these intending teachers, and among the rapidly-growing classes of Baganda who can read and write, shows the immense importance of providing wholesome literature in the Luganda language. Hitherto the Bible has been practically the only book, and we may be deeply thankful that the Word of God has had the first place, and has had time to influence the Baganda so deeply before other books were translated. Now, however, the demand is extending, and must be supplied. The work of the Bible Society will, we hope and expect, not diminish, but go on steadily increasing; but its sister societies, the Religious Tract Society and the S.P.C.K., are needed to supplement its work without delay. The R.T.S. has already made several grants for Uganda, either free or at reduced rates. These have consisted chiefly of English books to help the missionaries in teaching; but now the great need is for vernacular literature, and a vast field
