4 • delighted. TJbe pky commence .a little before 12 O' clock, and continued the next day, till half past six in the morning. 'Vi^w&e present from the beginning and witnessed aljnosl the whole representation with the exception of the last two scenes. The subject of the performance^was JJidya Sundar. It is tragi-comic, and one of the raster-pieces in*Bengali, by the celebrated Bharat Chandar. I need scarcely explain the details of the play which is cfommonly known by fevery person who can ieacl a little *of Bengali, yet for the sake *of oWf EoglishtreaderS we must observe that«this play is much like that of Borneo and* Juliet in Shakespeare. Ig coifftnefthed with the music of the Orchestra which was very pleasing. The native musical instruments, such as the Sitar^the Saranghi, the Pakhwaj, and others, were played by Hindus almost all Brahmans, and among them the violin was ad- mirably managed by Babu Brojonath«Goshain, who received frequent applauses from the surrounding visitors
but urif&r* tunately he was bub imperfectly heard by the c&semMy. Before the curtain 'was drhwn a prayer was sung to the Almighty, a Hindu custom iu such ceremonies and prologues were chanted likewise previous to the opening of every scene, explaining the subject of the representation. tfhe scenery w#3 generally imperfect, the perspective of the picture*, the clouds, the water, were all failures
they denoted both want raf taste ‘ and sacrifice of judicious ‘principles, and the latter were scarcely distinguished except by the onto being place# above the other. Thtfbgh framed Jby native printers they vgould have been much superior had they been executed by . careful hands. The house of Jlaja Bira Singha and the apartment of his daughter were however Hone, tolerably well. The part of* Sundar, the hyro of the poem, wilt playad by a young* lad, Shamacharan Bannerji of Barranagdre, who inspite 6f ,h*is praise-worthy efforts did riot do entire justice to his
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