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interests of any cuinmunity, for public AB & clearmindod, sober and pare with the great epic of Tulsidas, there may be such thing as legi- foarler political speaker and writer; that mine of poetry, strong and timate opposition of interests; the as olitor of the Mo-lern Review beantiful thought and description conversion of Hindus to Mahorned- and the Prabasi he has raised the and deep spiritual force and sweetanism is against the interest of status and quality of Indian peri- ness. But it must have been Hindus and the conversion of odical literature to an extraordinary greater in its original forn than in Mahomeclans to Hinduisin is extent, and has recently been doin
extent, and has recently been doing its modom dress, ngainst the interest of Mahomedans, 1 yet more valunble and lasting
The grent value of the edition but neither religion cnn, on that service to his country by introdu
lies however in the illustrations, Kround, be denied the right of pro- cing the masterpieces of the new All the pictures are not excellent : Nelytition. If it bo argued that school of Art to his ronders. His indeed we must say quite frankly wherever the exercise of legitimnte present venture is not in itself an
thnt some of them aro an offence to rights may lead to a breach of the ambitious one, as it purports only to
the artistic perceptions and an afflicponce, that exercise my be tip provide il well-printed and beauti. tion to the eye and the soul. Others peil, we way that this is a inost fully illustrated edition of Kritti.
are masterpieces of the first rank. dangerous principles, since it would bas for family reading. With this
But in this collection of pictures, be enough for any section of the object the editor has taken the
most of them now well-known, we corrinunity to break or threaten to Batatala prints of the Ramayan as
have a sort of handy record of the brk the pet stap others frota his text and reproduced them with
progress of Art in India in recent the cyreise of their eigitimate the necessary corrections and the
times. Turning over the pages we rights, Onur grous Mr Asquith omission of few passages which
are struck first by the numerous should be delarned from holding offend nodern ideas of decorum.
reproductions of Ravivarma's picany meeting because the suffrs- Besides, the book is liberally illus
tures which were only recently so gettes climb walls and throw trnted with reproductions of recent
prominent in Indian houses and stone4 where he goes : Sucha pictures by artists of Bonubay and
even now, are painfully commons. principle simply menny putting Calcutta on subjects chosen from
ild we recall with wonder the time premium pon lawlessness. In the Ramayan.
when we could gaze upon these other countries the indiscreet une
The place of Krittibay in our crude failures without an immediate of powers by Magistrates is restraio
literature is well established. He revolt of all thnt was artistic within or by public opinion but in in
is one of the most considerable of 1. Could anything be more gross, dia there is no such safegunrd.
our old classics and one of the earthy, un-Indian and addrongor [ Since the above was in type, the
writors who most helpod to cronto purely to the oye than his "Deront Poliru have undertakun to prove the Bengali language is a literary
of Ganges," or more vulgar and their statuments, and the facts instrument. The s tes, simpli.
unbeautiful than the figure of Aja in stated above must be taken as city, lucidity, melody of the old
the "Denth of Indumati", or more Pandit Bhoju Dutt's sido oft he case. langunge is present in my line that
noulless and commonplace than the Our general criticisms of the policy of
Krittibas wrote, but in this recension Ahalya, # picture on a level with the order remain unaffected. The
at least, we miss the rey vigour and tho ruck of the most onlinary chance now given to the Police to
nervous vernacular for which was European printings for the market substantinto them
& gift of the CiU ought to
by obscure hands? Some of these
.'y writers. Our have been given to the Pandit before
impression is that the modern edi. efforts are absolutely laughable in the order was passed.--EDITOR. )
tions do not faithfully reproduce the cruderye of their conception the oil cassie anul that copyists of
and the incriciency of their execuINDIAN ART AND AN
tion; take for instance the fight more Betting and puristic tasto than critical ttagination or poetical
between Ravan and Jatayu. Raja OLD CLASSIC.
sympathy late polished away much Rukmangad's Ekadashi is one of
that was bess in the Bengali Riin- the few successes, but spirited as We have before us a new edition ayan. The old copies, we believe the work undoubtedly is, it is so of Krittibaa's Ramayan, edited and published by that indefatigable
in diction and metre, but more full workmanship that it establishes no literary and patriotic worker, Sj. of humanity, strength and the came to
clain to real artistic faculty. All Ramanand Chatterji. Ramananda rough and natural touch of the soil that can be said for this painter is Ribu is well known to the Bengali In no case can our Ramnyan con- thnt ho turned the Indian mind to nologenesisept waistepalpost కంతం దిరం 006 006 కు
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