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 11 India to Britain has been printed twice by mistake at page 289 of the book. Throughout his life the poet was averse to the publication of his works in a collected form. It was only during the last few months of his life that he betrayed a strong keenness for it. With his approaching end his keenness became a burning impatience, and it is some satisfaction to me that before his death I was able to place in his hands the first 64 printed pages of the book which'he only felt, for alas! he had lost his eyesight. My thanks are due to Babu Jogesh Chandra Dutt of the Wellington Street Dutts for allowing free access to old files of the Mookherjee's Magazine and of the Reis and Ryet from which some of the pieces have been taken, to Babu Ramendra Krishna Ghose, the youngest son of the poet, for supplying me with materials for the memoir and also to Babu Pasupati Nath Mallick for going through the proofs and helping me generally. The poet, besides the pseudonym of Ram Sharma, occasionally assumed other pen-names such as, Lakshman Sharma, Ram Sham Yogi and many others; and some- times he took the liberty of using the initials of his friends Sir Jatindra Mohan Tagore, Babu Kristodas Paul and Babu Yogesh Chandra Dutt. The arrangement of the poems is chronological with only a few exceptions. THE EDITOR. 69, SERPENTINE LANE, Calcutta, 1st January, 1919.