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)

' MAKUNDA RAM CHAKRAVARTI. 127 ,

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WitHa heavy heart aud bitter tears she goes througjh.this
ur,acrlustomed and humiliatiug'drudgery, and the account
of her long sufferings and sorrows, and wanderings in
fields and forests, her soliloquies and addressed to birds,
which resemble in tone, but excel in pathos, Burns' "Ye
banks and brakes O'bonnie Doon," her weariness, and sleeping
and dreaming of her mother, and her grief on waking,—
these are probably the sublimest passages in the work,
and among the most touching and beautiful passages that
we have anywhere read.* ► ,

, * We make a few extracts here.

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It was for a SUh bird that a cage was to be manufactured from
Eastern Bengal, and Khullona fmrsts forth into an exclamation of
grief and rage on seeing a pair of Silk birds on the tree :—