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Here with an infant joyful sponsors come, 



Then bear the new-made Christian to its home ; 



A few short years, and we behold him stand 



To ask a blessing with his bride in hand ; 



A few still, seeming shorter, and we hear 



His widow weeping over her husband's bier ; 



Tims, as the months succeed, shall infants take 



Their names, while parents them and us forsake ; 



Thus brides again and bridegrooms blithe shall kneel 



Bj love or law compelled their vows to seal ; 



Ere I again or one like me explore 



These simple annals of the village poor." 

 On the whole, though reaching Simla proved a grateful change to 

 the hard fare and vicissitudes of hill travelling, I did not now expe- 

 rience the same buoyant feelings of pleasure as on my first visit in 

 early summer, and it was with less regret, therefore, that I commen- 

 ced immediate preparations for quitting pleasant friends and a fine cli- 

 mate and once more devoting myself to routine pursuits in the plains. 



Notices of works connected with Sanskrit Literature. 



The Bhdmini Vilasa of Panditaraja Jagannatha, edited by Pandit 

 Jadu Nath Tarkaratna. 



Calcutta, 1862. 



This is an edition of one of the modern Sanskrit poets, whose 

 works are very scarce and consequently but little known. Like the 

 modern Latin poets of Europe, Panditaraja Jagannath has but a 

 reflected beauty, — he feels only at second hand ; still he has consi- 

 derable elegance of style and occasionally even some originality of 

 thought. Dr. Aufrecht, in his Catalogue, would fix his date as late 

 as the emperor Akber, but we know not on what grounds. The only 

 personal allusion in the poems themselves is in the last stanza but 

 one. 



" I have read all the Sustras and performed all the necessary rites, 

 and my early days were spent under the branch of the hand of 

 Dehli's lord, but now I have changed my dwelling place and worship 

 Hari in Mathura ; I have achieved all superhuman tasks, the orna- 

 ment of the assembly of pre-eminent pandits." 



