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It is a most useful publication and must have involved immense la bour, reading and research, Unless the Govern ment set apart some money for bonuses for such work, I fear that very few would undertake such labour as you have done.--Mr. M. Shama Rao, M. A. There are few persons who take to archeological and historical research This defect they have nobly supplied by this epoch-m aking work They have really done yeoman's service to the Kannadıgas and Kannada literature by supplying them with a Jong-felt want The illustrative poetical passages have been skilfully selected Several wrong notions have been corrected.--MR H Desapande, M A. I have read your Kavacharite inore than three times and the more 1}read the greater is my admiration for it Surely that one book, even if there were nothing else, is enough to give you undying fame.--Mr B Rama Rao, M. A., L L. B. The issue of this book, as the first volume of a series, the title of which means “Lives of Kannada or Kanarese Poets," inaugurates a scheme for exhibiting the history of Kanarese literature from the earliest time to which it can be traced back. Some studies in this line of research have been given to us by the Rev. F Kittel and by Mr. Rice. The present writers, however, aim at a much more exhaustive treatment, and, basing their work on various important collections of manuscripts and also on the inscriptions of Southern India as far as they ha ve been exploited, they have made an excel, lent start: they have brought the matter in detail down to the end of the fourteenth century A D. In compiling the present volume, they have succeeded in tracing out and bringing to light a variety of authors and works not previously known. In addition to that, and to the inclusion of many new facts about such writers and works as were already known, they claim to have established the following points. Mr. R. Narasimhachar had already, in the in