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(222-55 | OS What a vast field does our country now present for literary enterprise ! I wish to God, I had time. Poetry, the Drama, Criticism, Romance--a man would leave a name behind him, "above all Greek, above alાં Roman fame.' I wish you would take up the subject of criticism. Aristotle, Longimus, Quintilian, the Sahitya Darpan, Burke, Kames, Alison, Addison, Dryden and a host of others, mot forgetting old Blair's lectures or the German Schlegel. If you don't read Sanskrit with case, get a Pundit to work under your direction. Where is the fat old Deputy Magistrate of B-now p I have not writen to him for a long time and that is why he is vexed with me. Pray send him my love. That, I hope, will soothe his irritated feelings as a tub is said to do with reference to a whale or Leviathan. When do you mean to come to Calcutta ? By the bye, can you induce the Educational Superintendent of your side of the world to take Tilottama by the hand for the higher claases of your school P With you for 2. teacher, the book is sure to make a tremendous impression. You must know, my good friend, that I am in mourning for a relative of my wife’s-that died in England five months ago. I am sorry I have no news to give you. I lead the life of a recluse, conversing with the mighty dead through the medium of their works and caring as little for the living world as possible. I hate most of the newspapers of the day-Native and English. They do contain such rubbish And now adieu, my dear fellow, Write to me always but don't.