(12) ..picture of the final catastrophe is drawn cannet be sufficiently admired, and reminds us of some of Byron's vigorous touches. . It “is customary to make some relaxation of stfset critical canons in favour of lady writers." But there is no necessity for extending this indul gence of the productions of Srimati ovarna Kumari Devi * * * The works of Srimati Swarna Kumari Ghosal show clearly that she is well read in both English and Sanskrit poetry as well as in European works of imagination; and we perfectly agree with the Calcutta Correspendent of the Hindu of Madras, an extract from whose letter we published in these columns some little while ago, “that never before in Bengal did a lady writer of such real powers and abilties appear, and shed snch almstre on the literature of her country” as the talented arthoress of Dip Nirvan Basanta Utsav, Chinna Mukul, Malati and Gatha. HIND00 PATRIOT. To readers of this Review, the writer of this' work is already favorably known as the authoress of a good Bengali novel, entitled Door”. and of a good Bengali opera entitled Basanto Utsav.
