HISTORY
OF
Bengali Language and Literature.
A series of lectures delivered as Reader
to the Calcutta University.
by
DINESH CHANDRA SEN, B.A.
Fellow of the Calcutta University, Associate Member of the Asiatic
Society of Bengal, Honorary Member of the Indian Research
Society, Author of Banga Bhasa-O-Sahitya
and other Bengali works,
&c., &c., &c.
"This language, current through an extent of country nearly equal to Great Britain, when properly cultivated, will be inferior to none in elegance and perspicuity."
William Carey.
"Bengali unites the mellifluousness of Italian with the power possessed by German of rendering complex ideas."
F. H. Skrine.
CALCUTTA.
Published by the University.
1911.
