Eastern Bengal Ballads 1924-26

Tds. nirtri Tint ballad 411c the Yonnicz, Herdsman Ditto ditto (Second 'Version) Preface to the ballad of Kanchanrna . The ballad of Kanchanmala or the Bride of a Blind Bally The ballad of Karichantill Ia — Allot her vorsion Preface to the ballad of Santi The ballad of 82-mti Preface to the ballad of ifbelua, the Beautiful One . The ballad of Bheluni, tIii Beautiful One Preface to the hAllad o [...] The spring of poetry was in the heart of the masses—in the artless souls of the rural people. [...] The song of the Washer- maiden, that of Kanchan- rnala, of Lila and the incomplete ballad of the Herdsman. [...] The most striking of the ballads of this school in some points, though decidedly not one of tile very lwst of them, is the ballad The Adventurous career of a younf, Daeoit. " It gives a (rash account of country-life on the banks of the great rivers of Eastern Bengal, Of xe love-romance, full cif the freedom and flavour of rural scenes--with much quaint humour and varied scenes of action, giving u [...] designs of the great Buddhist sanctuary knoi. vn us the Barabodar Temple of Java and of the sublime llindu tigizres iu the Prahmva- hanam its tlie Island of Earliest of thew works These carry us to the: 3311 and centuries travellers of the hiu. h seas assuredly marchetl on board the ships constructed by the 13alamis on the hanks of the K. arnafuli in.