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 12 01015. grateful, acknowledgment of the services he has received from his collaborators. * * * He had to collect MSS. either himself or through friends, to read them, to classify them, and to digest them. The remoteness of his residence, in an out- of-the-way corner of Bengal, was a great drawback to him. It entailed a great deal of correspondence on him, and the progress of his work was often hindered by the dilatoriness of correspondents. But he has surmounted all those and other difficulties, and his work is now before the public. The public, in its turn, has received him kindly and his work is appreciated. deserves the credit of a discoverer. He has laid bare one stratum of thought, and one phase of authorship, the value of which cannot be over-rated. His services in respect of Vaishnava literature, too, are very great.” Mr. A. C. Sen, M.A., C.S., late District and Sessions Fudge, Rangpur, wrote referring to the tliness of the author caused by his labours in compiling the work— ‘It is no exaggeration to say that the great work is both his monument and epitaph.” Mr. B. C. Mitra, M.A. C.S., District and Sessions Fudge, Cuttack, writes— “JT can say with the utmost confidence that it is a work which will ensure the permanence of your name and loving labour in the annals of Bengali literature. I am thinking, as soon as | am permitted time, of writing a review of it. For the present, I will content myself with saying that it is a book of the merits and usefulness of which I entertain the very highest opinion. In wealth of details, it rivals Morley’s First Sketch ; in power of graphic language, it rivals Taine ; in subtlety of critical analysis, it rivals Dowden. Your close study of the earliest classics in Bengali has been helpful in investing your language with a delicacy, a refinement, a
 * * * In the matter of Eastern poets, Babu Dinesh Chandra