cases differs so materially from that which has hitherto been in vogue, that it is not easy to identify the places or persons. I have adhered to the old form of orthography, as the student may have occasion to refer to the records and despatches of Government, to Parliamentary papers, to previous histories, and to current English journals, in which it has been, and continues to be, used. There are some cases in which names have been variously spelled by different writers, but the diversities are neither important nor embarrassing. On the principle of preferring general usage to philological nicety, I have in every such instance collated diverse authors, and, to the best of my ability, made choice of that mode which appeared to have the preponderance. For the convenience of the native student, the two forms of spelling are placed in juxtaposition in the following table.

LONDON: October, 1873.

JOHN CLARK MARSHMAN.

NOTE TO THE PRESENT EDITION.

MR MARSHMAN did not long survive the publication of this Abridgment of his ' History of India.' He died in London, July 1877, and India lost in him a zealous worker, and a conscientious and faithful historian. During a long life his efforts were unceasingly directed to promote her interests, and the welfare of her people; and he held it his proudest title to be called "the Friend of India." In the present edition the summary of important events, from the death of Lord Mayo in 1872 to the close of the year 1891, has been briefly chronicled by a member of the author's family.

LONDON, April 1893.