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emulate his manner, which he preached as well as practised by way of preference.

Two great poets, who, after him, burst before the reading public with startling novelties of method, were Peddanna and Bhattu Murthi. Both of them had the capacity and the worth to figure as epoch-makers --each in his own way. Both made the effort. But one alone of them i. e. the latter of them came off triumphant. Such as are struck with Peddanna's originality and his freedom from a penchant for secking ideas for words rather than words for ideas, might wonder at this result. But it is not difficult to account for it, as I shall soon endeavour to shew when I come to deal with Bhattu Murthi. In the meantime, let me complete my view of Peddanna. It must be owned that, with all his conspicuous talent, Peddanna has nowhere tried to melt us into tears or rouse us to any fights by " thoughts that breathe or words that burn." He has treatedl us to the commonplaces of human affairs and to the physical effects of the sort of love, which coarser minds gloat over and which we want no poet to describe to the world. The subject of love-as a theme for a poet—is, ordinarily, an easy one to work out, as has been very properly held by discerning critics. What are really its noblest workings and its claims for admiration are a heroic fortitude and a whole-souled devotion, in the face of odds and in defiance of disquieting doubt or