Excerpt from History of Burma Including Burma Proper, Pegu, Taungu, Tenasserim, and Arakan: From the Earliest Time to the End of the First War With British India The poem abounds with imagery of Eastern luxuriousness and sensuousness; the air seems laden with the spicy odours of the tropics, and the verse has a richness and a. Melody sufficient to captivate the senses of the dullest. -standard. The translator, while producing a very enjoyable poem, has adhered With toler able fidelity to the original text. Overland Mail. We certainly wish Mr. Arnold success in his attempt 'to popularise Indian classics, ' that being, as his preface tells us, the goal towards which he bends his efforts. - Allen's Indian Mail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.