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 The Cycle of Spring : A Play Cloth, i2mo, $1.25 Leather, $1.75 This, the latest and richest of the author's plays, was recently performed in the courtyard of his Calcutta home by the masters and boys of Shantiniketan. The success was immense: and naturally, for the spirit of the play is the spirit of universal youth, filled with laughter and lyric fervour, jest and pathos and resur- gence: immortal youth whose every death is a rebirth, every winter an enfolded spring. "All the joy, the buoyancy, the resilience, the indomitable and irrepressible hopefulness of Youth are compacted in the lines of the play. The keynote is sounded, with subtle symbolism, in the Prelude, in which the King ranks above all matters of State or of Humanity the circumstances that two gray hairs had made their appearance behind the ear that morning. . . . Dramatic power, philosophy, and lyric charm are brilliantly blended in a work of art that has the freshness and the promise of its theme." New York Tribune. "A more beautiful play than 'The Cycle of Spring,' by Sir Rabindranath Tagore, it would be hard to find in all literature. It embodies the spirit of youth, and one can almost hear in it the laughter of the eternally young. . . . Not only the glamour of the Orient but the breath of Undying Youth is in this work of Tagore, a genius so peculiar to India, so utterly inartificial, so completely of imagination all compact that his colossal power begotten of Fairyland and the World of Visions makes us poor Occidentals look very small indeed." Rochester Post Express. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York