able Brahmin youth and the other a shrewd Vysya youngman. The slights and sounds met with on the raod-side of the great medieval city are described with great gusto by the brahmin voluptuary. It is not for nothing that he takes for his companion a Vysya youth. The letter is the purse-keeper of the party and has to find besides funds for journey, any missing links of informations such as the account, he gives of the strange ointment sold in the market ! Here are pictures of the social life of the Andhra country in the middle ages, pertaining to the middle or lower middle class of the community. Tailors and basket-mkers, gamblers and venal beauties, sculptures and ;aintings, pageants in honour of Gods and heroes, the Brahmin Hotel which caters to the best taste at a rupee a meal, young widows whose austerities have no bearing on personal character, snake-charmers and dancing girls, cock-flights and ram-flights--all these are vividly and unreservedly described in these pages.
I do not know it there is any other Telugu work which presents such a graphic pictures of life in the middle ages in the Telugu country. Srinadha is the Byron of Telugu Literature. He has the virtues and the vices of the English poet. His poetry virile, realistic and scholarly. he travelled much and was highly respected in the Courts of the great Andhra Kings Like Byron he was an incorrigible voluptuary. And finally his poetry also is incorrigible voluptunary. And finally his poetry also is autobiographical, though not to such a large measure. But the work before us, besides being Byronian, in Chaucerian in its character. The "gat-toothed wife of Barh,' the "Miller with the thumb of Gold," the "Gentle Pardoner" the "Sumnour whith the Cherubrin's face"--all these have their
