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classic language of India within a very reasonable time. The work is 

 an elementary one, but the learned author, Pandita Isvarachandra 

 Vidyasagara, promises a more comprehensive work on the subject, which 

 we shah hail with much pleasure. 



A new edition of the works of Bharatachandra has issued from 

 the Purnachandrodaya Press. It is, like most works published under 

 native editorship, very imperfect. It has no preface, is full of errors, 

 and abounds in doubtful readings, not to be met with in the most 

 authentic editions of the work. In one place an entire poem, the 

 celebrated Chorapanchasat, is introduced as the composition of Bha- 

 ratachandra. We are not aware if the bard of Nadia himself ever 

 claimed the authorship of this exquisite poem, but certain it is that none 

 of his editors, and among them were the late excellent poet and scholar 

 Radhamohana Sena, and Pandita Madanamohana Tarkalankara, has 

 thought fit to attribute to him the credit of a composition, which is 

 well known throughout India as the writing of Chora. 



Rev. J. Long has published a sheet containing some English words 

 similar to Bengali in sound and sense, and illustrative of the etymological 

 affinity which exists between the English and Bengali languages. The 

 specimens are in most instances very apposite, and we hope the learned 

 author will continue his researches and some day favour the literary 

 public with further contributions on this much neglected but in- 

 teresting subject, on the philosophical principles of Bopp and Pott. 



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