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 He takes no active part in the daily routine of the school, although sometimes he takes classes in literature and singing, and encourages the boys to bring him their efforts at original work, both in painting, drawing, and poetry. He often spoke to me with enthusiasm and hopefulness of their original work and of the pleasure he felt when they carried their first-fruits to him. In every branch of art he is their inspirer; at the end of each term the boys in general produce and act one of his plays. He himself joins them and takes a part in the play, whatever it may be. When lately was produced by the school, he himself took the part of the King, and his superb rendering of it will long be remembered by those who acted with him and by those who witnessed it."

"Surely," writes the same educationist, "never was there a leader of youth so many-sided in faculty, so apt to answer with encouragement all young attempts in art. No one who has seen the work of the new Calcutta school of painting can doubt that the movement of the young Indian renascence is already well under way. One of the leading spirits of this new school is Abanindranath Tagore, brother of the poet;