CONTENTS

PART I

1. MY REMINISCENCES


2. Teaching Begins


3. Within and Without
   
   PART II


4. Servocracy


5. The Normal School


6. Versification


7. Various Learning


8. My First Outing


9. Practising Poetry
   
   PART III


10. Srikantha Babu


11. Our Bengali Course Ends


12. The Professor


13. My Father


14. A Journey with my Father


15. At the Himalayas
    
    PART IV


16. My Return


17. Home Studies


18. My Home Environment


19. Literary Companions


20. Publishing


21. Bhanu Singha


22. Patriotism


23. The Bharati
    
    PART V


24. Ahmedabad


25. England


26. Loken Palit


27. The Broken Heart
    
    PART VI


28. European Music


29. Valmiki Pratibha


30. Evening Songs


31. An Essay on Music


32. The River-side


33. More About the Evening Songs


34. Morning Songs
    
    PART VII


35. Rajendrahal Mitra


36. Karwar


37. Nature's Revenge


38. Pictures and Songs


39. An Intervening Period


40. Bankim Chandra
    
    PART VIII


41. The Steamer Hulk


42. Bereavements


43. The Rains and Autumn


44. Sharps and Flats

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Tagore in 1877

The Inner Garden Was My Paradise

The Ganges

Satya

Singing to My Father

The Himalayas

The Servant-Maids in the Verandah

My Eldest Brother

Moonlight

The Ganges Again

Karwar Beach

My Brother Jyotirindra