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588 PURBABANGA GITIKA Bengali rather than Indian, something that fits itself with exquisite aptness to what he knows of the scenery and climate of the Gangetic delta where Mr. Sen was born and where he has spent the whole time of his busy life as a student of his native literature.' From the Revista Trimestrale di studi Filosofici e Religiosi (translated from the original Italian)-" This volume devoted to the popular tales of Bengal also constitutes a contribution of the first rank to such a subject. The tracing of the history of the Bengali Language and Literature in this University is one of the most welldeserved studies of Bengal. To it is due in fact the monumental and now classical History of the Bengali Luanguage and Literature (1912)-in which so far as our studies go we value most the accurate estimate of the influence of Chaitanya on that literature-accompanied by the grand Bengali Anthology. Vanga Sahitya Parichaya, 1914, and then above all the pleasing and erudite researches on Vaishnab literature and the connected religious reform of Chaitanya. A world wholly legendary is depicted with the homely tenderness in the most secluded locality of Bengal and half conceived in the Buddhistic epoch with delicate phantasy and fondness; the world in which Rabindranath Tagore ultimately attained his full growth is revived with every seduction of art in the luminous pages of this beautiful book. The author catne in touch with this in his first days of youth when he was a village teacher in East Bengal and he now wishes to reveal it by gathering together the nost secluded spirit and also the legends collected in four delicious volumes of D. R. Mozumdar yet to be translated.' BENGALI RAMAYANAS-I). ('. SEN From a review by Sir George Grierson in the Journal of Royal Asiatic Society -"This is the most valuable contribution to the literature on the Rama-Saga which has appeared since Professor Jacobi's work on the Rāmāyana was published in 1893. kkiuumumumumumumus CHAITANYA AND HIS AGE.-D. C. SEN. F. W. Thomas (Library, Indian Office, London)-' You have gone on to finer developments and made your prose writing a real art, capable of refletcing not only the general level of thinking, but also the subtleties of the idiosyncracy of particular writers. I have taken note of some eloquent passages in which your personal sentinent is in fact distinctly helpful to the reader by enabling him to realize the matter from the inside. And your book seems to me indispensable both for those who approach Chaitanya from the scholarly side and for those who wish to understand the mind and history of Bengal.' THE EASTERN BENGAL BALLADS-D. C. SEN. From a review in the Times Literary Supplement, 7th August, 1924-- * Probably no scholar alive in India to day has such a record as Dr. Dineshchandra Sen, a record of patient, enthusiastic pioneer research, whose results have been valuable and full of interest. Fifty years ago very little was known even by Bengalis of old Bengali literature, and if such ignorance no longer prevails to-day, it is largely because of one man who, in spite of poverty and obscure beginnings and ill-health, has toiled through many years to bring his own land's history and literature to light. His journeyings should become a legend and the Bengali imagination. centuries hence, should see one figure eternally traversing the Gangetic plain, now beaten upon by the fierce sun as he makes his way across the red deeply fissured fields of Vishnupur, now floating on the rain swept rivers of East Bengal. He has coaxed a cautious peasantr into openin their store of traditions ..... a S 0 0 L L L L L L LL L q S SS SS qSq qq q q q S q p y pening