I SHALL not attempt any labored encomiums of Shakspeare, or endeavor to set forth his perfections, at a time when such universal and just applause is paid him, and when every tongue is big with his boundless fame. He himself tells us — " To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To …
Shri Harsha, the celebrated poet of 12th century, has mentioned the name of Nepal in Naishadiya Charitam, as we read on 12/43. But at the time of Kalidasa 1st century B. C. it seems to me that Nepal was not in the same political form as she is at present. Then the Western Nepal was in .Uttarakoshala and the Eastern was in Mithila, as is learnt from the Sarayumahatmya and Mithilamahatmya. It …
This Monograph, reprinted from Oceania, Vol. XI, No. i, pp. 40-74, contains the substance of three lectures given at my request by Dr. Capell in March of this year to a group of Administrative Officers and Missionaries. Most persons engaged in administrative and missionary work in Papua and New Guinea require, at least some knowledge of phonetics and some facility of writing down the sounds the…