CONTENTS

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[Translator's Preface][v]
PART I
[1.][1]
[2.] Teaching Begins[3]
[3.] Within and Without[8]
PART II
[4.] Servocracy[25]
[5.] The Normal School[30]
[6.] Versification[35]
[7.] Various Learning[38]
[8.] My First Outing[44]
[9.] Practising Poetry[48]
PART III
[10.] Srikantha Babu[53]
[11.] Our Bengali Course Ends[57]
[12.] The Professor[60]
[13.] My Father[67]
[14.] A Journey with my Father[76]
[15.] At the Himalayas[89]
PART IV
[16.] My Return[101]
[17.] Home Studies[111]
[18.] My Home Environment[116]
[19.] Literary Companions[125]
[20.] Publishing[133]
[21.] Bhanu Singha[135]
[22.] Patriotism[138]
[23.] The Bharati[147]
PART V
[24.] Ahmedabad[155]
[25.] England[157]
[26.] Loken Palit[175]
[27.] The Broken Heart[177]
PART VI
[28.] European Music[189]
[29.] Valmiki Pratibha[192]
[30.] Evening Songs[199]
[31.] An Essay on Music[203]
[32.] The River-side[207]
[33.] More About the Evening Songs[210]
[34.] Morning Songs[214]
PART VII
[35.] Rajendrahal Mitra[231]
[36.] Karwar[235]
[37.] Nature's Revenge[238]
[38.] Pictures and Songs[241]
[39.] An Intervening Period[244]
[40.] Bankim Chandra[247]
PART VIII
[41.] The Steamer Hulk[255]
[42.] Bereavements[257]
[43.] The Rains and Autumn[264]
[44.] Sharps and Flats[267]


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Rabindranath Tagore from the Portrait by S. K. Hesh[Frontispiece]
Facing Page
Tagore in 1877[6]
The Inner Garden Was My Paradise[14]
The Ganges[54]
Satya[64]
Singing to My Father[82]
The Himalayas[94]
The Servant-Maids in the Verandah[106]
My Eldest Brother[120]
Moonlight[180]
The Ganges Again[208]
Karwar Beach[236]
My Brother Jyotirindra[256]

PART I