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not a little to revive it. I consider your prose to be
greater than your poetry."

"It is^extremely interesting and full of food for
thought. You may find that it will not have such a
small circulation after all......"

LADY TASKER

" I like reading poetry slowly, and not all at a gulp.
I love the-prologue to the ' Death of Socrates/ It ex-
presses such a big truth so simply. Each of the poems
is very fine, and the lines flow along in beautiful rhythm.
I am sure these are some of the poems that you have told
me about, as coming to you easily, without effort,—
from a subconscious rnind perhaps."

SIR DUNCAN MACKENZIE

" From the very cursory glimpse which is all that
I have hitherto had time for, it looks emphatically as if it
would be a welcome refuge from ' much study ' which,
in the words of Sulaiman-i-Adil, is undoubtedly ' a
weariness of the flesh.' "

PROFESSOR S. RAMKRISHNA IYER
" Like the meditations of the philosophical Roman
Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who justly * scorned delights
and lived laborious days' yours is at once original,
diverting, refreshing and edifying. At moments of
dejection, your ' Morning Thoughts ' brings me solace."