@使研可-孤5市 9R9 sermons, for such, I suppose, I must call them. O Rev'd. Sir, I have read several of them and like them very much. Rajendra once told me, you were a good Bengali writer; your book confirms his opinion. The style is free from all those vices that disgrace the Bengali of the present day, and what is more, it shows that very unfashionable thing, mind. If I felt more interest in religious matters than, I am sorry to say, I do, this book would be my constant companion. But you know I am "smit with the love of sacred song'. There never was a fellow more madly after the Muses than your poor friend Night and day I am at them. So you must not lay aside Meghanad. If you do, I shall begin to rave. "The Muses before everything' is my motto It won't cost you more than a couple of nights to get over it. I am anxious that the work should be finished by the end of the year, and I am anxious to know how far I have succeeded in getting into the true heroic style. Besides, my position, as a tremendous literary rebel, demands the consolation and the encouraging sympathy of friendship. I have thrown down the gauntlet, and proudly denounced those, whom our countrymen have worshipped for years, as inpostors, and unworthy of the honours heaped upon them l l ought to rise higher with each poem. If you think the Meghanad destitute of merit, why I shall burn it without a sigh of regret. I am truly rejoiced at the idea of meeting you, and hope nothing will induce you to change your mind, regarding the proposed visit. I do not know your
