16 SEPTEMBER 1893, Page 24

The Ndladivar : Pour Hundred Quatrains in Tamil. By the

Rev. G. N. Pope, M.A. (Clarendon Press.) —Dr. Pope translates and annotates his Tamil classics, explains its literary history in a general introduction, and adds a concordance and lexicon. In short, he makes the path of the student of Tamil as easy as possible. Dr. Pope's translations are very properly in prose. If some one with the genius and, we may add, the courage of Edward Fitzgerald would take them in hand, something like "Omar Khayyam " might be the result.