OPINIONS b” Só ledge, Some results of which are shown in his Vocabulary of Peculiar Wernacular Beng ali Works, published by the Bengal Asiatic Society. The English : ۔۔۔ ر : ۔ ۔ مہ version is int)t a close translation, but a free rendering which gives the matter and spirit of tlhe original. The ballads bclong to the last three or four centuries, The dramatis personae are indu and Mohammedan, chiefly Hindu yet not Hindu of the orthodox type, for the conditions are those of freer country life, and youth and maiden meet in true love episodes. The storics are charming, both happy and tragic, and are told generally in simple language, fresh with country scenes and feelings, and illustrated with fretty sketches by a Bengali artist. The characters are finely and often nobly delineated, and the heroines display the highest ideals of Bengali womanhood. Dr. Sen has discussed each ballad in a preface, and has prefixed to the whole a long introduction investigating their origin, variety, nature, recitation and value, and the political condition of that district, The ballads should stimulate interest among students of Bengali, and the English version will charm all readers. 赣 V Lugac's Oriental List, London, Jan-March, 1926. 'Glimpses of Bengal Life. By Rai Bahadur Dinesh Chandra Sen, B.Y. D. Litt. ( Hon. ), “To many readers the most interesting part of the bookWill be the chapter devoted to humour in Old Bengali literature; and the description of Bharat Chandra's character of the sage Vyasa, which is in the best style of comedy, may be recommended to all who are inclined to disparage Indian humour. The supplement is an excellent specimen of literary controversy, in which, Dr. Sen convincingly champions the authenticity of the Karcha of Govinda Das" rpg arg 1Extracts from a letter addressed by H. E. Lord Lytton, Governor of Bengal to Maharaja Sir Prodyot Kumar Tagore Government House, Calcutta, 25th June, 1924. publications ( Eastren Benaal Ballads) that the “It is clear from these rsued by Dr. Sen is of great interest and line of research now being pu importance. If, as Dr. Sen states, t the 19th century, they must obviously significance. A glance at the poems so far hese poems range in date from the 16th to possess great literary and historical published shows that they throw
