wide circles in Britain the news of the death of Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet, dramatist and social reformer, has been learned with profound gue!
For several days" successively less hopeful bulletins had prepared the British public for the passing of India's great and honoured sage.
He will always be remembered in England, where he enjoyed the greatest esteem of all who care for letters and philosophy as one of the most distinguished int tellectual leaders of our time, ann, een lh the, me conferred a uring 9 Jeeture four of the United od upon lin.
states early dri 1032 he Was accorded Beh oleo nota a Ree Swarm welcome at Wale University Shorty atier his return to India he dew from Caleulia" fo Teheran Where he was received in audience ott wu sent ena roe oh ext World Wide Accisim the great figure who has just passed Basi naaie ie wan Bole eRe haet tate Memorial meetings to pay a last tribute to one. of the nobles and finest personalities modern India, has produced will be, held in England ext week, when due expression will given to the feelings of sympathy felt" by English leaders "and lovers of thought and art and Yetters with fie family of one upon whom world.
honours Were showered but whom Worldly, things left untouched.
The "Tagore Society" in' London, through its joing secretaries, Mess P.B, Seal and B. B Ray Chaudhur has sent a message of condolence fo" sand Niketan, Bengal, on the death of Tagore.
"Togore's death "is a great Joss to the, wend and the greatest loss to condolence meeting to be held cable says, London mest week is expected £0 Be addressed by Bernard Shaw, Wells, J.B. "Priestly and Aldous Huxley.
dis Last Message inthe West to preserve, the wort of civilisation "and dignity of yuan Which. they "had taken centuries to bulla up weighs tke a nightmare on my mind." Is seems clear to me that. this failure is due to men's repudia. lon of moral values inthe. guidance of their national affairs, and'to their belief that everything is determined by a mere Physical chain of events. 'The 'Ars experiment in this diabolical faith' Was launched In "Manchuria: 'Those who built their power on moral cynicism are themselves proving. its victims. "Nemesis Is daily' proving more. ruthless, 'Tagore' was' 80 years of age. He belonged to the family "of 'Tagore. well-known' inthe literary, arwstic and social life of Caleulia,. When he Was about 24°years of age he started {o"conteibute articles to the vernacu-
In May, 1936, on his 75th birthday Tagore received mastaxes of con Eraulation from all over the world, Scelalming his work "as matist, novelist polileal Social reformer and religious cher. sipelas in the summer "of 103%, "He fell dangerously iL with ery.
made a food' recovery.
'The, Japanese invasion, of Ching stirred him deeely. and' in' October, 1884, he issued a broadcast message io. his® fellow-indians condemning. She barbarity of Japanese militarists in their dealings with China."
To the Japanese post Yone Nagucht he "sent "a dignified but Botanans, "Seba of ite Sapanese omnes Of defeneetees Chinese, "At the age of 71 Tagore suddenly bran to Dalat and anvexhibition of his pieteres. was held in London. December, 1038. They were strange Tanastle sketches, leas Of any given subject than -as It Were, the random musings of @ poctle mind Jotked down fon paper. Two of obese sketches are the possession of the Boroush of
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.