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MASHI
AND OTHER STORIES

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WORKS BY

SIR RABINDRANATH TAGORE

GITANJALI (Song Offerings). Translated by the Author. With an Introduction by W. B. Yeats and a Portrait by W. Rothenstein.

FRUIT-GATHERING. A Sequel to "Gitanjali."

STRAY BIRDS. Poems.

THE GARDENER. Lyrics of Love and Life. Translated by the Author. With Portrait.

THE CRESCENT MOON. Child-Poems. Translated by the Author. With 8 Illustrations in Colour.

LOVER'S GIFT AND CROSSING.

CHITRA. A Play. Translated by the Author.

THE KING OF THE DARK CHAMBER. A Play. Translated by Kshitish Chandra Sen.

THE POST OFFICE. A Play. Translated by Devabrata Mukerjea.

THE CYCLE OF SPRING. A Play.

SACRIFICE AND OTHER PLAYS.

HUNGRY STONES AND OTHER STORIES.

MASHI AND OTHER STORIES.

PERSONALITY: Lectures delivered in America. With Illustrations.

MY REMINISCENCES. By Sir Rabindranath Tagore. Illustrated.

NATIONALISM.

SADHANA: The Realisation of Life. Lectures.

POEMS OF KABIR. Translated by Sir Rabindranath Tagore. Assisted by Evelyn Underhill.

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MASHI

AND OTHER STORIES

BY
Sir RABINDRANATH TAGORE

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL BENGALI
BY VARIOUS WRITERS

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1918

Copyright, 1918
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1918.

CONTENTS
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Mashi • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •		3
The Skeleton • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •		31
The Auspicious Vision • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •		49
The Supreme Night • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •		61
Raja and Rani • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •		77
The Trust Property • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •		87
The Riddle Solved • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •		107
The Elder Sister • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •		123
Subha • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •		145
The Postmaster • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •		159
The River Stairs • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •		173
The Castaway • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •		185
Saved • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •		207
My Fair Neighbour • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •		215

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THE following pages contain advertisements of books by the same author.

Lover’s Gift and Crossing

By Sir RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Ready shortly.

Here are brought together Sir Rabindranath Tagore’s latest poems. The work is divided into two parts. It is really, in fact, two volumes in one. The first is entitled Lover’s Gift and the second Crossing. It is again the poet of Gitanjali and of Fruit Gathering that speaks in this book; an artist of rare lyrical powers, who understands the human soul.

“Tagore’s poems are devotions—mystical, sublimated ecstasy, in which the brutalized passions of the world have no place or being. . . . They are the thoughts of a seer—the perfect union of beauty and truth in poetry.”

—Review of Reviews.

Sacrifice and Other Plays

Including Sanyasi, or the Ascetic, Malini, Sacrifice, and The King and the Queen

Cloth, $1.50; leather, $1.75

Cast in dramatic form, these plays are intended for the reading public rather than for stage presentation. The scenes are laid in India with native characters. The underlying motive of each is the seeking of the real amid the unreal–whether love as it appeared to the awakened sense of the ascetic; or the vision of the soul, piercing the shams of the priest to the preception of Deity. That the qualities of Sir Rabindranath Tagore’s literary genius well fit him for the writing of plays, his published books have already demonstrated.

My Reminiscences
With frontispiece from the portrait in colors by Sasi Kumar Hesh, and other illustrations

Cloth, 12mo, $1.50; leather, $2.00

“We are taken into his very bosom, and are permitted to watch the processes of the development of his mental and spiritual natures, and thus acquire such understanding and ability to appreciate his writings as could be got in no other way. If there are–as we suspect–those who are at a loss to interpret for themselves the meaning of Sir Rabindranath Tagore’s poems, dramas, essays, and what not, they are advised to read this most interesting volume. It will serve as a key to and an illumination of his other works, besides well repaying perusal for its own sake.”–New York Tribune.

Gitanjali: Song Offering

Cloth, $1.25; leather, $1.75

“Mr. Tagore’s translations are of trance-like beauty.”

–The London Athenæum.

“These poems are representative of the highest degree of culture, and yet instinct with the simplicity and directness of the dweller on the soil.”–New York Sun.

“…it is the essence of all poetry of East and West alike–the language of the soul.”–The Indian Magazine and Review.

Songs of Kabir

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“Wonderfully graphic, conveying the universal thought of the Hindu poet, yet retaining mystic Eastern symbolism in expressing it.”–Baltimore Sun.

“The trend of Mr. Tagore’s mystical genius makes him a peculiarly sympathetic interpreter of Kabir’s vision and thought, and the book is perhaps one of the most important which that famous Hindu has introduced to the western world.”–Hartford Post.

Personality

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An interesting series of lectures among which are “What is Art?” “Meditation,” “My School,” “The Second Birth” and “The World of Personality.”

The Cycle of Spring

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Tagore represents a rare development of dramatic genius, one peculiarly Indian in character. In his plays there is little striving after ordinary stage effects, no bid for a curtain, no holding up of the moment of suspense, in order to force a sensation with which we are so familiar on our American stage. He attains a naturalness of style, a simplicity of mode, a ﬂuidity of movement, which is congenially inﬂuenced by the musical affinity of his themes and the leisurely drama of the open air and the courtyard.

Nationalism

$1.25

A series of lectures consisting of “Nationalism in the West,” “Nationalism in Japan,” “Nationalism in India.”

Stray Birds

Cloth, 12mo, $1.50

Frontispiece in color and decorations by Willy Pogany

Here is the kernel of the wisdom and insight of the great Hindu seer in the form of short extracts. These sayings are largely taken from his other works, and are the essence of his Eastern message to the Western world. The frontispiece and decorations by Willy Pogany are beautiful in themselves and enhance the spiritual signiﬁcance of this extraordinary book.

Fruit Gathering

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“Tagore shows us a shining pathway up which we can conﬁdentially travel to those regions of wisdom and experience which consciously or unconsciously we try to reach.”—Boston Transcript.

The Hungry Stones and Other Stories

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“These short stories furnish a double guarantee of the Hindu Nobel Prize winner’s rightful place among the notable literary ﬁgures of our time.”—New York Globe.

“Imagination, charm of style, poetry, and depth of feeling Without gloominess, characterize this volume of stories of the Eastern poet.”—Boston Transcript.

Chitra: A Play in One Act

Cloth, $1.00; leather $1.75

“He has given us the soul of the East disembodied of its sensuality, and within it shines the most perfect tribute to true womanhood and its claims.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

“The play is told with the simplicity and wonder of imagery always characteristic of Rabindranath Tagore.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

The Crescent Moon: Child Poems

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“Comes closest to life as we know it and to the spirit of the West. . . . We can accept his lyrics of children in full comprehension of their worth, even though we have few poets who speak with such understanding.”—The Outlook.

“Tagore is probably the greatest living poet, and this book of child poems has the bloom of all young life upon it faithfully transcribed by genius.”—Metropolitan.

The Gardener

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“The very stuff of imagination. . . . Their beauty is as delicate as the reﬂection of the color of a ﬂower.”—Westminster Gazette.

“The verses in this book are far ﬁner and more genuine than even the best in ‘Gitanjali.’”—The Daily News (London).

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