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[Rabindranath Tagore, "Letters to a Friend"; Edited and with two introductory essays by C. F. Andrews, (George Allen and Umvin Ind., 7/8).] There is no better guide to the study of a personality than a series of letters as are these of Rabind ranath Tagore, written to an in- timata and trusted friend. They reveal a character that is noble, and sincere, of great moral and Intellec- tual force, and that has in addition, charm, tenderness, and a sense of humour. Most of us know Tagore es the author of volumes of verses

West, he knows that self-conscious-

SOME MEMOIRS

that is not an organisation of nam tional egoism." It is the loss of those ideals that caused the unhappiness

The public taste for memoirs and of Incidenta ike the Amritsar Riots, of which he writes blography shows no signs of decline, The feeling of humiliation It must be a little difficult to keep about the Anglo-Indian domination up the supply, but the publishers had been growing stronger every do their best and cast their nets day, but the one consolation we had fairly wide, writes Sir Chartres was in our faith in the love of Biron, in "The Observer." Justice of the English people those During the past year some 500 soul had not yet been poisoned by volumes appeared and offered to a that fatal dose of power." But bewildered public a choice ranging even in that painful time here from the memoirs of a Prime pudiates the idea of retaliation or Minister to the recollections of Mr. non-co-operation. "We need co- Houdini, who spent an ingenious, if operation In the sacrifice of love to somewhat futile, existence in escap- prove to our country that she is

ing from voluntary restraintä. – Bə-

and allegorical dramaa, and appre- ours; and then we shall bave thetween these two extremes every side clate the artist, and thinker whom moral right to say to others "We of life la represented, the stage by they shew: fewer, perhaps, realise shall have nothing to do with you Isadors: Duncan, India and the him as mystic, scholar. philosopher, in our affairs, I refuse to Army by "Stalky's Reminiscences," and prophet whose poems are only waste my manhood in lighting the and Sir Walter Lawrence's "The one among his many gifts to the fire of anger and spreading it from India We Served"; literature equal- world. In the letters every elde of house to house "If all the party ly by Mr. Osbert Burdett's portrait the man is shown, and above all of Swaraf felt as their leaders, of The Brownings," and Mr. E. V. shines out the faith wirich informs Chand and Tagore feel our pro- Lucas's affectionate and faithful every action and word of their blems would be easier of solution. book "The Colvins." Mrs. Hardy otie essential Whatever one's private opinion of and Mrs. A. L. Smith both gave as writer. To him the

'Indian affairs may be, no man can biographies of their late husbands, in life is love, a love ao universal as to embrace every creed, race, and deny the nobility, the passionate man remarkable in very different sincerity, and the charity of men of spheres. The past was Illuminated caste, that must enter into every this calibre or fail to appreciate again by new studies of Walter phase of human activity, and must include no particle of gross self- their spirit, while deploring the Rayleigh and Martin Frobisher, seeking. "Life can only find fuifl-nature of things which makes them Bach, Rubens, van Gogh, Montrose, followers who use and the publication for the first time ment through self-sacrifice and suf- dependent on fering," he writes; and again "All them so often as more catspaws for of David Garrick's "Diary and Str George Eltherego's "Letterbook." our payments must be made in their own lesa noble ends,

A particularly attractive trait in Many of the others, it must be con- pain." Like the great mystic of the

the letters is the modesty and sim-feased; were rather poor stuff, and plicity of their tone." Tagore toured | all who meditato such works should Europe and Asia to propagate his take to heart the case of Lord gospel of love and understanding, ¦ Cowper, as described in the eighth and was the object of almost un- and last volume of Mr. Farington's. limited applause and adulation, Diary. "He possesses ability in which he deprecates, even wille he talking of eminent men he Eas values it as a tribute to the lesson known, but is apt to be tedious in he has to give. Never does he recapitulating" to which a friend count it as a personal reward;

remarked, "It is not every man who can be trusted with good memory," and even Farington's would have been none the worse for a little pruning. Even Pepys only fills eight volumes, and the discur- sive R.A. is far from being a Pepys. Still, the last volume is full of in-' tarest, and tells us all about Water- loo at home and abroad, and one story is at any rate new to me. Towards the end the Duke of Well- ington, who had observed Napoleon standing on a platform, sees him come down. "He sees something I do not," was the Duke's observation, "as, indeed, he had, for it was the approaching Prussians," Hence the last and fatal charge.

Rabindranath Tagore

ness is a fatal bar to the soul striv- ing after the perfection of love; and that too fierce a struggle oven for this brings restlessness instead of peace. "Greed is sure to frustrate itself; even the greed after God." He would, like Jullan of Norwich five hundred years ago, "be naught ed to all things that are made, to love and to have God that is un-. mado." for. "the love of persons and even of ideas can be terribly egoistic." He loved Nature as did Wordsworth, at first, for its own sake and for the promise of ever- new beauty held in the loveliness of water or of hills, and, like the English poet, as his mind matured. be learnt to feel that "something far more deeply interfused" which is the immanence of the Divine.

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Throughout the letters the voice of the poet is heard. To Western ears the language may seem some times unnecessarily figurative, occasionally even atilted, but the sentences are rich in happy finages and turns of phrase, and as he so delightfully says himself for most of them are written in the course of his travels, "even poetry is at a disadvantage when the sea is rough, my head is swimming, and the English language is extremely difficult to manage ja a rolling ship.",

The Introductory essays on the Bengal Renaissance, of which Tagore is a leading figure, and on the poet himbili, aka intaresting, as are the comments which form an introduction to the various chapters into which the letters are divided.

“SAKTS ROWE”:

Of contemporary publications, the two volumes of memoirs and re- flections by the late Lord Oxford stand out pre-eminent. Of the many obligations the public is under to Lord Balfour not the least is his "Sald's Bowl"; by Robert Blatch-responsibility revealed in the pre-

ford.]

face for their publication. The This book is a reprinted collection memoirs suffer in part from the fact of Mr. Blatchford's articles contri- that Lord Oxford was unable to bated originally to Sunday papers. complete them. Some of the matter He stil retains in full measure his would appear to have been included rather to fill up the two volumes, gift of making kind fun of people and things, although we must but, on the other hand, an austere confess some of his items dis-discrimination might have rejected Aappointed us. But he has in the some of its most entertaining pass- past given us so much that is good ages. Enough survives to give s and of lasting valuo that strict criticism of tris recent work seems out of place.

He is rich in good bourgeois

strain of deep suffering, the pain of a poet the instrument of the world's moods" and of the dreamer who is called from his dreaming by a voice that urges him into active work that he may spread the faith common sense and his large public that is in him. "I am no fighter.... will still find all those traits which My feet are bleeding, and I make his great popularity. His

breath," he writes: but

picture of a great gentleman, and though little is sald of himself, his wisdom, courage, and almost un- canny magnanimity are revealed In every chapter. His debt to Oxford moment of his life, we are told, was is never forgotten. The proudest

am toiling with panting Arst story "What would you do winning a Balliol scholarship from the City of London School, an

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a mere moral Idea, but a Person....

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I am not free to give myself away" leaves a lot to be desired, and the

he is delightfully told. In the others

achievement which became a family on, knowing that loneli-ha. gives short yarns on many ness and pain are but inns on the topics, from experiences of his habit. Great though his disappoint road to the desired goal, "I must early army days to his speculations ment was to miss the Craven scholarship, his brilliant son, Ray- own this master in me who is not on modern questions.

mond, put that right in the next generation. That Mr. Asquith, The world, he teaches, can only proof-reading does not appear to with all this great qualities, Incked. The following unclaimed telebe brought to happiness by love have been over-careful. Neverthe those which make a good Wer Min- are lying In the E. Ewhich will kill misunderstanding less we welcome this collection from later, finds little support. In the Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong and prejudice, and for this know the pen of an old and practised great crisis he never hesitated.. ledge is necessary, so he has found-craftsman - who has an desured Guest Kremlin, from Iloilo, Oamugityba Myvatehhus, from ed in India a school where sobolare place among the writers of to-day

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