OPINIONS HISTORY OF THE BEN G A TI LANGUAGE AN}) JITERATURE (IN ENGLISH) Y IDR. DIN FS HU HANDRA SEN, D. LITT., RAI BAHA I :: 31, SII) BY THE CALCUTTA NIVERSITY Demy 8vo, pp. 1,067 with iliustrations. P'Ice Rs. 16. Extract from a long review in the Times Literary Supplement, London, | une 10, 1912-" In his narration as becomes one who is the soul of silolarly candour, be tells those, who can read hunt with sympathy and imagination more about the Hindu mind and its attitude towards life than we can gather from 30 volumes of impressions of travel by Europeans. Loti's picturesque account of the rites practised in the Travancore temples and even M. Chevrillon 's synt esis of nucli browsing in Hindu Scriptures seem faint records by the side of this unassuri; ng tale of Hindu Literature-Mr. Sen may well be proud of the lasting Inonunent he has erected to the literature of the native Bengal.' le Athenaeum, March 16, 1922-‘‘ Mr. Sen 'nay justly fact that in the Iniddle age he has done Liore for the than any other writer of his own or indeed From a long review in t congratulate himself on the history of bis national language any time.' From a long review in Spectator, June 12, 1912–“ In its kind bis book is a Inasterpiece-modest, learned thorough and sympathetic. Perhaps no (ther man living has the learning and happy industry for the task he has successfully accoin plished.” From a review by Dr. Ollenburg in the Frankfutur Zeitung, DCcellber 3, 19ll (translated by the la te Dr. Thibaut) The account of Chaitanya's influence On the poetical literature of Bengal contributes one of the most brilli 'anti sectio) 8 of the work,' From a review in the Replie Critique, January, 1915 (translated for the Bengalee). One cannot praise too highly work of Mr. Se A profund and Original erudition has been associated with a vivid imagination. The works which he analyses are brought back to life with the consciousness of the original authors, with the movement of the multitudies who patronised them and with the landscape which encircled thern The historian, though relying on his documents, has the temperament of an epic Po. He has likewise inherited the lyrical genius al- through all his descriptions of his race. His enthusiastic sympathy vibrates th, 粗 ... The appreciation of life 80 rare in our. book-knowledge, runs throughout the work; one reads these thousand pages with a sustained interest; and one loses sight of the enormous labour which it presupposes One easily slips into the treasure of infortuation which it presents. 68
