The storm it raised was intensified shortly afterwards by Lord Curzon's famous Convocation speech, into which the sensitive and emotional Bengalee hastened to read a humiliating indictment of the "nation." Such a storm showed how heavily laden was the atmosphere with dangerous electricity.
For some years past the influence of Tilak and his irreconcilable school had been projected from the Deccan into Bengal, and nowhere did it make itself so rapidly felt as in the Press.

The _Calcutta Review_ has been publishing a very instructive history of the Indian Press by Mr.S.C.
Sanial, a Hindu scholar who has had the advantage of consulting authentic and hitherto unpublished documents.

His erudite work shows how the native Press of India first grew up in Bengal as the direct product of English education, and faithfully reflected all the fluctuations of educated Bengalee opinion, many of the most influential native newspapers continuing to be published in English, side by side with, and often under the same control as, more popular papers published in the vernacular.

Among the "advanced" journalists of Bengal, none had fallen so entirely under the spell of Tilak's magnetic personality as Mr.Bepin Chandra Pal and Mr.Arabindo Ghose, and the former's _New India_ and the latter's _Bande_ also published in English, soon outstripped the aggressiveness of Mr.Surendranath Banerjee's _Bengalee_.

For though not immune from the reaction against Western influences and in favour of Hinduism as a religious and social system, the school represented by Mr.
Banerjee confined itself at first mainly to political agitation and to criticism of British methods of administration.