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The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) April 1928

1928

Wordsworth considered words the incarnation of thought "not what the garb is to the body but what the body is to the soul themselves a constituent part and power and function in the thought." Before him Johnson and Chesterfield in accord for once after him Carlyle and Samuel Butler all denied similarly that words are merely the verbal vesture of thought. [...] It is the reflex of a writer's habit of mind of the peculiar atmophere in which his thought moves and has its being of his special sense of fact of all the influences of heredity and enviroment of education and experience that combine to make the man. [...] Writing in the literary sense is the art of the few speaking is the business of the many and the forms that fit the one do not suit the other. [...] Similarly the style of every writer should be judged on its own merits taking into account the subject the individual the aim and the art and so the simple styles of Bunyan Swift and Defoe on the one hand and the gaudy styles of Gibbon Pater and Ruskin on the other will each be found to have its own special timbre. [...] Thus the Polish representatives in the League of Nations ak8emanding a new pact which will have a far wider scope resembling the Locarno Pact and the Dutch Foreign Minister supported -by the representatives of many small nations has put forward a resolution in the League Assembly to revive the General Security Pact of 1924 which was discarded by the League of Nations dun to the oppositiob of
history
Pages
137
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-viii unknown view
Prose Style
1-22 Lionel Burrows view
Education for Peace
23-28 Taraknath Das view
A Stray Thought
29-29 Rash Basu view
Historical Studies
30-48 J.P. Bulkeley view
On Modernising Spinoza
49-71 Saroz Das view
Some More Early Indian Visitors to England
72-73 Harihar Das view
Juvenile Crime the Young Criminal
74-80 Augustus Somerville view
W. B. Yeats
81-102 Jaygopal Banerjee view
Communal Representation
103-112 Kazi Ali view
The Inland Bills of Exchange
113-121 B. Rau view
Reviews
122-126 S.N. Sen view
Ourselves
127-128 unknown view

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