The Sketches published in this Volume were written from time for the periodical press and do not pretend to be in any sense an exhaustive study of all sides of the persons with whom they deal. This insufficiency will be specially noticed in the Sketches of the two most eminent of the leaders of Indian thought treated here namely, Mr. Tilak and Sir Rabindra Nath. Both the Sketches were written at the call of particular occasions, and do not, therefore, present their subjects, in all their aspects. To remove this defect, I would have to entirely rewrite these Sketches, which was not feasible and would not fit in with the limited scope of the present Volume.