"Tue Crovo Messexcen."—An Indian love "Lyric, "translated from iginal Sanskrit. of Kalidasa by Gharles King. "Published by John array.
Kalidasa, foremost writer of the second epoch of Sanskrit literature, was one of the "nine gems" at the Court of King Vikramaditya at Ujjain, who flourished about A. 35, His fame rested chiefly on hi dramas, but he was also dist iguished as an epic and lyric poet. The mest important of his lyrical poems, which is here translated by Charles King, describes the journey of a cloud across India, charged with message from a lover to his beloved; it is full of deep feeling and abounds with vivid descriptions.
ity of nature from the Vindyha Mountains to the Hima-
Underlying the beauty: of the however, is an extreme ity of diction which. occasionally takes the form of conceit and play upon words. Charles King has faithfully reproduced these defects in what would otherwise have been the English version of a lyrie of unsurpassed beaut When we read "......the eust untended washed with' Water only, that hangeth now Unto her check, she scatters pee the scare the bod thats her ower lip, Night, that in love's ewe society with me peeeed as the twink= Ling of an eye, she wastes with barn: Ing fears that coded her couch of we are seized simultaneously with a sense of unreality and wonder at such clumsy expression of an in-
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