The Presidency College Magazine September 1937

How much of English is to be explained by the historic fact that for some centuries Norman French was the language of Court and the courts of the hunting field and the castle English the language of the hovel? [...] The eternal maid and the eternal child are the index of the flux evolving definite and eternal types radiant in spirit ancj exhibiting the eternal mystery of the creation of the opposite types " in the deep and the timeless sea." The tidal wave of the cosmic play is the play of the mother divine—the Adya-Sakti Prakriti the Witness of time's birth. [...] But the vision passes on to the greater height —" God's own head rises on the Prophet." The poet then takes the reader through a march of subjective experiences of the cosmic dance the theopany in nature the lyrical pageantry passing into the abysmal mystery of the void. [...] II The author in the second part of the book carries us through the search for " the transcendent conceived as supernatu1e through the presentation of Magian Mysticism and Platonic Knight Errantry." His imaginary Knight the truth-seeker defies the church the empire in the name of the commonwealth of reason " the cosmic order star-writ in Heaven." The wizard knight has brought Alit to many [...] Sir Brojendra Nath's theme approaches the theme of the Leaves of the Grass but he has not spoken of the tremor of the universal spirit in man but has raised the Cosmic Man to the level of the World-Soul and envisages the ushering of a new epoch in civilization which sings the glory of Man and preaches the new gospel of Cosmic Man.