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Title: Stories from Tagore

Author: Rabindranath Tagore

Release Date: August 24, 2010 [EBook #33525]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Note:

Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been retained as in
the original.

A few typographical errors have been corrected. A complete list
follows the text.

Words italicized in the original are surrounded by _underscores_.

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STORIES FROM TAGORE

[Illustration]

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

NEW YORK A. BOSTON A. CHICAGO A. DALLAS
ATLANTA A. SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED

LONDON A. BOMBAY A. CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.

TORONTO

Stories from Tagore

New York
The Macmillan Company
1918

_All rights reserved_

Copyright 1916 and 1918
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped. Published, October, 1918

PREFACE

Every experienced teacher must have noticed the difficulty of
instructing Indian children out of books that are specially intended for
use in English schools. It is not merely that the subjects are
unfamiliar, but almost every phrase has English associations that are
strange to Indian ears. The environment in which they are written is
unknown to the Indian school boy and his mind becomes overburdened with
its details which he fails to understand. He cannot give his whole
attention to the language and thus master it quickly.

The present Indian story-book avoids some at least of these impediments.
The surroundings described in it are those of the students' everyday
life; the sentiments and characters are famili