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কৃষ্ণকুমারী নাটক । 8 ԴՓ to make anything of it. But you are a first-rate fellow and not many years ago, neither you nor I should have thought it extraordiary to see the name frtwritten R3 or any such orthographical eccentricity. Really what rapid advances our language ( I feel half-tempted to use the words of Alfieri and say “Nostra Divina Lingua” ) is making towards perfection and how it is shaking off its sleep of ages. You must try and see what you can do with thc enclosed. As a reader of the liomeric Epos, you will, no doubt, be reminded of the Fourteenth llliad, and I am not ashamed to say that I have intentionally, imitated it-Juno's visit to Jupiter on Mount Ida I conly hope I have given the Episode as thorough a Hindu air as possible. I never like to conceal anything from you, so that you must not think me vain if I say that in my heart I begin to believe that this Meghanad is glowing up to be a splendid Poem fancy the versification more melodius and Virgilian and the language easy and soft. You will probably miss in this Poem the rather roughish elevation of its predecessor. But I must leave you to judge for yourself. The Tilottama is going on well. The first edition is nearly exhausted. Even the stiff old pundits are beginning to unbend themselves, and the "Someprokash" has spoken out in a manner rather encouraging than otherwise. Blank verse is the 'go' now. As old Runjit Sing used to say, when looking at the map of India,-"Sub dal hofaga' I say "Sub Blank verse ho