OPINIONS 597 History of Bengali literature, and of it we may safely say “ finis coron at opus.” How I wish that a similar work could be compiled for other Indian languages specially for Hindi, y THE VAISINAVA ILITERATURE OF MEDIAEVAL BENGAL Being lectures delivered as Render to the University of Calcutta. By DR. DINESHCHANDRA SEN, D.LIrT., RA BAJIADUR. l)emy 8vo, 257 pages with a preface BY ESQ., I.C.S. (retired). Price Rs. 2. Times Literary Supplement-" The Rai Sahib is filled with a most patriotic love of his nation and its literature and has done more than any contemporary countryman to widen our knowledge of thema. It is an authentic record of the religious emotion and thought of that wonderful land of Bengal which faw of its Western rulers, we suspect, have rightly comprehended, not from any lack of friendly sympathy but simply from want of precisely what Mr. Sen better than any one living, better than Sir Rabindranath Tagore himself, can supply. J. D. ANDERSON, When all is said there remains the old indefinable charm which attaches to all that Dineshchandra Sen writes, whether in English or his native Bengali. In his book breathe a native candour and piety which somehow reunind us of the classical writers familiar to our boyhood. In truth he is a belated contemporary of, say, Plutarch, and attacks his biographical talk in much the same spirit.' J. D. Anderson, Esq., retired I.C.S., Professor, Cambridge University-" I propose to send with it, if circumstances leave me the courage to write it, a short preface (which I hope you will read with pleasure even if you do not think it worth publication), explaining why, in the judgment of a very old student of all your works, your book should be read not only in Calcutta, but in London and Paris, and Oxford and Cambridge. I have read it and am reading it with great delight and profit and very real sympathy. Think how great must be the charm of your topic and your treatment when in this awful year of anxiety and sorrow, the reading of your delightful MS. has given me rest and refreshment in a time when every post, every knock at the door, may bring us sorrow.' THE FOLK LITERATURE OF BENGAL BY DR. DINESHCHANDRA SEN, D.LITT, RAI BAHADUR, Calcutta University Press. Times Literary Supplement, May 13, 1923--"What makes Mr. Sen's books so delightful to us in Europe is precisely this indefinable Hindu quality, specifically
