the East India United Services Club.'' This was
his first introduction to English social life.
He goes on to say, " When Sir Salar Jung the
Second came to London after Sir Asman Jah's
departure and occupied 19, Rutland Gate, I had
the honour of lunching with him more than once.
Every time I saw him, there was the same
tragic mask on his face. He seemed to have
some great sorrow at his heart. His face was
lifeless and lightless, and his silence was awful
and ominous. He looked like a man who was
slowly and deliberately walking to his death."*
" My first long vacation at Cambridge,"
he says, (July to September, 1887), " was delight-
ful. It was not really mine because I had not
yet joined the University ; but I shared it with
my brother and cousin with whom I was staying
at Trinity Hall. The novelty of the experience
with its half and half character—both Uni-
versity and non-University—gave it a charm.
I was not capped and gowned as yet but began
to feel cap and gown growing upon me. All
this brought new feelings that breathed a new
life into me, and I was happy,"
Mr. Nizamuddin Ahmed had studied up to the
F.A. standard of Indian Universities though he
was only sixteen; but that was sufficient to enable
him to prepare for the Previous Examination of
Cambridge University. He had not done any Latin
*This is a significant glimpse of Salar Jung II who was nearing his
melancholy end.   He died broken-hearted in 1889.