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Show rirst llillnn la Iinlla. The first Englishman who Is known for-cmiu to have gone out to India was, according to a recent correspondent correspond-ent tu oil I ml in ii paper, a cerluln Thus. Stephens, a member of a well to do Wiltshire family and an Oxonian, who lander somewhere near lloa about the yenr ir7tt. and spent forty years In Jesuit nilnsiouury work lu Cos and the neighborhood. Stephens not only succeeded suc-ceeded In mnslerlng M unit 111 and Kon-kiiul, Kon-kiiul, which were the languages spoken by the majority ot the people on the West Const, but left behind blm, among other works In Mnruthl of lit ernry merit, the "l'urana," an epic; and It la In bis capacity na tho author ot this that Stephens' name Is best known among the West Cuust lnhub-habitants. lnhub-habitants. Tho poem contains over 11.000 strophes of four Hues ench. It narrates. nar-rates. In a. lofty style, the events that' led up to the estubl'sliincnt of the Christian religion, sml from the Creation Crea-tion to the Asi-ensiou of our Ixird, who llgurrs as the hero of the epic, A new edition of the "I'urniia" Is to be published pub-lished In Mangnhirc, no printed copy of Ihe work b.'lug loa avalluble. The Athenaeum. |