The New Review July 1936

The Gandlraras the Mahisis the Matsyas the Nagas the Garudas and Bahlikas point to the presence of much Dravidian blood in the veins of North-Indian people.' Brahui and Uraon two Dravidian languages now spoken in Northern India also suggest the domination of the ancient Dravidians over the whole of Northern India. [...] Hunter have studied the Mohenjo-Daro script in a very scholarly way from different points of view ; but their tendency is to carry the comparison between the working of this script and the working of the Brahmi scripts of India too far practically forgetting that the latter is a phonetic alphabet and the former an essentially pictographic sort of writing. [...] Yet the character of each of them is well defined for the adjective which qualifies the noun always comes before the noun and the verb comes at the end of the sentence as in modern Dravidian languages. [...] Frensham Place reflected this good fortune with its chapel and conservatories the heavy silver and the thick bright carpets the painted allegories crowding the wall spaces and above the well of the staircase the copies of the Titians flaming in their massive gilded frames. [...] So much of the delicacy of his sense of values was reflected in the setting of his later years in Europe his interest in mysticism and the technique of prayer and the symbolism of the Divine as well as his feeling for the more delicate expressions of oriental art.