Auld Lang Syne Second Series My Indian Friends

The author reveals that his first volume of Auld Lang Syne contained recollections of musicians, poets, crowned heads, and beggars, such as had not entirely vanished from the camera obscure of his memory. The present volume is chiefly devoted to ray Indian Friends, and to certain events that first led his attention to India. Though he has had but visions of the rivers, the mountains, the valleys, the forests, and the men and women of India, having never been allowed to visit that earthly paradise, he has known for many years the beauties of its literature, the bold flights of its native philosophy, the fervid devotion of its ancient religion, and these together seem to him to give a much truer picture of what India really was, and is still meant to be in the history of the world. Of course, as per author his picture of India is purely ideal, but an ideal portrait may sometimes be truer than even a photograph, and, though he trusts that his facts on the whole are right, he shall always feel most grateful, if any facts are pointed out to him which either contradict or modify his own judgments. The subject matter of the book is good. The book is good for all.