The Birth of New India

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WHEN a popular and versatile author has been writing for over forty years and when she happens to be the world's greatest living orator who has continuously used her magic tongue for the service of her race, any attempt to collect in a volume all writings and speeches, even on a particular theme, is a very hard task indeed.

Mrs. Annie Besant is such a personage. She has been working strenuously in India since 1893, and with her powerful pen and golden voice has contributed greatly in heralding the birth of New India. She has toiled in all the four departments of human activity, not only with energy and enthusiasm but with clockwork regularity and patient perseverance.

In this volume an effort is made to bring together a few of her writings and speeches which have contributed towards that glorious object. It is not possible to bring within the compass of a handy and saleable volume more than we have done. Judicious selection is all å publisher can do in an instance like this, and that we believe we have succeeded in doing.

But the reader must not run away with the idea that this volume will give him full knowledge of the intellectual labours of Mrs. Besant, which almost invariably have brought forth laudable activities and institutions. The reader will herein find the indicative finger for further study of a more detailed character, pertaining to Mrs. Besant's noble work for the Motherland. But we must remind him, once again, that this volume must not be regarded as complete in itself. A few notes on each of the departments will show him what we mean.

Take Political : the reader must peruse How India Wrought for Freedom, India and the Empire, and India -A Nation, already published, as also the numerous pamphlets in the two well known series, the “New India Political Pamphlets" and "The Home Rule Pamphlets"; Mrs. Besant's Congress Speeches are being published in a separate volume, which contains what will be a memorable document, her Congress Presidential Address of 1917.

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