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Chandra—His life and a review of his poems—Onomatopoetic expressions used by him, and other points about style and rhyming. Praṅa Rama Chakravarty 662-678.

II. (a) The court of Raja Rajavallabha of Dacca—Its poets, Jayanārāyaṅa and Anandamayī, 679.—Rajanagara, the capital-town of Raja Rajavallabha—the catastrophe of 1871.—Family history of Jayanārāyaṅa and Ānandamayi—Extracts from their writings, 679-687—The poets of the school of Bharata Chandra, 687—Chandra Kanta, Kaminī Kumāra and other poets—Their bad taste—Giridhara's translation of the Gīta Govinda, 687-691.

III. Poetry of Rural Bengal 692.—The villages of Bengal—Renunciation, the goal of Hindu life—The songs, 692-696.

(a) Kaviwalas and their songs, 692.—Dañdā kavis—Raghu, the cobbler—Rāma Vasu—the bashful Hindu wife—Rasu Nara Siṁha—His high spiritual tone—The mother-hood, 692—703.—A list of Kaviwallas—Songs by Haru Thakur—The Portuguese Kaviwala Mr. Antony, 703-709.

(b) Religious songs—710.—The boatman's song—The rustic songs, 710-712.

(c) Rama Prasada Sen, and the poets of his school, 712.—Life of Rāma Prasāda Sen—Kalī, the mother—The Çakta interpreters—Kalī, a mere symbol—The image.—A European critic on Rāma Prasāda—His songs, 712-721—Other song-writers—Rāma Kriṣṅa of Nattore—Rām Dulala. 721-724.

IV. The Yatras or Popular Theatres, 724.—Their defects and incongruities—Redeeming points—Lament of Chandrāvali and the interpretation by the master-singer—The grief of the playmates, 724-730.—Vidya Sundara Yātrās

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