Dutt, Romesh Chunder: The literature of Bengal: being an attempt to trace the progress of the national mind in its various aspects, as reflected in the nation’s literature from the earliest times to the present day ; with copious extracts from the best writers (Calcutta, 1877)

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the^r traditional learning and knowledge of accounts ;—
the men of different professions, each following theUrade
of his father ;—all these seem to speak and move around
us and live'-for ever in the poet's descriptions.

Among the men who come to dwell in the new town,
C-ujrat, is one 'Bharu Dutt, an astute KayUstha and an
impudent impostor. The poet has displayed a, wonder-
ful power of character-painting in delineating (this charac-
ter. His vanity and conceit are remarkable, and the cool-
est impudence( supplies the place of real worth. We
subjoin a passage in which Bharu Dutt on his first meeting
with. Kalketu, the new King, gives a boastful account
of himelf. There is a vein of the richest humour pervad-
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