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INTRODUCTION. 7 its broken hearths and terraces, its ruined ramparts, its streets frequented by jackals, its bathing places infested by tigers, its homesteads haunted by serpents, its gardens ravaged by wild monkeys, its walls covered with cobwebs-powerfully reminds us of Tennyson's famous picture of desolation in Demeter and Persephone :- “By many a waste forlorn of man, 将 米 并 # 举 林 * The jungle rooted in his shattered hearth The serpent coil'd about his broken shaft, The scorpion crawling over naked skulls :- I saw the tiger in the ruined fane Spring from his fallen God.' Of the dramas of Kalidasa it is needless to say anything here. Sakuntala has hitherto been a favourite with Europeans, and may it long remain so ! Goethe’s appreciative quartrain is already too well known to require a reference. A fuller appreciation of Sakuntala by him appears in a letter which he Wrote towards the end of his life to the French sanskritist Chézy, thanking the latter for his very kind gift of a copy of his edition of Sakuntala. This letter, which ought to be better known, is to be found in Hirzel's introduction to his German translation of Sakuntala.