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the above title in the Tattwabodhini Patrika, the organ of the Calcutta 

 Yedantists. The author has taken Combe's Constitution of Man for 

 his guide, and most ably advocated the opinions of those who maintain 

 that the best food of man is derived from the vegetable kingdom. The 

 style of writing is remarkably pure and elegant, and affords an excel- 

 lent instance of the facility with which Sanskrita vocables may be 

 introduced into Bengali to the utter exclusion of all foreign elements, 

 which constitute so material a portion of the Indian vernaculars. 



2. Lamb's Tales of Shakespeare, translated into Bengali by Babu 

 Udayachandra Addya, Purnachandrodaya Press, 1853, 1 vol. 8vo. An- 

 other version of these tales is, we are informed, now in the press, and 

 will, ere long, be published by the Yernacular Literature Committee. 



3. Bhaktamala or the Garland of the Eaithful, being a resume of 

 the works of Nabhaji, Narayana Dasa and Krishna Dasa. 1853, 8vo. 

 The work includes notices of nearly three hundred Yaishnava saints, 

 and abounds in a variety of insipid and extravagant legends. " It ex- 

 ercises," says Professor Wilson, " a powerful influence in Upper India 

 on popular belief, and holds a similar place in the superstitions of 

 this country, as that which was occupied in the dark ages of the 

 Roman Catholic faith by the Golden Legend and Acts of the Saints." 



4. Macaulay's Life of Lord Clive, translated into Bengali by 

 Babu Harachandra Datta, and published by the Yernacular Litera- 

 ture Committee, Calcutta, 1852, 8vo. This work has been very well 

 received by the Hindu community, and, it is said, a second edition 

 will be published immediately. 



5. An Essay on the Sanskrit language and literature ; by Pandit 

 Isvarachandra Yidyasagara, read at a meeting of the Bethune 

 Society on the 13th of April, 1853. — Sanskrita Press, 1853. 



As a writer the Pandit has a happy facility in expressing his 

 meaning with perspicuity in the simplest and most polished lan- 

 guage. Clearness, indeed, is the leading character of his composi- 

 tion, which is a fair specimen of the best prose of the Bengal ver- 

 nacular. His remarks on the Sanskrita poets are generally very 

 judicious. 



The Essay is a laudable attempt to raise the Bengali to be an 

 instrument of literary criticism — a task of which the writer more 

 than once owns the difficulty. 



