But that purpose will be defeated unless the discussions receive adequate publicity.

They certainly did not do so this winter.

Not only is the art of gallery reporting still in its infancy, but many of the Indian newspapers have still to learn that "it is not cricket" to report only the speeches of their political friends and to omit or compress into a few lines the speeches of their adversaries.

A glaring instance of this shortcoming was afforded by the _Bengalee_.

The Nationalist organ published Mr.Bupendra Nath Bose's speech on the partition of Bengal _in extenso_, as he had intended to deliver it, without taking the slightest notice of the fact that he was repeatedly called to order by the Viceroy and had in consequence to drop out whole passages of his oration, and it published practically nothing else--though perhaps no other indictment of the Government during the whole session was more successfully refuted, both by the official spokesman, Mr.Lyon, and by other Indian members.