finely
impressive climax; and the reader, who began in idle curiosity, finds
his intelligence more and more engaged until, when he turns the last
page, he has the feeling of one who has been moving in worlds not
realized, and communing with great if mysterious presences."

_The London Globe_.

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OTHER WORKS BY

=RABINDRANATH TAGORE=

_Nobel Prizeman in Literature, 1913_

=GITANJALI= (Song Offerings). A Collection of Prose Translations
made by the author from the original Bengali. New Edition $1.25

=THE GARDENER=. Poems of Youth $1.25

=THE CRESCENT MOON=. Child Poems. (Colored Ill.) $1.25

=SADHANA: THE REALIZATION OF LIFE=. A volume of essays $1.25

All four by Rabindranath Tagore, translated by the author from the
original Bengali.

Rabindranath Tagore is the Hindu poet and preacher to whom the Nobel
Prize was recently awarded....

I would commend these volumes, and especially the one entitled
"Sadhana," the collection of essays, to all intelligent readers. I know
of nothing, except it be Maeterlinck, in the whole modern range of the
literature of the inner life that can compare with them.

There are no preachers nor writers upon spiritual topics, whether in
Europe or America, that have the depth of insight, the quickness of
religious apperception, combined with the intellectual honesty and
scientific clearness of Tagore....

Here is a book from a master, free as the air, with a mind universal as
the sunshine. He writes, of course, from the standpoint of the Hindu.
But, strange to say, his spirit and teaching come nearer to Jesus, as we
find Him in the Gospels, than any modern Christian writer I know.

He does for the average reader what Bergson and Eucken are doing for
scholars; he rescues the soul and its faculties from their enslavement
to logic-chopping. He shows us the way back to Nature and her spiritual
voices.

He rebukes our materialistic, wealth-mad, Western life with the dignity
and authority of one of the old Hebrew prophets....

He opens up the meaning of life. He makes us feel the redeeming fact
that life is tremendous, a worth-while adventure. "Everything has sprung
from immortal life and is vibrating with life. LIFE IS IMMENSE." ...

Tagore is a great human being. His heart is warm with love. His thou