(9) The write, of charming little book of poetical tales is Srimati Swarna Kumari Devi a laughter of our well-known fellow-townsman, the Veneţile Babu Denendra math Tagore. While yet in her teens she commenced four years ags. her literary career with the Dip Nirvan. The works of Jie fair writer like those of the late lamented Miss Toru Dutt, possess, for obvious reasons, a peculiar interest, Miss Toru Dutt finisheed her education in Europe and wrote in foreign languages, while Srimati Svarna Kumari is and has always been in inmate of the zenana, and she writes in her mother-tongue. An educat( d Hindu woman's observations of men and things general, embodied in a chaste and vigorous style can hardly fail to arrest the attention of the siuient of literature and the social philospher. The first production of Srimati Svarna Kumari Devi, Dip Nirvan, an historical romance, made its appearance in 1876; and it is no voteroi:..I. to say that the literary public was surprised with it. As the book, which possessed great morits, did not disclose the name of its writer, speculation was naturally rife as to is authorship. It became known in course of time that the accomplished writer was a young Hindu lady belonging to one of the lighest families in the metropolis. The
