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Again,

" I am delighted to receive your letter and the gift
of your two books—Sonnets and Rudel of Blaye.

" They have set me dreaming. What chances and
changes life brings ! You might have written poem
after poem and anticipated Rabindranath Tagore, if
you had not been caught in the net of circumstances and
dealt daily with other matters."

" Here are a few choice morsels from the soul of one
who has played many worthy parts in life, but none
worthie'r than of a practical man who finds peace in
poetry, wealth in the stores of History and Imagination,
consolation in the message of Religion and serene beauty
in the personality and mysticism of the Preacher of
Islam,

That the Holy places of Arabia should inspire so
sensitive a nature was to be expected. That he should
clothe his thoughts in choice and faultless English, and
present them to the modern youth of Islam in India, is
the good fortune of the modern youth of Islam in India."

*••••••••

" c The Death of Socrates ' is a gem—a cup of cream
out of Plato's ' Crito' and c Phaedo."

SIR STUART FRASER.
" It is not everyone, I may say, who—even if he can
compose a sonnet—can write so charmingly to a friend,
picking up the threads as if we were conversing face to
face five years ago/'