Sometimes books like Savarkar's "War of Indian Independence of 1857"-- in its way a very remarkable history of the Mutiny, combining considerable research with the grossest perversions of facts and great literary power with the most savage hatred--were bound in false covers as "Pickwick Papers," or other equally innocuous works.

Other seditious leaflets besides those for the incitement of mutiny in the native army appear to have come from America, whilst newspapers like the _Talvar_ and the _Bande Mataram_, which preach the same gospel of murder as Krishnavarrna's _Indian Sociologist_, are printed on the Continent of Europe.

These papers are either smuggled into India in large parcels or sent through the post in envelopes addressed by name to students in schools and colleges, as well as to schoolmasters, pleaders, Government _employes_--in fact, to all sorts and conditions of people who, for some reason or other, are supposed to be suitable recipients.

They naturally fall sometimes into quite the wrong hands.
The importance which the "extremists" attach to the maintenance of these channels of communication with India appears from the following extract from the March issue of the _Bande Mataram_, which purports to be published in Geneva, and calls itself "a monthly organ of Indian independence":-- We must recognize at present that the importation of revolutionary literature into India is the sheet-anchor of the party.

It keeps up the spirit of all young men, and assures them that the party is living.