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DAILY MAIL.—"Flowers as fresh as sunrise… One cannot tell what they have lost in the translation, but as they stand they are of extreme beauty... They are simple, exalted, fragrant—episodes and incidents of every day transposed to faery."

DAILY NEWS.—"The verses in this book are far finer and more genuine than even the best in Gitanjali."

OBSERVER.—"Mr. Tagore does not in his poetry set the themes of life to great music; he speaks them in a soft voice to the heart with all the simplicity and directness in his power. He takes the little intimate things which comprise life and fashions them into pearls which reflect the colour of the sky, the mightiness of love and life. He has vision ; he has intelligence :n love, the last test of a man's nature."

PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"No one can read it without a sense of the original music in his ear, and we have a very genuine curiosity to hear Mr. Tagore recite the authentic Bengali versions which he has rendered himself so delicately in this fresh and truly poetic book."