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reminds me ofjSpenser very much. All you said about
the English language~was very interesting."

J. W. WILMSHURST, EDITOR OF c THE SEEKER '

" I am sincerely pleased with the book of sonnets.
I am especially glad to know and to welcome the con-
tents of the volume and to know of their authorship.
My appreciation goes much further than mere literary
approval. I know the inner truth of what the sonnets
strive (so successfully) to express, and in their author
I have no difficulty in recognising a spiritual brother.

" The great, heroic and spiritual love, expressed by
such poets asjMichelangelo and Dante was and is an
eternal reality, and the memory of a higher life in
worlds other than this ; and the Nawab is of this spiri-
tual family, and whether he is fully conscious of it as
yet or not (but probably he is) his admirable sonnet
sequence reveals a new and very striking example of
what I am explaining, i.e., that the highest kind of
love—the unity of spirit —as yet little understood on
earth—belong to the divine immortal life, and began
before this earth existed, and will outlast this earth."

EDWARD MC€URDY
" I have read the book of sonnets that you were so
kind.as to send nie, with very great interest and pleasure.
I should say that English should be considered his
native language; one forgets entirely that he has any
other native speech than ours, so entirely natural is the
idiom.