This is a monumental four volume collection of the ballads of Bengal, arranged, translated and commented on with the untiring interest of the enthusiast and the skill of the expert scholar by the late Dr. Dineschandra Sen. The very seeds from which modern Bengali has sprung, these rustic songs, permeated by high poetry display a natural freedom in their form and spirit, untrammeled by the rigid canons of Brahmanical revival. Coming as they do, fresh and ...
