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Rama Nama made him so fearless that, later he showed the forty crore Indians and also the whole humanity, the way to live fearlessly. Even at the last moment of his life, Rama Nama was there on his lips.

It was rather impossible for me to hate anyone in this world. My firm belief in God has helped me lead a pious life. For the last forty years, it has been utterly impossible for me to despise anyone. I know I am being boastful, yet I politely insist on it. Wherever a misdeed is committed, I shall be there and condemn it firmly. I really do as I say.

This is the first pictorial biography of Gandhi in which the narrative-concise, readable and incisive is illustrated with contemporary photographs and facsimiles of letters, newspaper reports and cartoons, adding up to a fascinating flash-back on the life of Mahatma Gandhi and the struggle for Indian freedom led by him. There is a skilful matching in this book of text and illustrations, of description and analysis and of concrete detail and large perspective. This pictorial biography will revive many memories in those who have lived through the Gandhian era; it should also be of interest to the post-independence generation.

The satyagraha struggle of the Indians in South Africa lasted eight years. The term satyagraha was invented and employed in connection therewith. I had long entertained a desire to write a history of that struggle myself. Some things only I could write. Only the general who conducts a campaign can know the objective of each particular move. and as this was the first attempt to apply the principle of satyagraha to politics on a large scale, it is necessary any day that the public should have an idea of its development.
—M. K. GANDHI

The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais, which tells of the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel.

Great Stories and poems for children is a collection of most delightful childrens stories.

Harry Castlemon is the pseudoname of Charles Austin Fosdick. His series of adventure and action written for boys got famous in the 19th century. The present book is story of George Ackerman, who is a sturdy, broad-shouldered youth, about fifteen years of age. He was one of the boys introduced in the concluding volume of the “Boy Trapper Series,” who was known for his adventures and exploits. We find him now at his home in Texas, sitting on the porch in front of the house in which he lived, busily engaged in mending a broken bridle with an awl and a piece of waxed-end.

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The request to provide a concise account of German romanticism for the collection “From the world of nature and the mind”, seeks the following attempt to do their utmost. Within the prescribed narrow limits, the whole richness of romantic thought and poetry could not be manifested. Research in this field is so zealously active at the moment that contrasts of scientific observation have been manifold. To substantiate the point of view which the author takes, much more detail had to be expounded than was good for the economy of the book. In the course of time, it is true that the image of Romanticism is executed here more in terms of the intellectual than the artistic-creative side, As much has been said of the theoretical views of early Romanticism as of the poetic achievements of the younger Romantics, so grateful would be the reverse procedure, especially in the case of a dispute that turns to wider circles. Yet, in the field of Romanticism, the problem of the moment may first lie in the task of drawing the lines of communication that extend from the very beginning to the last foothills. The in-depth consideration of early romanticism given to us in recent decades has given a new appreciation to the older Romantic generation, making it considerably more valuable than was previously thought. At the same time, the gap that exists between her and her younger comrades seemed to grow into something unmistakable. Today there is a danger that the concept of Romanticism will not fall into disrepair at all, and that in the future only disjointed representatives of German intellectual life and German art will speak in the age of 1795-1830. It is the author’s conviction that a purposeless work of destruction would be accomplished in such division and separation. As he himself sees it, it seeks[S. vi]he at least hint at it here. The attempt to draw the main features of the early Romantic view of life and the arts occupies most of the explanations; but it is only intended to serve as a basis for the discussion of the problem of how the rich ideas of early Romanticism give rise to the artistic formations of the younger Romantic period. Hopefully, what romantic poetry has created on its own and without the help of theory will not be neglected. The idea on which the whole presentation rests is considered from another point of view in the essay “Goethe and the problem of Faustian nature” (International Weekly 1908, No. 35). To draw lines of development was quite attempted.

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A comedy play by the renowned playwright George Bernard Shaw, ‘

Long as you said it was, Sally!” Thelma sobbed, as grieved for the loss of illusion as for the loss of her treasure. “I reckon I’m plumb foolish to go on play-acting all the time,” Sally Ford said dully. The three little girls and the 16-year-old “mother” of them scrubbed in silence for several minutes, doggedly hurrying to make up for lost time. Then Thelma, who could never nurse grief or anger, spoke cheerfully: “Reckon the new kid’s gettin’ her phys’cal zamination. When I come into the ‘sylum you had to nearly

An integration of two words, ‘Git’ and ‘Anjali,’ meaning song and offering respectively, the literal meaning of the word is ‘offering of songs.’ and because of the strong devotional tone and subliminal spiritual incitation, the book can be said to have devotion to god as its theme. It highlights the poet’s intense response to the magnificence of the universe or rather an affirmation of life with all its abundance, mystery and diversity.

This is a wonderful collection of Lafcadio Hearn’s essays on Buddhism, Japan, and Japanese folklore. Chapters include: A Living God; Out Of The Street; Notes Of A Trip To Kyôto; Dust; About Faces In Japanese Art; Ningyô-No-Haka; In Ôsaka; Buddhist Allusions In Japanese Folk-Song; Nirvana, A Study In Synthetic Buddhism; The Rebirth Of Katsugorô; and, Within The Circle.

The other fellows, he said, might make idiots of themselves if they liked, he should stop in and read; for Dr Bewley, DD, Principal of the world-famed establishment—a grey, handsome, elderly gentleman in the truest sense of the word—had smilingly said after grace at breakfast that when he was a boy he used to take a great deal of interest in natural history, and that he presumed his pupils would feel much the same as he did, and would have no objection to setting aside their classical and mathematical studies for the morning and watching the entrance of the procession when it entered the town at twelve o’clock.

The boys, who were all standing and waiting for the Doctor to leave the dining-hall, gave a hearty cheer at this; and as the ragged volley died out, after being unduly prolonged by the younger pupils, instead of crossing to the door from the table, the Doctor continued, turning to the mathematical master:

The clangor of the swords had died away, the shouting of the slaughter was hushed; silence lay on the red-stained snow. The pale bleak sun that glittered so blindingly from the ice-fields and the snow-covered plains struck sheens of silver from rent corselet and broken blade, where the dead lay in heaps. The nerveless hand yet gripped the broken hilt: helmeted heads, back-drawn in the death throes, tilted red beards and golden beards grimly upward, as if in last invocation to Ymir the frost-giant.

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“Who is the new girl in the class?” asked Miriam Nesbit, flashing her black eyes from one schoolmate to another, as the girls assembled in the locker room of the Oakdale High School.

“Her name is Pierson; that is all I know about her,” replied Nora O’Malley, gazing at her pretty Irish face in the looking glass with secret satisfaction. “She’s very quiet and shy and looks as if she would weep aloud when her turn comes to recite, but I’m sure she’s all right,” she added good naturedly. For Nora had a charming, sunny nature, and always saw the best if there was any best to see.

“She is very bright,” broke in Grace Harlowe decisively. “She went through her Latin lesson without a mistake, which is certainly more than I could do.”

“Well, I don’t like her,” pouted Miriam. “I never trust those quiet little things. And, besides, she is the worst-dressed girl in——”

In “Grace Harlowe’s Sophomore Year at High School” the interest of the story was centered around the series of basketball games played by the sophomore and junior classes for the High School championship. In this volume was narrated the efforts of Miriam Nesbit, aided by Julia Crosby, the disagreeable junior captain, to discredit Anne, and force Grace to resign the captaincy of her team. The rescue of Julia by Grace from drowning during a skating party served to bring about a reconciliation between the two girls and clear Anne’s name of the suspicion resting upon it. The two classes, formerly at sword’s points, became friendly, and buried the hatchet, although Miriam Nesbit, still bitterly jealous of Grace’s popularity, planned a revenge upon Grace that nearly resulted in making her miss playing on her team during the deciding game. Grace’s encounter with an escaped lunatic, David Nesbit’s trial flight in his aeroplane, were incidents that also held the undivided attention of the reader.

“Anne, you will never learn to do a side vault that way. Let me show you,” exclaimed Grace Harlowe.

The gymnasium was full of High School girls, and a very busy and interesting picture they made, running, leaping, vaulting, passing the medicine ball and practising on the rings.

In one corner a class was in progress, the physical culture instructor calling out her orders like an officer on parade.

The four girl chums had grown somewhat taller than when last seen. A rich summer-vacation tan had browned their faces and Nora O’Malley’s tip-tilted Irish nose was dotted with freckles. All four were dressed in gymnasium suits of dark blue and across the front of each blouse in letters of sky-blue were the initials “O.H.S.S.” which stood for “Oakdale High School Sophomore.” They were rather proud of these initials, perhaps because the lettering was still too recent to have lost its novelty.