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glorious life, The wife feels proud of a husband who pleads so well in excuse of a fatal policy, and sends him to war with her sweet blessings. So felt King Henry IV. in the hands of great Shakespeare, when his wild heir-apparent pleaded to him his clever excuse for putting on his crown even while his royal father was alive on his deathbed. :

Samal, the contemporary and rival of the great Premanand, was a poet of human nature, but he ap- proached his subject from a different stand-point. Both of them were engaged in employing what has been called the poet’s process of widening nature, and they were both widening the nature of man—giving it a further development. But the fields in which they employed this process were not the same. While Premanand studied and pictured out the beautiful and the sublime in human hearts, Sdmal sang of their greatness as manifested in the powers and potentialities of will and intelligence when allowed to be freed from the artificial shackles of local prejudices, and his mission was to raise the eyes of his audience to that point. It was not, however, the philosophical or the religious powers of the soul to which he referred. It was the mundane greatness of the soul that he sang, and his cir- cumstances both led and confined him to this. He was a Bréhman by caste, but his patron was Rakhiyal, a great land-holder of the Kunbi caste, who lived in a village