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e_. "Exotic fragrance." _Chicago Daily News_. "The songs have the quality of universality--the greatest quality which poetry can possess." _Chicago Tribune_. "As perfect in form as they are beautiful and poignant in content." _The Athenaeum, London_. "Nothing richer nor sweeter.... Something of Omar Khayyam and something of Rabbi ben Ezra, expressed more at length and more mystically. In smoothly flowing rhythms, with vivid little pictures of life's activities, the poet sings of old age, the fruit gathering time, its sadness and its glory, its advantages and its sorrows." _The Boston Globe_. * * * * * THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York =The Post Office= Cloth, 12mo, $1.00; leather, $1.75. "... filled with tender pathos and spiritual beauty. There are two acts, and the story is that of a frail little Indian lad condemned to seclusion and inaction by ill health. He makes a new world for himself, however, by his imagination and insatiable curiosity, and the passersby bring the world of action to him. The play has been presented in England by the Irish Players, and fully adapts itself to the charming simplicity and charm which are their principal characteristics." _Phila. Public Ledger_. "A beautiful and appealing piece of dramatic work." _Boston Transcript_. "Once more Tagore demonstrates the universality of his genius; once more he shows how art and true feeling know no racial and no religious lines." _Kentucky Post_. "One reads in 'The Post Office' his own will of symbolism. Simplicity and a pervading, appealing pathos are the qualities transmitted to its lines by the poet." _N. Y. World_. "He writes from his soul; there is neither bombast nor didacticism. His poems bring one to the quiet places where the soul speaks to the soul surely but serenely." _N. Y. American_. * * * * * PUBLISHED BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York =The King of the Dark Chamber= By RABINDRANATH TAGORE Nobel Prizeman in Literature, 1913; Author of "Gitangali," "The Gardener," "The Crescent Moon," "Sadhana," "Chitra," "The Post-Office," etc. Cloth 12 mo, $1.25; leather, $1.75. "The real poetical imagination of it is unchangeable; the allegory, subtle and profound and yet simple, is cast into the form of a dramatic narrative, which moves with unconventional freedom to a
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