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exhilarate the heart; for, in my humble judgment, a poet misses the first or main function of his vocation, when he fails to attune the reader's feelings to the spirit and sentiment, portrayed in the context. The aspects and forms of nature our countrymen have around them, must also tend to predispose those among thein, who are gifted with a lively creative faculty or a playful fancy, in the direction of grandeur in the imagery they conceive and the style of writing they would choose. Face to face with a nature, decked out in the picturesque garb of diversified scenery-- giant trees, with outstretching branches and a luxury of foliage : bright flowers, glowing in endless varieties of hues; mighty hills, rising higher and higher in grandeur and altitude: majestic rivers and mountain torrents, moving nobly or boisterously on--few, imbued with any degree of an impassioned mind, could with stand being led, if not seduced, into forming conceptions in unison with that nature's sublimity and setting them forth in language which would satisfy the claims of what is known as "imitative harmony." To this overpowering fascination, Sreenadha-a gay Lothario by the way and not overburdened with veneration for the God of that nature-readily, perhaps unconsciously, yielded. His masterly genius made his example infectious, and it had the general effect of dazzling men's minds and of emboldening the timid and the ambitious, fearlessly to imitate and
