The New Review February 1938

The Kashmiri was there and the Gujarati the Nepali and the Munda the Burmese and the Sinhalese the Mahratta and the Khol. [...] Further he uses the word `reversal' instead of 'substitution' : 'By a reversed foot I mean the putting the stress where to judge by the rest of the measure the slack should be and the slack where the stress and this is done freely at the beginning of a line and in the course of a line after a pause.' Hopkins thought that further freedom in versifiction was possible. [...] `The Will of God is the essential the real element and the power of everything ; it is the will of God that adjusts and adapts them to the soul : without it all is emptiness lies vanity the letter (as distinguished from the spirit) the bark (as distinguished from the tree) and death. [...] The devotion therefore which the mythology of the avatars inspires in the Bhagavata may give an insight into the lesson which the Catholic faith reads in the very common reality of the world and of any of its creatures : 'If we could see the life of God and could contemplate all creatures not in themselves but in their principle if we could also see the life of God in all objects how his div [...] The only other area where I have seen something distantly approaching this happy state of things is in the142 THE NEW REVIEW Damin area of the Santal Parganas of the present Province of Bihar where a simpler and more direct system of administration than in other areas of the Province has helped to preserve something of the simplcity of character and natural cheerfulness of the Paharia and to s