The Light of the World is an interesting departure for an author so strongly associated with his Indian works that one of his poetry collections required the ungainly title Poems, National and Non-Oriental . The other depicts a pleasant afternoon in New Haven, with couples strolling through the Green. Visible off to one side, standing proudly alone amidst trees and wide-open space, is the building that now serves as the gateway to Yale's Old Campus quadrangle. Gilt spine extra with red leather title label. Inside dentelles over attractive black, white, and gold endpapers.
All edges gilt, with double fore-edge paintings.
All in all, a lovely book. Scientific Americana . Connecticut Academy of the Arts and Sciences. The act to incorporate the Academy is present and followed by a list of the members, many of whom played prominent roles in the history of YALE University. Common in microform, rare in print .