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Miss NOBLE, urged by an enthusiasm for modern Hinduism as preached in Bengal which is shared by few of her countrywomen, has edited a pleasant selection of the classical religious tales of India. She divides them into several cycles—snake tales; the story of Siva; Indian wifehood, including the famous tale of Nala and Damayanti; selections from the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics; the adventures of Krishna; tales of the devotees and of great kings. The tales, of course, are derived from a literature familiar to all scholars, and Miss Noble would perhaps have done more useful service to folk-lore by collecting some of the great mass of folk-tales hitherto unrecorded. Her version is pleasant and interesting, but we are doubtful of the prospects of its success in English nurseries.
Cradle Tales of Hinduism.
By Sister Nivedita Margaret E. Noble ). Pp. xv + 343. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1907.) Price 5s. net.
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Cradle Tales of Hinduism . Nature 77, 605 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077605b0
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