[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sin,—The recent visit to this country of the poet Rabindranath Tagore has been welcomed by all who value sympathetic and cultural relations between East and West. He is himself the most distinguished representative of Indian culture in the literature of our day, and his life work—the founding of the International University at Santiniketan—has been an embodiment of the desire which lie expressed some years ago " that the mind of India should -join its forces to the great movement of mind which is in the present-day world." Of the University he says : " We invite students and scholars from different parts of the world to an Indian University, to meet there our own students and scholars in a spirit of collaboration."
We are sure that there are many who, like ourselves, feel that a debt of gratitude is owing to him, and would be glad of an opportunity to express this in a practical way by helping the work of the University. With this object a fund is being raised, to which all well-wishers of the work done at Santini- ketan are invited to contribute. It is hoped that the fund may be completed before the poet returns to India. Contri- butions should he sent to the lion. Treasurer, R. 0. Mennell, Loden Law, Henley, Surrey.--We are, Sir, &c.,
A. M. DANIEI., S. MAROF.RY FRY. LAURENCF.
HOUSMAN, A. D. LINDSAY, JOHN MASEFIELD, MARIAN E. PARMOOR, WILLIAM ROTHEN- STEIN, MICHAEL E. SADLER, C. P. SCOTT, R. H. L. SHEPPARD, EDWD. J. THOMPSON, EVELYN UNDERHILL, EVELYN WRENCH, FRANCIS YOUNGIIUSBAND.
[This initiative, in our opinion, deserves the widest support. —En. Spectator.]
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