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GLOBE.—"In The Crescent Moon Rabindranath Tagore offers a revelation more profound and more subtle than that in the Gitanjali. He opens to us the child-mind... His revelation of the child-mind is richer, more complete, more convincing than any of which we have had previous knowledge... The poems depict every phase of the child's imagination. Their richness and beauty will be sufficiently obvious from the exam pies we have given, and these qualities are even more apparent when the poet turns from childhood itself to gaze upon the motherhood which enfolds it."

OBSERVER.—Every one who knows—and who does not?—the sensitive delicacy and strength of Mr. Tagore's mind and work will realise how delightful must be his poems about children. They are. They have a singular fragrance and beauty of their own."