Kumbha will be appreciated throughout Bengal. It gives a
very full account of the man and his times. Your book reads
like a novel.
3. The Tribune (LAHORF) :—"It furnishes stimulating
reading to the general public, and at the same time forms in
some respects the nucleus for an outline of national history....
There are references to facts, circumstances and events hither-
to unpublished, and as such they present new and in many
respects fascinating pictures of life and conditions of the four-
teenth and fifteenth centuries. The monograph is not merely
an exciting narration of dynastic struggles, of battles lost and
won, of personal heroism and deeds of chivalry. It is also a
valuable record of social, political and moral activities that
afford some insight into mediæval Indian polity. The work
before us is also replete with instances of high moral worth
and great and noble ends which have been the inspiration of
princes and their councillors from time immemorial.
4. New India (MADRAS) :—The author is an able writer
and the theme suits his pen. Besides, when three Rajputs like
Chonda, ·Kumbha and Jodha are shown, playing their parts
simultaneously in a book like this, the story cannot but be of
absorbing interest.
5. The Hindustan Review (ALLAHABAD) :—Mr. Har Bilas
Sarda is a specialist in the history and traditions of Rajputana,
and his knowledge of the subject has been well utilized by him
in his historico-biographical sketch called "Maharana Kum-
bha." Mr. Sarda has produced an exceedingly interesting
account of his life and heroic career.
6. The Mahratta (POONA) says : "The author has made
full use of all the inscriptions, manuscripts and other resources
to bring his information up to date..............We can heartily
commend the book to the public. Books of this sort unveiling
our real past—full of many a glorious deed—serve to strength-
en our faith in our future."
7. The Amrit Bazar Patrika (CALCUTTA) : -The latest
work from that master hand is an historical sketch of that
great Rajput chief and hero, Maharana Kumbha: we have
read it with great pleasure. We recommend it to the Hindu
reading public which takes pride in our past glory.

THE PRITHVIRAJA VIJAYA.

Price : Re. 1.
The Modern Review (CALCUTTA) :—"This essay contains
a highly valuable and critical account of a Sanskrit poem on
Prithviraj......Mr. Sarda learnedly compares six chronological
tables of Prithviraj's dynasty from six difference sources and
gives interesting descriptions of Ajmer city and the king's
personal appearance."
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