RAKSHANYA YATHRIKUM - II part

PREFATORY NOTE

This new edition of the Rakshanya Yathrikam has been prepared at the request of many admirers of the work of the Vidvan Henry Alfred Krishna Pillay by the Rev. Masillamony, B.D., of Pasumalai, and with the kind permission Mr. Doss Krishniah, B.A.,L.T., who has been appointed Exe- or for the works of Vidvan Krishna Pillay. The Tamil Christian public will be very grateful to Mr. Doss Krishniah for the strenu- efforts that he has made for some years in order to get this rk published, and the editors and publishers desire to acknowledge his disinterested generosity in this matter.

Acknowledgement is specially due to Pandit Rev. S. Masillamony, B.D., for having seen the whole work through press, and to the Christian Literature Society for publishing it at the risk of some loss. It is hoped that the public both Christian and Hindu will show their appreciation of this effort by ruling themselves of the opportunity of studying the fine verses happy imagery of the poet in this rendering of the Pilgrim's press into clear and flowing Tamil.

CALCUTTA  
15-5-1931

H. A. POPLEY