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Rh has published the second volume of his Rámáyana of Tulsi Dás translated from the Hindi. The Hindi Rámáyana has doubtless had a greater influence on the popular religious ideas of the Hindus than many more elaborate or masterly works, and the translation will form, therefore, a very good introduction to the study of modern Hindu belief. The author states that the seventh and last book is almost ready for the press, and that he intends next year to republish the whole work in one volume copiously illustrated with really native art, exhibiting the conventional teatment of the favourite subjects taken from this poem. This will be a most interesting method of familiarising English readers with native conceptions of the beautiful both in art and poetry; and the English reader will be able to follow with complete confidence the English version of so accomplished a Hindi scholar as Mr. Growse."—Academy, December 18, 1880.

" second portion of Mr. Growse's translation is in no way inferior to the first, of which a second edition has, we see, been called for; while the English is throughout idiomatic, the spirit of the original is carefully preserved."—Calcutta Review.