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Mahatma Gandhi by Romain Rolland, Translated by Catherine D. Groth. New York: The Century...
...Romain Rolland has lately written a biography which interprets the spirit of the East in terms of Western ideas. He has described the life and teachings of the man "who has introduced into human politics the strongest religious impetus of the last two thousand years." He has expounded the religion of Mahatma Gandhi, and has made it clear, logical, plausible to western minds. He has made the man, and his influence, and the mysterious, sensitive fire of his spirit lives before us. At his touch the cryptic teaching of the new Messiah of India has unfolded...
...Romain Rolland has written a "three-dimensional biography" such as Carlyle tried to write. Besides giving the narrative of time, and the description of place, he has indicated the spirit of India which is the setting, and the powerful practical idealism of the prophet himself. He has come as near as is humanly possible to a four-dimensional biography. He himself has caught some of the quiet fire of sincerity, of the devotion to practical idealism which is in the soul of Gandhi. Mr. Rolland has the power belonging to mystics of the utmost lucidity of expression...
...Romain Rolland is writing the first biography of Mahatma Gandhi--the man who has stirred three hundred million people to revolt, shaken the foundation of the British Empire and introduced into human politics the greatest religious impetus in the last 2000 years. This biography will be published in The Century Magazine beginning with the December number...
...Montespan" is a three-act drama written about twenty years ago by Romain Rolland, and only recently translated into English by Miss-Helena Van Brugh de Kay, with an introduction by the author for American readers. This introduction is not the least interesting part of the volume. Short as it is, it contains a vigorous, damaging deunuciation of the so-called "classic" ages, with one of which, the reign of Louis XIV, the play itself is concerned. "Epochs of prey", M. Rolland describes them, "a pack of hounds with blind instincts, always straining to escape from the huntsman's leash...