250 BENGALI LITERATURE The next name! that we take up is Ward’s but we can dismiss it with a few words, as it is not one of any primary importance to Bengali litera- ture. Ward’s services as a printer to the Srirampur Press cannot indeed William Ward. 1769-1823. be exaggerated but his direct connexion with Bengali literature was of the slightest kind. Possibly he could not even speak Bengali so fluently as his colleagues did? and the only work which he wrote in Bengali—not remarkable either for its form or for its matter—was পীতান্বর সিংহের চরিত্র ০৮ Memoir of Pitamber Sing, a native Christian.*® William Carey’s son, Felix Carey, however, contribut- ed some of the important works to the literature of the period. Felix Carey was born in geet ciel October 22, 1786 and died at Sriram- pur in November 10, 1822. Within this brief space of life, he applied himself successfully to the philanthropic and missionary work with which his father had been identified and collaborated with him in his literary undertakings. He was a medical missionary of great skill, a first-rate printer trained by Ward, and a scholar in Sanserit and Pali, Bengali and Burmese, not unworthy his father. He was not only a coadjutor of Ram-kamal Sen® but himself planned (1818) the scheme® 1 See p. 106 ante. 2 E. Carey, Memoir of Carey, p. 424.
- 4th Ed. Calcutta. 1843.
- For more details about his life and writings, see Marshman, Life
and Times of Carey, etc.; Bengal Obituary, pp. 249-250; Smith, Life of William Carey (many references) ; Dictionary of National Biography. 5 Bengal Obituary, p. 250. ৭ 9০০ [বিদ্যাহারাবলী পাঠকেরদের প্রতি মেং ফিলিকস কেরী সাহেবের পত্র। appended to F. Carey’s বিদযাহারাবলী ততগঞখমগ্রচ্থ বাবচ্ছেদবিদা!।
