THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York
Stray Birds
Frontispiece and Decorations by Willy Pogany
12mo, $1.50.
Written during his present visit to America, this book may be said to contain the essence of all Tagore's poetry and philosophy, revealed by many aphorisms, epigrams and sayings.
Here is the kernel of the wisdom and insight of the great Hindu seer in the form of short extracts. These sayings 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.
"Each reflects some aspect of beauty, in thought or in nature, or some of the many-sided philosophical reflections of the author. In one sense these stray birds are tiny prose poems, a fact which makes the dedication of the volume to 'T. Hara, of Yokohama,' peculiarly appropriate, for they all suggest the delicacy and minuteness of Japanese poetry as it is known to us in translation." Philadelphia Public Ledger.
"Pleasing and inspiring." Boston Daily Advertiser.
"His utterances have something of the elusive delicacy of memories of moral experiences out of a remote past." Nation.