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 thoughts are pure and high as the galaxy. (Copyright, 1913, by Frank Crane.) Reprinted by permission from the _New York Globe_, Dec. 18, 1913. * * * * * PUBLISHED BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York * * * * * +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Notes: | | | | Page 49: One instance of Govinda and one instance of | | Gobinda: discrepancy retained | | Page 53: Hindusthani _sic_ ("Hindustani" | | _sic_ in Footnote 50.) | | Page 137: Closing quotes added after "...Singha;" | | Page 179: appetities amended to appetites | | Page 196: muscial amended to musical | | Page 219: Himayalas amended to Himalayas | | Page 235: cardamum _sic_ | | Page 236: casuarianas amended to casuarinas | | Page 270: cooes _sic_ | | Advertisements at close of book (unpaginated): | | transcendently _sic_ and Gitangali _sic_ | | | | Footnote 50 had a double reference in the original text, | | which has been retained here. | | | | Small discrepancies such as capitalisation between the | | List of Illustrations and the illustration captions have | | been retained. | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation has been retained. | | | | Inconsistent spelling of colours/colors has been retained. | | | | Sanskrit and Sanscrit are used interchangeably in the | | original. |