\SORO জীবন-চরিত । expect me to keep pace with you. G-has given me up as a hopeless job. Pray, don's follow that fellow's example. With sentiments of the sincerest affection, Ever yours most sincerely MODHJ SUDAN DUTT I5th May, 186o, A.S.-Your good wife, by the bye, is not the first lady-reader of Tilottama. The author's wife claims to have read it before her. M. M. S. D, উনবিংশ পত্ৰ । My DEAR RAJ NARAIN, The Tilottama is out. I have ordered Messrs I. C. Bose & Co., to send up a copy to you. As soon as you get the book, you must sit down and read it through and then tell me what you think of it. I am not a man to be put out by any amount of adverse crticism, especially, when that critism is from an honest friend, who wishes me well. The want of what is called 'human interest' will no doubt strike you at once, but you must remember that it is a story of Gods and Titans, I could not by any means shove in men and women. You want me to explain my system of versification for the conversion of your sceptical friends. I am sure there is very little in the system to explain ; our language, as regards the doctrine of accent and quantity, is an "apostate', that is to say, it cares as much
