully to explain the inequalities of standard, such as they are. At the same time, it will help clearly to illustrate the underlying unity and continuity of conception as also the growing clarity and intensity of realisation. Well may
