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xiv aid of their Indian and other contributors, and in particular the writer's thanks are due to the Rev. C. F. Andrews and Mr. Kalimohun Ghose of Shanti Niketan, Dr. Seal of Calcutta University, Mr. G. Bose, Mr. Dinesh Chandra Sen, Dr. Coomaraswami, and Mr. R. Ranjan Sen. Also to Mr. William Rothenstein and Mr. W. B. Yeats for biographical and critical memoranda, "G. R." for contributions to various chapters, Mr. E. B. Havell for invaluable help in revising the proofs, Mr. A. H. Fox Strangways for information about Indian music, and the India Society for copies of its publications.

It is hardly necessary to add anything about the honour rendered the poet by the Nobel Prize award, imless to say that it was due to a distinguished Swedish Orientalist who had read the poems in Bengali before they appeared in English. India greatly appreciated the honour; as for the author himself, he was at first over-whelmed by the publicity it brought: "They have taken away my shelter," he wrote. November 1914.