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O y औदन-5ब्रिङ । Vidyasagar has at last condescended to see "Great merit' in it, and the Someprokash has spoken out in a favourable manner. The book is growing popular. I don't know if you read the Education Gazette. If you do, you have no doubt seen the Editor's remarks ‘on blank verse. I do not think R.--either reads or can appreciate Milton ; otherwise he would not have made those remarks in the concluding portion of his article. He reads Byron, Scott and Moor, very nice poets in their way no doubt, but by no means of the highest School of poetry, except, perhaps, Byron, now and then. I like Wordsworth better. I am just now reading Tasso in the original,- an Italian gentleman having presented me with a copy. Oh what luscious poetry. If God spares me, for some years yet, I shall write a poem, a Romantic one in the Ottava Rima or stanzas of eight lines like his. Perhaps I shall write your "fire G free” in that measure. I have no news to give you. I read no newspaper and seldom stir out of home, but you may rest assured that I am looking out, with great impatience, for the Durga-Puja-Holidays, because then I hope to see you in town. Old father John Long is decidedly taken up with Blank Verse. He told Gour the other day -“In the course of four or five years Dutt will, if spared, revolutionise the language of your country' I must now couclude. Write to me, my boy, and believe me, Ever your most affectionate Michael M. S. Dutt.