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SIR AKBAR HYDARI, P.C.

" Your ' Morning Thoughts ' reflect with succinct-
ness and lucidity a philosophy of life with which I pro-
foundly agree, but which, alas, I have neither the time
nor the literary ability to express nor the strength to
practise.

I hope that the contemplative life to which you have,
as a poet, instinctively turned will be productive of verse
and prose revealing the attainment of that tranquillity
your spirit seeks."

RAJA BAHADUR KRISHNAMACHARI

"It is a mixture of religion, philosophy, morality
rules of social conduct as well as everything that ought
to interest a man who really appreciates that human
life is the greatest gift that God could give to any body
and it would be a wicked sin not to take advantage of it.''

SIR MICHAEL O'DwYER ON * To ENGLAND, 1938 *
" Since Kipling's c Recessional' I have read nothing
which thrilled me so much by its genuine patriotism,
its noble sentiments and its felicity of language.
The sentiments to which it gives expression are
particularly apposite at the present time when greedy
materialism and brute force are so rampant displacing
the old heroic and chivalrous feelings of the Age of Faith
which shed a lustre on Christianity and Islam when
Salauddin and Coeur de Lion were magnanimous
opponents. "