Extracts from Opinions of Scholars and the Press On Volume I of the Karnataka Kavich arite or Lives of Kannada Poets The work on Kannada literature which is being published •by my Assistant Mr R 'Narasimhachar, M A is the only one of the kind and of the greatest value for the history of the language. It may be accepted as a standard authority and is well deserving of the utnost patronage and encourage ment of the Governments of those countries in which the Kannada language prevails, as well as of the Universities of Madras, and Bombay.—Mi. B Lewis Rice, C I E. I have read your introduction and looked into some pages of the book itself, with great interest; and I can sinCerely congratulate you and your ollaborateur Mr S. G. Narasimhachar on the value of the work that you have turned out -Dr J F, Fleet, C. I. E. I must congratulate you on the completion of what must have been a very heavy task, not without its own delight and reward --Rev E. W. Thompson, M. A. I am so glad to be able to congratulate you and your fellow-worker, Mr, S. G. Narasimhacharyar, on this excellant addition you have succeeded in making to Kanarese literature. It is clear in almost every page of the book that it must have cost you both enormo'is labour and thought in producing it Only those, that have done work of the kind with old manuscripts and unpublished material, can know how trying it must have been to collect the matter, to arrange it well, and to give it the chronological consistency you have so well succeeded in doing,--Professor M. Rangacharya, M A.
