The New Review June 1942

In fact it is not the banner of the 'West' which they are unfolding but that of a new future comprising the East and the West against a traditionalism either of the East or of the West. [...] Western Romantic art has in this crisis of industrial materialism saved itself into the simplicity the 'idealism' and the mystit exaltation of the Gothic Middle Ages ; the Romanticism of the Bengal School has sought a similar port of reftige in the simplicity of village life 452 THE NEW REVIEW the spiritualism of its glorious classic tradition and the mystic experience of its old rishis and sufis [...] For the meaning of the IMO appreciative study of the great arts of the past is not to offer authoritative models' to be imitated and varied by the artist ; it is the very opposite namely. [...] The other book is a general history of human art seen in the perspective and in the inteconnections of Indian culture on the basis of the reseaches of the last decades. [...] He keeps all the boDks arranges the place and time for auctions collects the subscriptions from the members and every month pays the money to the member to whom it is due ; and if a member happens to drop out before the end of the term the foreman has to find a substitute for the member who has defaulted.